![]() Frese in 2020 | |
Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | Maryland |
Conference | Big Ten |
Record | 582–161 (.783) |
Biographical details | |
Born | [1] Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S. | April 30, 1970
Playing career | |
1989–1992 | Arizona |
Position(s) | Guard |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1992–1993 | Pima CC (volunteer asst.) |
1993–1995 | Kent State (asst.) |
1995–1999 | Iowa State (asst.) |
1999–2001 | Ball State |
2001–2002 | Minnesota |
2002–present | Maryland |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 639–191 (.770) |
Tournaments | 42–17 (NCAA Tournament) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
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Brenda Sue Frese (born April 30, 1970)[1] is an American women's basketball head coach and former player. Since 2002, she has served as the head coach of the University of Maryland women's basketball team. In her fourth year as head coach, she won the 2006 Women's National Championship. She won the 2009 ACC Regular Season and Tournament Championships – the women's first ACC Championship since 1989. She won another ACC Championship in 2012 and reached another Final Four in 2014. Maryland moved to the Big Ten for the 2014–15 season and Frese led the Terrapins to an undefeated 18–0 conference record and a Big Ten Regular Season Championship in their first year in the Big Ten. The Terrapins advanced to their second straight Final Four and third under Frese in 2015. She was voted AP National Coach of the Year in 2002 and 2021,[2] ACC Coach of the Year in 2013, Big Ten Coach of the Year in 2002, 2015, 2019, and 2021, and MAC Coach of the Year in 2000. At Maryland, she's coached four ACC Players of the Year and four ACC Freshmen of the Year.