Jody Conradt

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Jody Conradt
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Current position
TitleSpecial assistant to the women's athletic director
Team Texas
Conference Big 12
Biographical details
Born (1941-05-13) May 13, 1941 (age 83)
Goldthwaite, Texas, U.S.
Playing career
1959–1963 Baylor
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Basketball
1969–1973 Sam Houston State
1973–1976 Texas–Arlington
1976–2007 Texas
Volleyball
1973–1975 Texas–Arlington
1976–1977 Texas
Softball
1973–1976 Texas–Arlington
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2007–present Texas (special asst. to women's AD)
Head coaching record
OverallBasketball: 900–307 (.746) [1] Volleyball: 165–67–15 (.698)[ citation needed ]
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Awards
Basketball Hall of Fame
Inducted in 1998 (profile)
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
Medal record
Women's Basketball
Head Coach for Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Pan American Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1987 Indianapolis Team Competition

Addie Jo "Jody" Conradt (born May 13, 1941) [2] is a retired women's basketball coach. She was the head coach for the women's team at University of Texas at Austin (UT). Her coaching career spanned 38 years, with the last 31 years at UT from 1976 to 2007. She also served concurrently as the UT women's athletic director from 1992 to 2001. During her tenure at UT, she achieved several notable personal and team milestones in collegiate basketball. At retirement, she had tallied 900 career victories, second place in all time victories for an NCAA Division I basketball coach. Conradt was inducted in the inaugural class at the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.

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High school and college

Addie Jo Conradt was born in Goldthwaite, Texas, United States to Ann and Charles Conradt. [3] Both her parents were athletic, with her mother playing competitively on a local softball team, and her father playing semi-pro baseball. [4] She was a standout basketball player at Goldthwaite High School, where she averaged 40 points per game. [3] Many people growing up in Goldthwaite stayed there, according to Conradt, but she got a sense that one could have larger ambitions when a Goldthwaite native, Marie Reynolds, joined the All American Red Heads Team, a barnstorming basketball team which played throughout the United States and around the world. [4] After high school, Conradt played collegiate basketball at Baylor University, earning a degree in physical education in 1963. [3] She finished her collegiate basketball career averaging 20 points per game. After graduation, she taught and coached at Midway High School in Waco [5] and earned her master's degree from Baylor in 1969. [6]

College coaching

Prior to Conradt's career at UT, she served as women's basketball head coach at Sam Houston State University from 1969 to 1973, where her teams had a record of 74–23. [7] She then coached at the University of Texas at Arlington from 1973 to 1976, where her teams had a record of 43–39. [5] [7]

In 1975, in response to Title IX, the University of Texas created a separate women's athletic department. In 1976, they hired Donna Lopiano to become the first women's athletic director. The following year, Lopiano hired Conradt as coach of the women's basketball team. [8] Conradt had attracted national attention while at the University of Texas at Arlington. After two losing seasons, they went 23–11 in the 1975–76 seasons, upsetting powerful opponents. [5] Texas planned to bring the women's program to national prominence, and they felt Conradt was the right coach for the job. [5] Teams coached by Condradt were using tactics not seen in many other places, such as full court pressure, double low posts and a transition game. [7]

In Conradt's first season, the team went 36–10. The team was ranked in the AP top ten in the nation all but one year in the 1980s, including a string of four years, from 1984 to 1988, where they earned the number one in the nation ranking. [5] The success translated into fan support — the team was averaging 7,500 fans per game by the end of the 1980s, including such state and national leaders as future governor Ann Richards and US Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. [8]

In the 1985 NCAA tournament, the Lady Longhorns lost a heartbreaking game to Western Kentucky 92–90. Watching the game was highly recruited Clarissa Davis, who had not yet decided where to go to school. She resolved to go to Texas and help them. [8] The following year, Texas would win the national championship with the first undefeated women's season, with a record of 34–0. [5] Although Davis wasn't a starter on the team, she ended up earning the tournament's most valuable player award. [8]

In 38 seasons Conradt's head coaching record was 900–306. At the time of her retirement, her 900 career victories were second only Pat Summitt. [9] During her tenure at UT, her record was 783–245. Between January 1978 and January 1990, Conradt's Lady Longhorns did not lose a Southwest Conference game, a streak of 183 consecutive conference victories. [8] From 1986 to 1991, Texas was the women's basketball attendance leader, including an NCAA record average of 8,481 for one season. [5]

Over her career, Conradt has coached: [10]

Conradt was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1998 and into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999. [11] [12] She was only the second woman inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame. [10]

Conradt was succeeded as UT women's basketball head coach by Gail Goestenkors, the former women's basketball head coach at Duke University.

In 2008, Conradt was honored, along with Dick Vitale, by the Atlanta Tipoff Club, with the Naismith Award, an honor presented annually that "pays tribute to the individuals who have made a significant impact on women's and men's college basketball". [10]

After retiring from coaching, Conradt continued to work for the University of Texas as special assistant to the women's athletic director. [13] [14]

Head coaching record

Basketball

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Sam Houston State Bearkats (TAIAW)(1969–1973)
1969–70Sam Houston State 17–2
1970–71Sam Houston State 18–7
1971–72Sam Houston State 19–7
1972–73Sam Houston State 20–7
Sam Houston State:74–23 (.763)
UT Arlington Mavericks (Independent)(1973–1976)
1973–74UT Arlington 9–14
1974–75UT Arlington 11–14
1975–76UT Arlington 23–11
UT Arlington:43–39 (.524)
Texas Longhorns (Independent)(1976–1982)
1976–77Texas 36–10 AIAW Region 4 Tournament
1977–78Texas 29–10 NWIT Runner-Up
1978–79Texas 37–4 AIAW Region 4 Tournament
1979–80Texas 33–4 AIAW Second Round
1980–81Texas 28–8 AIAW First Round
1981–82Texas 35–4 AIAW Runner-Up
Texas Longhorns (Southwest Conference)(1982–1996)
1982–83Texas 30–38–01st NCAA Elite Eight
1983–84Texas 32–316–01st NCAA Elite Eight
1984–85Texas 28–316–01st NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1985–86 Texas 34–016–01st NCAA Champions
1986–87 Texas 31–216–01st NCAA final Four
1987–88Texas 32–316–01st NCAA Elite Eight
1988–89Texas 27–516–01st NCAA Elite Eight
1989–90Texas 27–515–1T-1st NCAA Elite Eight
1990–91Texas 21–914–22nd NCAA first round
1991–92Texas 21–1011–33rd NCAA second round (Bye)
1992–93Texas 22–813–1T-1st NCAA second round (Bye)
1993–94Texas 22–910–43rd NCAA second round
1994–95Texas 12–167–7T-4th
1995–96Texas 21–913–1T-1st NCAA second round
Texas Longhorns (Big 12 Conference)(1996–2007)
1996–97Texas 22–812–4T-2nd NCAA second round
1997–98Texas 12–157–97th
1998–99Texas 16–1210–64th NCAA first round
1999–2000Texas 21–139–76th NCAA first round
2000–01Texas 20–137–97th NCAA first round
2001–02Texas 22–1010–65tt NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2002–03Texas 29–615–11st NCAA final Four
2003–04Texas 30–514–2T-1st NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2004–05Texas 22–913–32nd NCAA second round
2005–06Texas 13–157–9T-8th
2006–07Texas 18–146–10T-7th
Texas:783–245 (.762)SWC: 187-19 (.908)
Big 12: 243-159 (.604)
Total:900–307 (.746)

      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

Volleyball

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
UT Arlington Mavericks (AIAW)(1973–1975)
1973UT Arlington 27–9–3 T-9th AIAW National Tournament
1974UT Arlington 44–6–3 7th AIAW National Tournament
1975UT Arlington 34–14–2 AIAW National Tournament
UT Arlington:105–29–8 (.768)
Texas Longhorns (TAIAW)(1976–1977)
1976Texas 28–19–52nd AIAW National Qualifier
1977Texas 34–19–24th
Texas:62–38–7 (.612)
Total:167–67–15 (.701)

      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

Awards and honors

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ https://texassports.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/coaches/jody-conradt/626, Jody Conradt. The University of Texas at Austin
  2. ↑ "Women's Basketball Coaches Career". NCAA. Retrieved September 23, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 Porter 2005, p. 86
  4. 1 2 Skaine 2001 , p. 119
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Porter 2005, p. 87
  6. ↑ "Head Coach Jody Conradt". University of Texas Athletics. March 12, 2007. Archived from the original on August 14, 2007. Retrieved September 5, 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 Skaine 2001 , p. 120
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 Grundy & Shackelford 2005, pp. 202–208
  9. ↑ Schultz, Tracy (March 13, 2007). "For love of the game". SI.com. Archived from the original on October 26, 2012. Retrieved May 15, 2010.
  10. 1 2 3 "Jody Conradt and Dick Vitale Selected as Naismith Award Winners". Naismith Awards. March 14, 2008. Archived from the original on May 18, 2010. Retrieved May 15, 2010.
  11. ↑ "Hall of Famers". Basketball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 1, 2009.
  12. ↑ "WBHOF Inductees". WBHOF. Archived from the original on December 6, 2017. Retrieved August 1, 2009.
  13. ↑ "Staff Directory". University of Texas at Austin Athletics. Retrieved September 5, 2016.
  14. ↑ "Special Assistant Jody Conradt". Texas Athletics. Retrieved September 5, 2016.
  15. 1 2 "Past Russell Athletic/WBCA National Coaches of the Year". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved June 30, 2014.
  16. ↑ "Jody Conradt - Special Assistant - Staff Directory". University of Texas Athletics. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  17. 1 2 3 Skaine 2001 , p. 121
  18. ↑ Parish, Donald Ray Jr. (July 1, 2019). "Hall of Fame and Former Texas Longhorns Basketball Coach Jody Conradt by Donald Ray Parish Jr". VISIBLE Magazine. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  19. ↑ "Carol Eckman Award". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved July 1, 2014.
  20. ↑ "Jody Conradt (2000) - Hall of Honor". University of Texas Athletics. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  21. ↑ "Conradt honored with Lifetime Achievement Award by NACWAA - TEXAS LONGHORNS Official Athletic Site" . Retrieved June 20, 2010.

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