Geno Auriemma

Geno Auriemma

Auriemma in May 2014
Sport(s)	Women's college basketball
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Connecticut
Conference	AAC
Biographical details
Born	(1954-03-23) March 23, 1954 (age 62) Montella, Italy
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1978–1979	St. Joseph's (asst.)
1979–1981	Bishop Kenrick HS (asst.)
1981–1985	Virginia (asst.)
1985–current	Connecticut
Head coaching record
Overall	985–134 (.880)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
11× NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship (1995, 2000, 2002–2004, 2009, 2010, 2013–2016) 23× Conference Regular Season Champions (19× Big East, 4× AAC) 21× Conference Tournament Champions (18× Big East, 3× AAC)
Awards
7× Naismith Coach of the Year (1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2008, 2009, 2016) 6× WBCA National Coach of the Year (1997, 2000, 2002, 2008, 2009, 2016) 8× AP Coach of the Year (1995, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2016) 5× USBWA Women's National Coach of the Year (1995, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2016) 10× Big East Coach of the Year (1989, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2008–2011) 4× American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year (2014–2017) John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Award (2012) National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame
Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006 (profile)
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
Medal record Coach for women’s basketball Representing  United States Olympic Games 2000 Sydney Team 2012 London Team 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team FIBA World Championship 2010 Czech Republic 2014 Turkey FIBA Under-19 World Championship 2001 Czech Republic

Luigi "Geno" Auriemma (born March 23, 1954) is an Italian-born American college basketball coach and the head coach of the University of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team. He has led UConn to eleven NCAA Division I national championships (a feat matched by no one else in women's college basketball) and has won seven national Naismith College Coach of the Year awards. Auriemma has been the head coach of the United States women's national basketball team since 2009, during which time his teams won the 2010 and 2014 World Championships, and gold medals at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.

Auriemma emigrated with his family from Montella in Southern Italy to Norristown, Pennsylvania when he was seven years old, and he spent the rest of his childhood there. After graduating from West Chester University of Pennsylvania in 1977, Auriemma was hired as an assistant coach at Saint Joseph's University, where he worked in 1978 and 1979. He then took a two-year absence from college basketball, serving as an assistant coach at his former high school, Bishop Kenrick, before assuming an assistant coaching position with the University of Virginia Cavaliers women's team in 1981. Auriemma became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994 at the age of 40, noting in his autobiography that he finally decided to naturalize when his University of Connecticut team was slated to tour Italy that summer and he was concerned about potential problems, as he had never done any required national service in his birth country.