San Jose State Spartans women's basketball
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| University | San Jose State University | ||
| First season | 1895–96 | ||
| Conference | Mountain West | ||
| Location | San Jose, CA | ||
| Head coach | Jamie Craighead (3rd year) | ||
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Event Center Arena (Capacity: 5,000) |
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| Nickname | Spartans | ||
| Colors | Blue, White, and Gold |
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| Conference regular season champions | |||
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The San Jose State Spartans women's basketball team represents San José State University in San Jose, California, in NCAA women's basketball competition. The team currently plays in the Mountain West Conference.
The women's basketball program at San Jose State University, then San Jose Normal School, began in 1895. By 1968, San Jose State College established its first intercollegiate-sponsored women's basketball team that became formally established in the 1971–72 season with the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women.
Carolyn Lewis became head coach at San Jose State in 1974. In 1975, the women's basketball program offered its first scholarship.
Sharon Chatman succeeded Lewis as head coach in 1976, the year the team joined the Northern California Athletic Conference. In Chatman's 10 seasons as head coach, she compiled a 143–121 record and led the Spartans to NorCal championships in 1978 and 1979 and the AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament every year from 1978 to 1981. In 1982, San Jose State women's athletics programs moved from the AIAW to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and the women's basketball team moved from the NorCal Conference to the NorPac Conference.
Chatman posted losing records during each of her final three seasons (1983–1986), and the team continued to post losing records throughout the six-season tenure of Tina Krah from 1986 to 1992 and coach Karen Smith's first season in 1992–93. Krah was 17–143 as head coach. San Jose State women's basketball joined the men's basketball program in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (now the Big West Conference) in 1986, Krah's first season. In 1993–94, Karen Smith led the Spartans to their first winning season since 1982–83. This would be the only winning season in Karen Smith's tenure, during which San Jose State moved from the Big West to the Western Athletic Conference in 1996.
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