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| Born | February 26, 1963 Waterford, Michigan, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1981–1985 | Saginaw Valley State | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Point guard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1985–1986 | Iowa State (grad. asst.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1986–1992 | Purdue (asst.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1992–2007 | Duke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2012 | Texas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Los Angeles Sparks (asst.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Indiana Fever (asst.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | Central Michigan (AHC) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | Kentucky (asst.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Overall | 498–163 (.753) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 4x NCAA Regional—Final Four (1999, 2002, 2003, 2006) 7× ACC Coach of the Year (1996, 1998, 1999, 2002–2004, 2007) Naismith Coach of the Year (2003) WBCA National Coach of the Year (2003) AP Coach of the Year (2007) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Women's Basketball Hall of Fame | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gail Ann Goestenkors (born February 26, 1963)[1] is an American basketball coach who was most recently an assistant coach for the Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball team.
She is perhaps best known as the women's college basketball head coach of Duke University and the University of Texas at Austin.[2] She led Duke from 1992 until 2007, when she was hired to replace the retiring Jody Conradt at Texas. Goestenkors left Texas following the 2011–12 season citing fatigue.[3]
At Duke, Goestenkors received recognition as the ACC Coach of the Year a record 7 times (1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2007). 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 repeated two more 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. 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).
In 2014–15, she was an assistant coach with the Indiana Fever and the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association.[4][5]
Born in Waterford, Michigan, Goestenkors attended Saginaw Valley State University, where she played under future Purdue head coach Marsha Reall. After graduating in 1985, Goestenkors became a graduate assistant coach at Iowa State. 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.
Goestenkors was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame as one of six members of the Class of 2015.[6]
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