Greenwood Girls Basketball Coach Pfeiffer Resigns After Three Seasons

Jenny Pfeiffer resigned Thursday as head coach of the Greenwood High School Lady Woodmen after three seasons, with athletic director Mike Campbell citing growing family commitments as the driving factor behind her departure. Greenwood will now begin a search for her replacement.

Campbell said the two held conversations earlier this week before Pfeiffer made her decision final. "We talked (last) Monday and then again on Thursday, and she decided it was time to step down," he said. "Her kids are getting older and are going into middle school and high school and those types of things. So she decided it was time to spend more time with them. They are getting older and getting more involved in their sports and their activities."

Pfeiffer finishes her tenure with an 11–58 overall record, including a 1–22 mark this past season. The numbers are difficult, but her path to Greenwood was anything but ordinary. A 2002 Indiana All-Star out of Jennings County, she went on to play at the University of Kentucky and later played and coached professionally in Iceland before turning to the college coaching ranks.

Greenwood was her first high school head coaching position. She previously built her résumé at the NCAA Division II level, spending five seasons at Coker from 2010 to 2015, then two more at Mars Hill from 2016 to 2018. Her time at Mars Hill ended due to lingering complications from a head injury she sustained during a team practice, a setback that preceded her eventual arrival in Greenwood.

As the school opens its search, Campbell made clear what the program is looking for: a coach who can energize and develop the system from the youth level up. That framing suggests Greenwood views this hire as a long-term rebuild, not a quick fix. The Lady Woodmen need someone willing to invest at the grassroots level, and Campbell's language signals that experience alone won't be the only criterion.

No interim coach has been announced, and the formal search timeline has not yet been made public.