(Halifax, N.S.) - Dalhousie University Director of Varsity Athletics Tim Maloney is pleased to announce that Tigers women’s basketball head coach Anna Stammberger’s contract has been extended through to the 2020-21 season.

Stammberger just completed her seventh season as head coach and in that time she has led the Tigers to six AUS championship appearances and was named the AUS coach of the year in the 2014-15 season.

“We are delighted to announce that Anna will continue to lead our women’s basketball program,” says Maloney.  “She is an integral part of our team and her leadership is incredibly valued on and off campus.”

After six years as a teacher, coach and athletic director at Kensington Intermediate Senior High School in Prince Edward Island, Stammberger took over the women’s basketball team when Dr. Carolyn Savoy retired in 2009. Before that, she spent eight years as the head coach of Club BG Rentrop of Germany’s first division league. She was also as assistant coach with the Tigers for two season after graduation.

A standout player for the Tigers (1978-1983), Stammberger is a two-time AUS MVP and all-Canadian. A CIS tournament all-star, she was Dalhousie’s female athlete of the year in 1983 and helped lead the Tigers to a silver medal at the 1979-80 CIAU championship.

She also spent 12 years on Canada’s national team and played 18 seasons of semi-professional basketball in Germany’s first division league.

“I’m very happy to be continuing my coaching career here at Dalhousie,” says Stammberger. “I’m pleased and excited with the direction that our women's basketball program is heading. We have a great group of young student-athletes and I look forward to what the future holds."

Stammberger will join Paul and Eric Villeneuve as part of the 2016 class of inductees to the Dalhousie Sport Hall of Fame on May 3, 2016.