Maggie Dixon Award

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Maggie Dixon Award
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Awarded forthe nation's top NCAA Division I rookie head coach
CountryUnited States
Presented by Women's Basketball Coaches Association
First awarded2007
Currently held by Kim Caldwell, Marshall
Website Official site

The Maggie Dixon Division I Rookie Coach of the Year Award is an award given annually since 2007 to the head coach in women's college basketball in the NCAA Division I competition who achieves great success in their first year as a Division I head coach. Given by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association, the award is named for former women's head coach Maggie Dixon, who coached at Army for the 2005–06 season before suddenly dying due to valve complications from an enlarged heart. [1] Dixon had been named head coach just 11 days before the start of the season but led the Black Knights to a 20–11 record and won the Patriot League tournament championship. [2] It was Army's first basketball team, men or women, to play in the NCAA Tournament. Although Army would lose in the first round to Tennessee, Dixon was named the Patriot League Coach of the Year and received much praise from the college basketball community for her coaching job in just her first season. On April 6, 2006, Dixon died at the age of 28 of what her brother Jamie Dixon, then head men's basketball coach at Pittsburgh, described as an "arrhythmic episode to her heart." [2]

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Definition of "rookie"

The WBCA defines a "rookie" coach as being in the coach's first season as a Division I head coach. However, coaches at programs that have transitioned to Division I are not eligible for the award if they served as head coach at that school before the start of the transition. Coaches who move to Division I from any coaching position with a professional team are not eligible, and interim head coaches are also ineligible. [3]

Winners

Awarded the Naismith College Coach of the Year the same season
YearCoachSchoolRecordReference
2006–07 Krista Kilburn-Stevesky Hofstra 26–8 [4]
2007–08 Jeff Walz Louisville 26–10 [5]
2008–09 Kelly Packard Ball State 26–9 [6]
2009–10 Teresa Weatherspoon Louisiana Tech 23–9 [7]
2010–11 Stephanie Glance Illinois State 24–10 [8]
2011–12 Jennifer Hoover High Point 20–13 [9]
2012–13 Holly Warlick Tennessee 27–8 [10]
2013–14 Billi Godsey Iona 26–6 [11]
2014–15 Lisa Fortier Gonzaga 26-8 [12]
2015–16 Joni Taylor Georgia 21–10 [13]
2016–17 Shauna Green Dayton 22–9 [14]
2017–18 Bart Brooks Belmont 31–4 [15]
2018–19 Carlos Funchess Southern 20–13 [16]
2019–20 Amaka Agugua-Hamilton Missouri State 26–4 [17]
2020–21 Kyra Elzy Kentucky 18–9 [18]
2021–22 Kelly Rae Finley Florida 21–11 [19]
2022–23 Shawn Poppie Chattanooga 20–13 [20]
2023–24 Kim Caldwell Marshall 26–7 [21]


Winners by school

SchoolWinnersYears
Ball State 12009
Belmont 12018
Chattanooga 12023
Dayton 12017
Florida 12022
Georgia 12016
Gonzaga 12015
High Point 12012
Hofstra 12007
Illinois State 12011
Iona 12014
Kentucky 12021
Louisiana Tech 12010
Louisville 12008
Marshall 12024
Missouri State 12020
Southern 12019
Tennessee 12013


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References

  1. ↑ "Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  2. 1 2 "The Maggie Dixon Story: An Inspiring Legacy". DePaul University. 20 November 2009. Archived from the original on 29 April 2010. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
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  16. ↑ "Carlos Funchess Named 2019 Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year" (Press release). Women's Basketball Coaches Association. April 3, 2019. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
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  18. ↑ "Kyra Elzy Earns Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA D-I Rookie Coach of the Year Award" (Press release). Kentucky Athletics. March 31, 2021. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
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  21. ↑ "Marshall's Kim Caldwell named 2024 Spalding® Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. April 3, 2024. Retrieved April 3, 2024.
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