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THE GAIL GOESTENKORS FILE |
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Full Name: Gail Ann Goestenkors
Hometown: Waterford, Mich.
Education: Saginaw Valley State, 1985
PLAYING EXPERIENCE
· Saginaw Valley State (1981-85)
NAIA All-America; Conference MVP; Academic All-Conference; team record in her playing tenure was 114-13 highlighted by an NAIA national championship second place and third-place finish
USA BASKETBALL COACHING POSITIONS
· USA Olympic Team Assistant Coach (2008 Beijing Olympics)
· USA Senior National Team Assistant Coach (2007-current)
· USA World Championship Assistant Coach (2006)
· USA World University Games Head Coach (2005; gold medal)
· USA U19 World Championship Head Coach (2005; gold medal)
· USA Olympic Team Assistant Coach (2004 Athens; gold medal)
· USA World Championship Assistant Coach (2002; gold medal)
· U.S. Jones Cup Team Head Coach (1997; silver medal)
CAREER COACHING RECORD
· Overall Record: 530 games: 418-112 (.790)
· Ranks No. 4 among active Division I coaches in winning percentage (.790)
· Ranks No. 5 among all-time Division I coaches in winning percentage
· Fourth fastest Division I women's basketball coach to 400 career wins
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
· Head Coach: 1 year (2007-)
Overall Record: 35 games: 22-13 (.630)
Texas in 2007-08: 22-13, NCAA Championship Second Round; Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship Tournament Semifinalis
DUKE UNIVERSITY
· Head Coach: 15 years (1992-93 season through 2006-07)
· Overall Record: 495 games: 396-99 (.800)
· NCAA Championship Tournament Record: 36-13 (.735)
· Home: 191-26 (.880), Away: 119-46 (.721), Neutral: 86-27 (.761)
· Goestenkors against ranked opponents: 151 games, 87-64 (.576)
· Atlantic Coast Conference Regular Season: 179-55 (.765)
· ACC Tournament Record: 26-10 (.722)
OTHER COLLEGE COACHING EXPERIENCE
· Assistant Coach, Purdue (1986-92)
· Graduate Assistant, Iowa State (1985-86)
COACHING
HIGHLIGHTS & HONORS
· 14 consecutive NCAA Tournament bids
(1995-2008); 13 at Duke, 1 at Texas (included four NCAA Final Four berths in last nine seasons at Duke)
· 2 NCAA National Championship game appearances (1999, 2006)
· 4 NCAA Final Fours
(1999, 2002, 2003, 2006)
· 7 NCAA Elite Eight showings
(1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
· 9 NCAA Sweet Sixteen showings
(1998, 1999, 2000-07)
· 8 ACC regular season championships (1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007)
· 5 ACC Championship Tournament titles (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
· Directed an unprecedented seven consecutive 30-win seasons from 2000-01 to 2006-07, breaking the mark Duke held with Louisiana Tech
· In these seven years, Duke ranked No. 2 nationally in Division I victories (220) behind only Connecticut (228)
· Had national top-five recruiting classes from 1999-2005 and in 2007
NATIONAL COACH OF THE YEAR HONORS
· 2007: WBCA/Russell Athletic, Naismith, Associated Press, USBWA, ESPN.com
· 2005: USA Basketball Coach of the Year (guided U19 team to gold medal)
· 2003: Rawlings/WBCA, Naismith Award, Victor Award
· 2002: GBall Magazine
· 2000: Basketball Times
· 1999: Victor Award
· 6-time WBCA District Coach of the Year (1995, 2001-04, '07)
· 7-time ACC Coach of the Year (tying for most such honors in ACC history) in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007
· Recipient of the 2006 WBCA Carl Eckman Award, which honors coaches who exemplify Eckman's spirit, integrity and character in basketball
PLAYER HONORS UNDER COACH G
· 2 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans
· 2 Players earning a total of eight National Player of the Year honors (Alana Beard, Lindsey Harding)
· 10 WNBA players/1 ABL player
· 11 USA Basketball participants
· 4 State Farm Wade Trophy National Player of the Year finalists
· 4 Naismith Award National Player of the Year finalists
· 5 Kodak All-Americans (earning nine awards)
· 7 Associated Press All-Americans (earning 14 honors)
· 4 United State Basketball Writers Association All-Americans (earning seven honors)
· 7 National Freshman of the Year honors (Alana Beard)
· 5 NCAA Final Four All-Tournament Team picks
· One ACC Overall Athlete of the Year
· Five ACC Players of the Year
· 35 All-ACC honors
· 50 ACC Academic Honor Roll selections
COACH G'S OTHER PROFESSIONAL/COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS
· Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Board of Directors (current)
· Coaches vs. Cancer initiative
· Neighborhood Longhorns "Coach G's Hook 'Em on Reading" program
· Girls/Women in Sports (GWIS) Board Member
· Kodak All-America Selection Committee (1998-2001)
· Ronald McDonald House of Durham (Capital Campaign Co-Chair)
· Durham (NC) Big Brothers/Big Sisters Key Volunteer of the Year
WOMEN'S ATHLETICS DIRECTOR CHRIS PLONSKY ON HIRING GOESTENKORS
"Gail Goestenkors' legacy continues to build. She coaches champions. More important, Gail is devoted to young people and is committed to their growth and development as individuals. Gail possesses skill, integrity and class. She is a leader in the profession, and her qualities perfectly align with our vision and goals for the future of Texas women's basketball." |
3rd season at Texas
18th Season Overall (3 at Texas, 15 at Duke University)
• Gail Goestenkors complete bio 
• Goestenkors introduced as Women's Basketball head coach/press conference quotes and video (April 5, 2007)
Gail Goestenkors has acquired coaching credentials on basketball courts from Austin to Athens, Boston to Beijing.
But to understand why Goestenkors coaches -- how she coaches -- just look at what she did on a little basketball court in Saginaw, Mich., when she was a point guard for the Saginaw Valley State Cardinals.
Goestenkors earned NAIA All-America honors, and she still ranks second in school history in steals and assists -- statistical categories that underscore a commitment to team instead of self.
And that's the very culture Goestenkors is instilling within the Texas Women's Basketball program.
Building upon the rich Texas Longhorns history, Goestenkors has led UT into the NCAA postseason in every season of her tenure, all the while establishing a tradition that demands more. Goestenkors strives for a Texas legacy of character and championships.
When she was hired on April 5, 2007 as just the third women's basketball head coach in Texas history, Goestenkors already had a background that suggested success.
She was the youngest head coach (29) at a major Division I program when she took over at Duke University in 1992, and became the fourth-fastest coach in Division I history to register 400 career victories.
Goestenkors directed the Duke program from 1992-93 through the 2006-07 season, leading the Blue Devils to 13-consecutive NCAA Championship appearances. Duke advanced to four NCAA Final Fours over her last nine seasons, playing in the national semifinals in 1999, 2002, 2003 and 2006 while making two NCAA championship game appearances (1999, 2006).
In total at Duke, Goestenkors had six more winning seasons (14) than there were in the 17 years prior to her arrival in Durham. Goestenkors led the Blue Devils to their first appearances in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight, Final Four and National Championship game and to the program's first-ever Atlantic Coast Conference tournament title.
Under her guidance, Duke also earned eight ACC regular season championships (1998, 1999, 2001-2005, 2007) and five ACC tournament crowns from 2000-2004.
In ACC games, Goestenkors compiled an impressive a 76.5 winning percentage (179-55), a percentage which is higher than any men's and women's coach in ACC history with a minimum of 200 games coached.
Also recognized as one of the rising coaching stars for USA Basketball, Goestenkors most recently served as an assistant coach with the gold-medal winning USA National Team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Goestenkors was also an assistant on the USA coaching staff when the Americans earned the gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Goestenkors is just the fifth women's coach to help lead two different teams to an Olympic gold medal.
In addition, Goestenkors has helped USA Basketball teams earn three other gold medals -- one as assistant coach with the 2002 World Championship Team, and the other two as USA head coach of the 2005 Under 19 World Championship squad and the 2005 World University Games team.
In recognition of her coaching successes and USA Basketball commitments, Goestenkors was honored with the 2005-06 Carol Eckman Award from the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA). The Eckman Award which is presented annually to an active WBCA coach who exemplifies Eckman's spirit, integrity and character through sportsmanship, commitment to the student-athlete, honesty, ethical behavior, courage and dedication to purpose.
That same year, Goestenkors was also named USA Basketball Coach of the Year for guiding the U-19 World Championship team to the gold medal.
A native of Waterford, Mich., Goestenkors attended Saginaw Valley State where she played for former Purdue head coach Marsha Reall. In her four years with the Cardinals, Goestenkors earned NAIA All-America honors, was named conference MVP and was selected to the Academic All-Conference Team.
Goestenkors led her team to a 114-13 overall record, along with a second-place, a third-place and two quarterfinal finishes at the NAIA National Championships. In the career charts at Saginaw Valley State, Goestenkors ranks second in steals (348), assists (469) and games played (127).
After earning her physical education degree in 1985, Goestenkors went on to serve as an Iowa State graduate assistant for the Cyclones during the 1985-86 season. From there, Goestenkors moved to the Big Ten Conference and Purdue, where she would spend the next six years as an assistant coach.
Under head coach Lin Dunn, Goestenkors helped Purdue emerge as a national powerhouse in women's college basketball. Goestenkors specialized in recruiting some of the nation's best talent for Purdue as the Boilermakers went 135-42 during her tenure, with five consecutive 20-win seasons and five NCAA Tournament berths. This included two Sweet Sixteen appearances, along with Purdue's first Big Ten Championship in 1991. That season, the Boilermakers were ranked third in the nation in the Associated Press final poll.
