Bill Fennelly
Bill Fennelly, Photo by Wesley Winterink
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| Sport(s) | Women's Basketball | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current position | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title | Head coach | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | Iowa State | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Conference | Big 12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record | 462–234 (.664) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born |
May 14, 1957 Davenport, Iowa |
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| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1981–1986 | Fresno State (assistant) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1986–1988 | Notre Dame (assistant) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1988–1994 | Toledo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1995–present | Iowa State | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Overall | 628–287 (.686) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Big 12 regular season championship (2000) 2× Big 12 Tournament championship (2000, 2001) 3× MAC regular season championship (1991, 1992, 1995) 3× MAC Tournament championship (1991, 1992, 1995) |
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| 3× WBCA District 5 Coach of the Year (1995, 2000, 2005) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bill Fennelly (born May 14, 1957) is the head women's basketball coach at Iowa State University (ISU). He has an all time coaching record of 596-250 (through January 25, 2015), coming from tenures as the head coach of the Toledo Rockets and the Iowa State Cyclones. In March 2007, Fennelly inked a "lifetime" contract with the Cyclones to continue as head coach for the remainder of his career.
Fennelly has guided the Cyclones to a record of 430-197 (through January 25, 2015) in the nineteen seasons since being named head coach of the Cyclones in 1995, giving the Cyclones the second best overall record since the founding of the Big 12 Conference (the Baylor Lady Bears basketball program is first). The ISU program had only 5 winning seasons in 22 years of play prior to his arrival. His Cyclone teams have reached the NCAA Tournament 13 times, including NCAA Elite Eight appearances in 1999 and 2009, and NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearances in 2000, 2001, and 2010.
Iowa State has spent considerable time in the Associated Press national poll, including 34 weeks in the Top 10. In just 11 seasons, he posted more than twice as many conference wins as the program had in all of its previous years combined.
In the Cyclones’ inaugural WNIT appearance, Fennelly coached ISU to the Final Four. His teams have drawn record-setting crowds of loyal fans into Hilton Coliseum. ISU’s attendance average ranked among the top 11 schools nationally in each of the last ten seasons and the Cyclones enjoyed their first-ever sellout crowd in a 2004 WNIT/NIT doubleheader against Saint Joseph's. In both 2009 and 2010, the Cyclones' home attendance ranked 3rd in the nation at over 9,700 fans per game, ranking behind only powerhouses Tennessee and Connecticut. During 2011-12, attendance averaged 10,125, ranked 3rd in the nation behind Tennessee and Louisville.
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