Mohegan — Stephanie White and the Connecticut Sun have parted ways after she led the team to the WNBA semifinals both of her seasons as coach, the team announced Monday.

The Sun finished third in the regular season with a 28-12 record, swept Indiana in the first round of the playoffs and lost a five-game semifinal series to Minnesota.

“We want to thank Stephanie for her time in Connecticut and her commitment to our organization over the past two seasons,” Sun president Jen Rizzotti said. “We wish her the best in her future endeavors.”

The Sun are the seventh WNBA team to make a coaching change, and the announcement came a day after the Indiana Fever fired Christie Sides.

White had said on a zoom with reporters two weeks ago that she was dealing with a family emergency and was not thinking about her coaching future, but the Chicago Sun-Times has been reporting that White is a candidate to replace Sides.

White led the Sun to a franchise-best 27-13 record in her first season and was named 2023 WNBA Coach of the Year and Associated Press Coach of the Year.

White previously was an assistant and head coach with the Indiana Fever. She was on the staff of the Fever's 2012 WNBA championship team, and as head coach she led the team to the finals in 2015. She was head coach at Vanderbilt from 2016-21.

White played five seasons in the WNBA after her college career at Purdue. The Indiana native played the last four of her five WNBA seasons with the Fever.

White also has worked in television as a college basketball analyst for ESPN and the Big Ten Network.

Speaking to ESPN, Rizzotti alluded to a coaching change for White.

“We parted on good terms because some of (White’s) decision-making process was not just about basketball,” Rizzotti said.

“It’s not any easy decision to leave Connecticut, but I think the best one for my family and my career,” White said in an ESPN story. “It’s meant a lot to me — I’m so grateful to Jen and the organization. ... Certainly, at the end of the day, it’s tough for me being away from my family. So from a professional standpoint and a personal standpoint, I feel like it’s the best decision.”