Longtime South Dakota School of Mines women’s basketball coach Barb Felderman is stepping down after 32 years, with the school issuing a statement calling it a mutual agreement and quoting Felderman as saying “I have lived my dreams.”

Felderman compiled a 474-397 record, 11 conference championships, and 9 appearances in the NAIA tournament, including Final Four appearances in 1998 and 1999. The gymnasium floor at School of Mines is being named in her honor.

Earlier this year, after the school did not renew the contract of her top assistant, Felderman told the Rapid City Journal she thought it was the latest attempt by AD Dick Kaiser to force her to quit.

She said Kaiser had tried to force her out since he’d come to Mines in 2009…adding that the entire athletic department was unhappy with Kaiser but that no one else was willing to jeopardize their career by speaking out.

Kaiser suspended Felderman for 4 games in January 2011 after she drove a group of players to Denver so they could visit a teammate in the hospital after being paralyzed by a rare medical condition when on a team trip to Hawaii in late 2010.

The suspension came because it would be an NCAA violation for a coach to pay for a trip of any kind for her players, but Felderman maintains the players paid for gas and all of their own expenses.