Gail Goestenkors

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Gail Goestenkors
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Goestenkors in March 2009
Biographical details
Born (1963-02-26) February 26, 1963 (age 61)
Waterford, Michigan, U.S.
Playing career
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.)
Head coaching record
Overall498–163 (.753)
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
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
Medal record
Women’s Basketball
Assistant Coach for Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2008 Beijing Team Competition
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FIBA World Championship for Women
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2006 Brazil Team Competition
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FIBA Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2005 Tunis Team Competition
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Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2004 Athens Team Competition
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FIBA World Championship for Women
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2002 China Team Competition
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William Jones Cup
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1997 Taipei Team Competition

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.

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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]

NCAA Tournaments

Goestenkors' 1998-99 Duke team finished in second place, losing to the Carolyn Peck-coached Purdue Lady Boilermakers in the championship game. [7] Along the way, Duke defeated the Tennessee Lady Vols in the Elite Eight, [8] 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). Duke's historic upset ended the Lady Vols' three-year run of national championships with a 69–63 victory over Tennessee in the final of the 1999 East Regionaland that sent shock waves through the sport. [6]

Goestenkors' 2004-05 squad made the NCAA Elite Eight and posted a 31–5 record despite the loss of National Player of the Year [9] Alana Beard to graduation.

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.

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", [10] being runner-up two times in fifteen years. Goestenkors also won the ACC Coach of the Year award in 2007 for the seventh time in fifteen years. [11]

USA Basketball

Goestenkors served as the head coach of the USA representative to the 1997 William Jones Cup competition The event was held in Taipei, Taiwan during August 1997. The USA team won their first six games. Four of the six were decided by six points or fewer, including the semifinal game against Japan which went to overtime. In the gold medal game, the USA faced undefeated South Korea. The Americans played to a six-point lead early in the second half, but could not extend the margin. South Korea came back, took the lead, and held on to win the championship and the gold medal 76–71. [12]

Goestenkors served as an assistant coach to the national team in the 2002 World Championships, held during September in three cities in China, including Nanjing, China. The USA won the opening six preliminary rounds easily, with no contest closer than 30 points. That included the opening round game against Russia, who has played them close in the 1998 Championship final. In the opening game, the USA won 89–55 behind 20 points form Lisa Leslie and 17 from Sheryl Swoopes. The USA wasn't seriously challenged in the quarterfinals, where they beat Spain by 39 points. The semifinal game against Australia was closer, but Leslie had a double-double with 24 points and 13 rebounds to help the USA team win by 15 points. In the championship game, much like the 1998 finals, the rematch was much closer. This time team USA did not have to play from behind, and had a ten-point lead late in the game, but the Russians cut the lead to a single point with just over three minutes remaining. The game remained close, and was within three points with just over twelve seconds to go, but Swoopes was fouled and sank the free throws to give the Americans a 79–74 win and the gold medal. [13]

Goestenkors served as an assistant coach for the USA National team in 2006, a team in transition. Lisa Leslie, who had led the team in scoring in the 2004 Olympics, the 2002 World Championships, the 2000 Olympics, the 1998 World Championships, and the 1996 Olympics was no longer on the team. Sheryl Swoopes was available but hampered by injuries, and Dawn Staley moved on to coaching. Newcomers Sue Bird, Candace Parker and Diana Taurasi picked up the slack, but it was a team in transition. As an additional challenge, some members of the squad were unable to join the team for practices due to WNBA commitments. The team started out strong, winning each of the six preliminary games, including the game against Russia. In the quarterfinals, the USA team beat Spain 90–56. The semifinal was a rematch against Russia, but this time the Russian team prevailed, 75–68. The USA faced Brazil in the bronze medal game, and won easily 99–59. [14]

Awards

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Duke Blue Devils (Atlantic Coast Conference)(1992–2007)
1992–93Duke 12–153–139th
1993–94Duke 16–117–95th
1994–95Duke 22–910–64th NCAA Second Round
1995–96Duke 26–712–42nd NCAA Second Round
1996–97Duke 19–119–7T–3rd NCAA Second Round
1997–98Duke 24–813–31st NCAA Elite Eight
1998–99Duke 29–715–11st NCAA Runner-Up
1999–00Duke 28–612–42nd NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2000–01Duke 30–413–31st NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2001–02Duke 31–416–01st NCAA Final Four
2002–03Duke 35–216–01st NCAA Final Four
2003–04Duke 30–415–11st NCAA Elite Eight
2004–05Duke 31–512–2T–1st NCAA Elite Eight
2005–06Duke 31–412–2T–2nd NCAA Runner-Up
2006–07Duke 32–214–01st NCAA Sweet Sixteen
Duke:396–99 (.800)179–55 (.765)
Texas Longhorns (Big 12 Conference)(2007–2012)
2007–08Texas 22–137–9T–7th NCAA Second Round
2008–09Texas 21–128–86th NCAA First Round
2009–10 Texas 22–1110–6T–4th NCAA First Round
2010–11Texas 19–147–97th NCAA First Round
2011–12Texas 18–148–108th NCAA First Round
Texas:102–64 (.614)40–42 (.488)
Total:498–163 (.753)

      National champion        Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion        Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion      Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

Source: [19] [20]

Personal life

Goestenkors's ex-husband is Mark Simons, who was an assistant coach at a number of women's college basketball programs, including Georgia Tech, Auburn and Michigan State.

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