Gail Goestenkors
Goestenkors in March 2009
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| Sport(s) | Women's basketball | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born |
February 26, 1963 Waterford, Michigan |
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| 1981–1985 | Saginaw Valley State | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Point guard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1985–1986 | Iowa State (grad. asst.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1986–1992 | Purdue (asst.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1992–2007 | Duke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2012 | Texas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Los Angeles Sparks (asst.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Indiana Fever (asst.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Overall | 498–163 (.753) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 7× ACC Coach of the Year (1996, 1998, 1999, 2002–2004, 2007) Naismith Coach of the Year (2003) WBCA National Coach of the Year (2003) AP Coach of the Year (2007) |
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Gail Ann Goestenkors (born February 26, 1963), is an American basketball coach who was most recently an assistant coach with the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association. Previously, she was an assistant coach of the Los Angeles Sparks.Indiana Fever,
Prior to entering the professional ranks, Goestenkors spent twenty years as a college basketball head coach for Duke University and The University of Texas. She led Duke from 1992 until 2007, when she was hired to replace the retiring Jody Conradt at Texas. Goestenkors left Texas following the 2011-12 season citing fatigue.
Born in Waterford, Michigan, Goestenkors attended Saginaw Valley State University, where she played under future Purdue head coach Marsha Reall. After graduating in 1985, Goestenkors became a graduate assistant coach at Iowa State. After one season, she left to become an assistant coach at Purdue under Lin Dunn, where she remained until becoming head coach at Duke in 1992.
Goestenkors accumulated an impressive record at Duke and is one of the most accomplished women's basketball coaches in the nation. She received recognition as the ACC Coach of the Year a record 7 times (1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2007). In the 2001-02 season, Goestenkors led the Blue Devils to the first undefeated regular season in ACC women's basketball history — a feat she would repeat two other times during her tenure at Duke (2003, 2007). During her final ten seasons at Duke, Goestenkors led the Blue Devils to NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen appearances every year, seven Elite Eight appearances, four Final Four appearances, and two appearances in the NCAA Championship game. During her tenure, her teams won five ACC tournament championships and eight ACC regular season titles. Goestenkors holds the ACC record for fewest games required to achieve 300 wins (387 games).
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