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Jody Conradt

Jody Conradt
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Sport(s) Basketball, volleyball
Current position
Title Special assistant to the women's athletic director
Team Texas
Conference Big 12
Biographical details
Born (1941-05-13) May 13, 1941 (age 75)
Goldthwaite, Texas
Playing career
1959–1963 Baylor
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Basketball
1969–1973 Sam Houston State
1973–1976 Texas–Arlington
1976–2007 Texas
Volleyball
1973–1975 Texas–Arlington
1976–1977 Texas
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2007–present Texas (special asst. to women's AD)
Head coaching record
Overall 900–307 (basketball)
165–67–15 (volleyball)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
  • NCAA Tournament championship (1986)
  • 10× SWC regular season (1983–1990, 1993, 1996)
  • 2× Big 12 regular season (2003, 2004)
  • 9× SWC tournament (1983–1990, 1994)
  • Big 12 tournament (2003)
Basketball Hall of Fame
Inducted in 1998 (profile)
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

Addie Jo "Jody" Conradt (born May 13, 1941) is a retired women's basketball coach. She was the head coach for the women's team at University of Texas at Austin (UT). Her coaching career spanned 38 years, with the last 31 years at UT from 1976 to 2007. She also served concurrently as the UT women's athletic director from 1992 to 2001. During her tenure at UT, she achieved several notable personal and team milestones in collegiate basketball. At retirement, she had tallied 900 career victories, second place in all time victories for an NCAA Division I basketball coach.

Addie Jo Conradt was born in Goldthwaite, Texas, United States to Ann and Charles Conradt. Both her parents were athletic, with her mother playing competitively on a local softball team, and her father playing semi-pro baseball. She was a standout basketball player at Goldthwaite High School, where she averaged 40 points per game. Many people growing up in Goldthwaite stayed there, according to Condradt, but she got a sense that one could have larger ambitions when a Goldthwaite native, Marie Reynolds, joined the All American Red Heads Team a barnstorming basketball team which played throughout the United States and around the world. After high school, Conradt played collegiate basketball at Baylor University, earning a degree in physical education in 1963. She finished her collegiate basketball career averaging 20 points per game. After graduation, she taught and coached at Waco Midway High School and earned her master's degree from Baylor in 1969.

Prior to her career at UT she served as women's basketball head coach at Sam Houston State University from 1969 to 1973, where her teams had a record of 74–23. Then she coached at the University of Texas at Arlington from 1973 to 1976, where her teams had a record of 43–39.

In 1975, in response to Title IX, the University of Texas created a separate women's athletic department. In 1976, they hired Donna Lopiano to become the first women's athletic director. The following year, Lopiano hired Conradt as coach of the women's basketball team. Conradt had attracted national attention while at the University of Texas at Arlington. After two losing seasons, they went 23–11 in the 1975–76 seasons, upsetting powerful opponents. Texas planned to bring the women's program to national prominence, and they felt Conradt was the right coach for the job. Teams coached by Condradt were using tactics not seen in many other places, such as full court pressure, double low posts and a transition game.


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