AMES – Iowa State’s new director of athletics already is aware of of no less than one huge rent he’ll should make.
Jared Benko, Iowa State’s new AD, will face the tall speak of changing longtime Cyclones girls’s basketball coach Invoice Fennelly. Fennelly will retire on the conclusion of the 2026-27 season.
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Benko, who was formally launched throughout a press convention on Oct. 19, mentioned Fennelly’s alternative could have huge sneakers to fill.
“Invoice’s legacy is unimaginable,” Benko mentioned. “This system he is constructed is unimaginable.”
Fennelly is without doubt one of the most profitable coaches in Iowa State historical past. He has led the Cyclones to a pair of Elite Eight appearances, three Massive 12 Event titles and one regular-season convention crown.
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Iowa State girls’s basketball coach Invoice Fennelly and his spouse Deb pose with their granddaughter Kellie Fennelly throughout tailgating earlier than Iowa State and Southeast Missouri at Jack Trice Stadium parking zone on Sept. 5, 2026, in Ames, Iowa.
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Photographs of longtime Iowa State girls’s basketball coach Invoice Fennelly
Iowa State girls’s basketball coach Invoice Fennelly and his spouse Deb pose with their granddaughter Kellie Fennelly throughout tailgating earlier than Iowa State and Southeast Missouri at Jack Trice Stadium parking zone on Sept. 5, 2026, in Ames, Iowa.
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Iowa State girls’s basketball head coach Invoice Fennelly and assistant Billy Fennelly are proven in the course of the fourth quarter towards Kansas State on Feb. 15, 2026, at Hilton Coliseum in Ames.
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Photographs of longtime Iowa State girls’s basketball coach Invoice Fennelly
Iowa State Cyclones’ girls’s basketball head coach Invoice Fennelly watches the sport from bench in the course of the first quarter towards Baylor within the Massive-12 girls’s basketball on Jan. 4, 2026, at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa.
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Photographs of longtime Iowa State girls’s basketball coach Invoice Fennelly
Iowa State Cyclones’ girls’s basketball head coach Invoice Fennelly write in a board earlier than Iowa State and Oklahoma State girls basketball at Hilton Coliseum on February. 25, 2026, in Ames, Iowa.
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Photographs of longtime Iowa State girls’s basketball coach Invoice Fennelly
Iowa State Cyclones’ girls’s basketball head coach Invoice Fennelly write in a board earlier than Iowa State and Oklahoma State girls basketball at Hilton Coliseum on February. 25, 2026, in Ames, Iowa.
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Iowa State Cyclones girls’s basketball head coach Invoice Fennelly walks along with his staff and his grandchildren throughout honoring earlier than the Iowa State and UCF girls’s basketball sport on Jan. 31, 2026, at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa.
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Iowa State Cyclones’ girls’s basketball head coach Invoice Fennelly speaks in the course of the college’s girls’s basketball media day at Sukup Basketball Advanced on Oct. 16, 2025, in Ames, Iowa.
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Iowa State Ladies’s basketball coach Invoice Fennelly talks to a fan throughout Cyclones Tailgate Tour kickoff at Toast on Might 19, 2025, in Ankeny, Iowa
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Head coach Invoice Fennelly stands for a photograph throughout Iowa State girls’s basketball media day at Hilton Coliseum, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024.
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Iowa State Cyclones’ guard Emily Ryan (11) will get hug from Iowa State Cyclones’ head coach Invoice Fennelly throughout senior day celebration after profitable 85-63 over Kansas State within the Massive-12 girls’s basketball at Hilton Coliseum on Sunday, March 2, 2025, in Ames, Iowa.
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Iowa State Cyclones’ head coach Invoice Fennelly walks to the locker room after profitable 64-42 over Indiana State within the NCAA girls’s basketball at Hilton Coliseum on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, in Ames, Iowa.
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Iowa State Cyclones’ head coach Invoice Fennelly poses along with his spouse Deb and grand youngsters after receiving a poster in his 30-years head coach earlier than Iowa State and Indiana State NCAA girls’s basketball at Hilton Coliseum on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, in Ames, Iowa.
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Iowa State Ladies basketball coach Invoice Fennelly talks to the followers throughout Cyclones Tailgate Tour at MidAmerican Vitality RecPlex on Thursday, Might 9, 2024, in West Des Moines, Iowa
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Iowa State girls’s head basketball coach Invoice Fennelly waves to the gang as he’s launched throughout Hilton Insanity at Hilton Coliseum in Ames on Friday, Oct. 12, 2018.
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Iowa State Ladies’s Basketball Coach Invoice Fennelly talks to the press on Iowa State Ladies’s basketball media day for the 2018-2019 season on Monday, Oct. 8, 2018, on the Sukup Basketball Advanced in Ames.
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Iowa State’s Steve Prohm, left, and girls’s head coach Invoice Fennelly are launched throughout Hilton Insanity on the Hilton Coliseum on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017, in Ames.
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Head soccer coach Paul Rhoads (left) and head girls’s basketball coach Invoice Fennelly prepare handy out door prizes to followers Tuesday, Might 12, 2015, in the course of the first cease of the 2015 Cyclone Tailgate Tour on the Bridgeview Middle in Ottumwa, Iowa.
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Head girls’s basketball coach Invoice Fennelly (left) shakes arms with Doug Brown after Brown gained a pair of basketball tickets in a door prize drawing Tuesday, Might 12, 2015, in the course of the first cease of the 2015 Cyclone Tailgate Tour on the Bridgeview Middle in Ottumwa, Iowa. Brown says he is a season ticket holder in soccer and in each males’s and girls’s basketball.
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Photographs of longtime Iowa State girls’s basketball coach Invoice Fennelly
Coach Invoice Fennelly addresses a big group of followers that gathered exterior the Alumni Middle to cheer on the ladies’s basketball staff earlier than leaving for Dayton and their Candy 16 sport towards Connecticut in 2010.
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Photographs of longtime Iowa State girls’s basketball coach Invoice Fennelly
Iowa State’s head coach Invoice Fennelly shouts at a referee after disagreeing with a name throughout a 2014 sport towards the UC Riverside Highlanders.
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ISU coach Invoice Fennelly talks to Megan Ronhovde and Mary Fox throughout a 2004 sport towards Kansas.
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Iowa State coach Invoice Fennelly cheers throughout a 2001 sport.
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Invoice Fennelly poses for a photograph in 1996.
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Photographs of longtime Iowa State girls’s basketball coach Invoice Fennelly
Iowa State coach Invoice Fennelly, left and Iowa coach Lisa Bluder will sq. off Thursday night time in Iowa Metropolis.
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The college introduced on Oct. 12 that the upcoming season can be Fennelly’s final. So, Benko, who formally begins Oct. 30, already has a significant job opening he’ll should fill.
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Benko mentioned he is on the lookout for a coach who’s prepared to grind away. He additionally desires a coach who can construct a roster and has proven they’ll win.
“I believe that is at all times the most effective indicator of future success, is previous success,” Benko mentioned.
Fennelly has had loads of that, compiling 656 wins throughout his teaching profession. The longtime coach additionally has guided Iowa State to the postseason 24 instances.
Benko believes that success, together with Iowa State’s loyal fan base, will make it a coveted job.
“I am positive there can be a whole lot of nice candidates and entries,” Benko mentioned.
This text initially appeared on Des Moines Register: What Iowa State’s new AD is on the lookout for in a girls’s basketball coach
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