Under coach Stefanie Pemper, Bowdoin College has become one Division III's powerhouses. 9 of 10 seasons the Polar Bears have been NCAA dancing, and this season marked the six straight time the team reached the Elite Eight. She leaves with a record of 235-48 (.830).

Noted an article in 2004:

They have done it without athletic scholarships and while balancing extracurricular activities and demanding classwork at Bowdoin, a liberal arts college of more than 1,600 students.

They have done it well. The team's cumulative grade point average of 3.35 is higher than the 3.27 average of the student body. They have done it that way because they wanted to.

"I had decided not to play basketball in college," said Pouravelis, a sophomore forward, who led her high school team to the Maine Class A championship, "because I didn't want it to get distorted into something I didn't love anymore. But right here is about as pure as it gets."

Oh, and in her spare time, Pemper was the Associate Athletic Director.

Next up? Division I at the Naval Academy.