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• The winningest coach in Sun Devil history (251-154) and No. 4 in the Pac-10 in most career wins, Charli Turner Thorne has led the Arizona State women's basketball team to the NCAA Tournament seven times in the last nine years, including the last five seasons. The seven NCAA appearances are four more than what ASU had in the 15 years prior to Turner Thorne's arrival in Tempe. • In 2009 Turner Thorne guided the Sun Devils to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament for the second time in the last three seasons. • With 26 wins in 2008-09, Turner Thorne joined former Washington head coach Chris Gobrecht and current Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer as the only other coaches in Pac-10 history (since the 1986-87 season) to have led their respective schools to five (or more) consecutive 20-win seasons. • In 2006-07 Turner Thorne guided the Sun Devils to a school record 31 wins, including a school record 16 Pac-10 wins, and led them to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history. The Sun Devils concluded the 2006-07 season ranked No. 8 in the final USA Today/ESPN coaches poll and No. 10 in the final Associated Press poll, their highest FINAL rankings in each of the respective polls in school history. • In 2005-06 Turner Thorne guided ASU to a 25-7 record and also led the Sun Devils to their seventh consecutive postseason berth. During the second half of that season Turner Thorne led ASU on a school record 10-game winning streak after leading the Sun Devils to a school record-tying nine-game winning streak earlier in the season (also led ASU to its first Top 10 ranking in 22 years). • In 2004-05 directed ASU to a 24-10 overall record and its first NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearance in 22 years. • Led her 2001-02 team to a 25-9 record, which at the time had tied the single-season school record for most wins. • Guided ASU to a share of the Pac-10 title in 2001 and the inaugural Pac-10 Tournament title in 2002, the first league championships in school history. • Led Northern Arizona University to consecutive winning seasons in 1994-95 and 1995-96, the first coach in school history to accomplish that feat. • As a player, lettered four years at Stanford where she played under Tara VanDerveer. • During the 2007 offseason Turner Thorne served as an assistant coach on USA Basketball's U21 World Championship Team which won the gold medal at the FIBA U21 World Championship in Moscow, Russia. • Is currently on the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's (WBCA) Board of Directors. • Graduated from Stanford in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in psychology and later earned her master's degree in education from Washington in 1990. Career Record: 291-194 Turner Thorne's Year-by-Year Results: 2007-08 2008-09 |
 
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