| Gail Goestenkors | ||
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| Title | Head coach | |
| College | Texas | |
| Sport | Basketball | |
| Team record | 21-12 (7-9) | |
| Born | February 26, 1963 | |
| Place of birth |  Waterford, Michigan |
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| Career highlights | ||
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| Awards | ||
| National Coach of the Year (2007) | ||
| Playing career | ||
| 1981-1985 | Saginaw Valley State | |
| Position | Point Guard | |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1985 - 1986 1986 - 1992 1992 - 2007 2007 - present |
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Gail Ann Goestenkors (born February 26, 1963 in Waterford, Michigan), is the women's basketball head coach for The University of Texas, having accepted the position on April 3, 2007, replacing the legendary Jody Conradt. Duke University 's 26 varsity sports teams known as the Blue Devils, compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Texas Longhorns women's Basketball team represents The University of Texas at Austin and competes in the Big 12 Conference. Events 747 BC - Epoch (origin of Ptolemy 's Nabonassar Era 364 - Valentinian I is proclaimed Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Waterford Township is a Charter township of Oakland County in the U Michigan ( is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. Jody Conradt (born May 13, 1941) is a retired women's basketball coach Goestenkors was the Duke University women's basketball head coach from 1992-2007. Duke University is a private Research University located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. During her tenure at Duke, she led the Blue Devils to 13 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, 10 consecutive appearances in at least the Sweet Sixteen (1997-2007), and an NCAA-record seven consecutive 30-win seasons from 2000-2007. Duke University 's 26 varsity sports teams known as the Blue Devils, compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The NCAA Women's Division I Championship is an annual Basketball tournament for women [1]
Goestenkors attended Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan, where she played under future Purdue head coach Marsha Reall. Saginaw Valley State University, commonly known as SVSU, is a State university in the U Boilermakers is the official moniker for the intercollegiate athletic teams of Purdue University. After graduating in 1985, Goestenkors became a graduate assistant coach at Iowa State. The Iowa State Cyclones (commonly referred to as the "'Clones" are the athletic teams of the Iowa State University. After one season, she left to become an assistant coach at Purdue under Lin Dunn, where she remained until becoming head coach at Duke in 1992. Lin Dunn is an American longtime women's Basketball coach She is most known for being the first coach and general manager for the Seattle Storm.
Goestenkors accumulated an impressive record at Duke and is one of the most accomplished women's basketball coaches in the nation. She received recognition as the ACC Coach of the Year a record 7 times (1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2007). The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. In the 2001-02 season, Goestenkors led the Blue Devils to the first undefeated regular season in ACC women's basketball history — a feat she would repeat two other times during her tenure at Duke (2003, 2007). During her final ten seasons at Duke, Goestenkors led the Blue Devils to NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen appearances every year, seven Elite Eight appearances, four Final Four appearances, and two appearances in the NCAA Championship game. The NCAA Women's Division I Championship is an annual Basketball tournament for women The NCAA Women's Division I Championship is an annual Basketball tournament for women The NCAA Women's Division I Championship is an annual Basketball tournament for women During her tenure, her teams won five ACC tournament championships and eight ACC regular season titles. Goestenkors holds the ACC record for fewest games required to achieve 300 wins (387 games).
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NCAA Tournaments
Goestenkors' 1998-99 Duke team finished in second place, losing to Purdue in the championship game. Along the way, Duke defeated the Tennessee Lady Vols in the Elite Eight, spoiling Chamique Holdsclaw's bid for a clean sweep of the National Championship (Holdsclaw had starred on Tennessee's National Championship teams as a freshman, sophomore and junior). The University of Tennessee (also known as UT) sometimes called the University of Tennessee Knoxville ( UT Knoxville, or UTK) is the flagship Chamique Shaunta Holdsclaw (born August 9, 1977 in Astoria Queens New York) is a former professional
Goestenkors' 2004-05 squad made the NCAA Elite Eight and posted a 31-5 record despite the loss of National Player of the Year Alana Beard to graduation. Alana Monique Beard (born 14 May 1982 in Shreveport Louisiana) is a professional basketball player for the Washington Mystics of the WNBA.
In 2003-04 with Beard leading the way, the Blue Devils advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight, boasted a 30-4 record, won a fifth-straight ACC Tournament championship and fourth-straight ACC regular season title. and broke the University of Connecticut's 69-game home winning steak with a 68-67 comeback victory in Hartford, Connecticut. The Connecticut Huskies, also known as the UConn Huskies, are the athletic teams of the University of Connecticut. The XL Center, formerly known as the Hartford Civic Center, is a sports and convention complex located in Hartford Connecticut, USA owned by the City of
Goestenkors led the Blue Devils to an ACC-record 35-2 ledger in 2002-03 and their second straight NCAA Final Four appearance. For the second consecutive year, Duke posted a 19-0 record against ACC opponents. The 2001-02 season produced similar success. She led the Blue Devils to a 31-4 record and an NCAA Final Four appearance. Duke became the first ACC school to produce an undefeated 19-0 record in the ACC by winning the regular season and Tournament titles. The Blue Devils in 2000-01 posted a 30-4 record, won ACC Tournament and ACC regular season championships and earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The 2006-2007 season ended with a 32-2 record and notched her school's first ever undefeated regular season. She is often known as the "winningest coach not to have won a championship", being runner-up two times in fifteen years.
Awards
- Associated Press National Coach of the Year (2007)
- ACC Coach of the Year (1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007)
- WBCA District Coach of the Year (1995, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
- USA Basketball National Coach of the Year (2006)
- WBCA/Rawlings National Coach of the Year (2003)
- Victor Award Coach of the Year (1999, 2003)
- Naismith National Coach of the Year (2003)
- GBallMag. com Coach of the Year (2002)
- Basketball Times Coach of the Year (2000)
Personal life
Goestenkors' ex-husband is Mark Simons, an assistant coach for the Georgia Tech women's basketball team. The Yellow Jackets is the name used for all of the intercollegiate athletic teams that play for the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta Georgia.
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