Karen Stack Umlauf

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Karen Stack Umlauf
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NationalityAmerican
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High school Oak Forest (Oak Forest, Illinois)
College
Coaching career2018–present
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As coach:
20182020 Chicago Bulls (assistant)

Karen Stack Umlauf is a former executive and assistant coach of the National Basketball Association's Chicago Bulls.

Stack Umlauf was a standout basketball player for the Northwestern Wildcats in the early 1980s. [1] After a year of playing basketball overseas, she joined the Bulls in 1985, starting with a role of selling tickets. [2] Over the next decades, she rose to become director of basketball operations for 20 years and later senior director of basketball administration. [3]

In 2017, she lobbied Bulls head of basketball operations John Paxson to let her coach. She was first assigned to the summer league. [4] In so doing, she became the Bulls' first female assistant coach, combining that role with the role of director of team operations. [5]

On October 12, 2020, the organization announced Stack Umlauf would not return to the coaching staff under newly-hired head coach Billy Donovan. [6]

Personal life

Stack Umlauf is the sister of Jim Stack, a former scout and assistant general manager for the Bulls and later general manager of the Minnesota Timberwolves. [4] She is also the aunt of NBA player Frank Kaminsky. [7]

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