Lindsay Gottlieb
Gottlieb with California in 2015
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| Sport(s) | Women's Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | California |
| Conference | Pac-12 |
| Record | 138–65 (.680) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
October 2, 1977 Scarsdale, New York |
| Playing career | |
| 1995–1999 | Brown |
| Position(s) | Guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1999–2001 | Syracuse (asst.) |
| 2001–2002 | New Hampshire (asst.) |
| 2002–2005 | Richmond (asst.) |
| 2005–2007 | California (asst.) |
| 2007–2008 | California (Assoc. HC) |
| 2008–2011 | UC Santa Barbara |
| 2011–present | California |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 194–104 (.651) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2× Big West championships (2009, 2011) Pac-12 championship (2013) |
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| Awards | |
| Big West Coach of the Year (2009) Pac-12 Coach of the Year - Media (2013) |
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Lindsay Catherine Gottlieb (born October 2, 1977) became the ninth University of California women's basketball coach on April 25, 2011. In just her second season in Berkeley, Gottlieb led the 2012–13 Golden Bears to the first Final Four in school history, their first Pac-12 Conference championship, and the most wins ever by a Cal women's basketball team (32-4). Gottlieb was named Pac-12 Coach of the Year by the media, and was one of the four finalists for the Naismith National Coach of the Year. In her first season at Cal, Gottlieb's Bears had a 25-10 record, making her the first women's basketball coach to win 20 games in her first season at California. That year, Gottlieb led the Bears to the second round of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament. Gottlieb spent the previous three years as the head coach at UCSB where she led the team to two regular-season Big West championships in 2009 and 2011, as well as the Big West Tournament championship in 2009. She earned her 100th career victory on February 3, 2013.
In addition to their outstanding success on the court, Gottlieb's 2012–13 California team became nationally known as a team that had fun, while also keeping focus. Senior leader Layshia Clarendon cut her hair into what became a trademark mohawk, and the team wrote, produced, and starred in their own music video, "Started from the Bottom." Coach Gottlieb explained: "My philosophy in general is that college athletics should be an enjoyable experience for the people involved in it. I think you have to embrace this team's nature of being fun-loving. You have to empower them to enjoy the experience. I can do that because I'm so confident in their focus. They're creative, and they're smart kids. If anything, I think that when they're happier and enjoying it, they're more likely to play hard and play well."
Lindsay Gottlieb was born in Scarsdale, New York on October 2, 1977. Although most of her family members are lawyers, and her father was a New York state judge, Gottlieb was passionate about sports from an early age. "Whatever sports season it was, I wanted to play," says Gottlieb. "I pretty much just wanted to be playing ball all the time." She started playing organized basketball in the fourth grade and by the time she reached high school was hoping for a college basketball career. Spending her senior year of high school on the bench with a torn ACL led her to view the game from a different perspective, and to consider coaching.
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