The 2021-22 season will be Whitney Jennings third season as an assistant coach for the Bulldogs. Jennings returned to Butler as an interim assistant basketball coach for the women's program on Dec. 5, 2019.
Jennings spent two seasons at Butler as a student-athlete, leading the team in scoring each year. The point guard left the locker room with 1,049 career points. She scored 539 points during her junior season and 510 as a senior. Jennings and former BU assistant coach Julie Shelton (VonDielingen) are the only two players in program history to have multiple 500+ point seasons.
Jennings helped guide Butler to 23 wins in 2018-19 as a player. The 'Dawgs reached the Sweet 16 of the WNIT and became just the 11th team in program history to win more than 20 games in a single-season.
Added as an assistant coach during the 2019-20 campaign, Jennings helped coach the Bulldogs to a 19-11 record in her first season, including a 9-1 record from January 4 to February 9. The 2019-20 post-season was cut short due to the Covid-19 pandemic
