Molly Goodenbour

Molly Goodenbour

Goodenbour at Kezar Pavilion in 2016.
San Francisco Dons
Position	Head coach
League	West Coast Conference
Personal information
Born	(1972-02-08) February 8, 1972 (age 52) Waterloo, Iowa, U.S.
Career information
High school	Waterloo West (Waterloo, Iowa)
College	Stanford (1989–1993)
WNBA draft	2000: Expansion round, 20th overall pick
Selected by the Portland Fire
Playing career	1995–2000
Position	Guard
Coaching career	1994–present
Career history
As player:
1995–1996	Linkspring
1996–1997	Richmond Rage
1997–1998	Portland Power
As coach:
1994–1995	San Francisco (asst.)
2002–2003	Santa Rosa JC (assoc. HC)
2003–2005	Santa Rosa JC
2005–2006	San Francisco (asst.)
2006–2008	Chico State
2008–2012	UC Irvine
2012–2016	Cal State Dominguez Hills
2016–present	San Francisco
Career highlights and awards
As player: All Pac-10 (1993) NCAA Tournament MOP (1992) 2× NCAA champion (1990, 1992) As head coach: 2× CCAA Tournament (2008, 2015) 3× CCAA regular season (2008, 2015, 2016) Bay Valley Coach of the Year (2005) CCAA Coach of the Year (2008)

Molly Colleen Goodenbour (born February 8, 1972) is an American former college basketball coach and former professional basketball player who is the current women's basketball head coach at the University of San Francisco. Goodenbour previously was head coach at Santa Rosa Junior College, UC Irvine, and Cal State Dominguez Hills.

College career

Goodenbour graduated from Waterloo West High School in Waterloo, Iowa and went on to play basketball at Stanford from 1989 to 1993. ^[1] Goodenbour was a freshman reserve guard on Stanford's 1990 National Championship team. As a junior in 1992, she was named Most Outstanding Player as Stanford won their 2nd national championship in 1992. ^[2] In the tournament, she set the record for most three-pointers made with 18. ^{[1] [2]}

USA Basketball

Goodenbour was named to the team representing the US at the 1995 Pan American Games, however, only four teams committed to participate, so the event was cancelled. ^[3]

Professional career

Following her college career, Goodenbour played professional basketball for Linkspring Dambasket in Sweden in the 1995–96 season. She joined the Richmond Rage of the American Basketball League in 1996–97, who played in the inaugural ABL Championship. ^{[1] [4]} Goodenbour played in 40 games with 11 starts. She averaged 20.2 minutes per game, 7.3 points, 1.4 assists and 2.0 rebounds. ^[5] She was sixth in the ABL in three-point field goal percentage with .411. ^[6] During the playoffs, Goodenbour started all seven games for the Rage and averaged 8 points. ^[5]

Goodenbour signed with the New England Blizzard during the off-season, but was traded to the Portland Power on August 25, 1997 in exchange for a third round pick in the 1998 ABL Draft. ^[6] During the 1998 ABL Draft, the San Jose Lasers drafted Goodenbour, as she joined the league as an undrafted free agent. ^[7] She never signed with the Lasers and retired from playing.

Coaching career

Goodenbour coached women's basketball for one year in 1994–95 for the University of San Francisco before embarking on her professional career. She returned to coaching in 2002 as associate head coach at Santa Rosa Junior College. She became head coach in 2003, guiding the team to two conference titles. She was named Bay Valley Conference Coach of the Year in 2005. ^[1] In 2005, she returned to USF as lead assistant coach for one season, then was hired as head coach for the Chico State Wildcats in 2006. She was named California Collegiate Athletic Association Coach of the Year in 2008 as the Wildcats compiled a 28–6 record and finished the season ranked 17th in the Division II Coaches Poll. ^[1]

Goodenbour was hired to coach women's basketball at UC Irvine in 2008, where she remained for four years. ^{[1] [8]} On February 28, 2012, UC Irvine suspended Goodenbour for one game without pay for making what the university called an "insensitive" remark towards a student who had a disability. UC Irvine later placed Goodenbour on administrative leave from March 23 through the end of her contract on August 4; the university decided not to renew Goodenbour's contract. ^[9] Goodenbour had a 44–76 overall record at UC Irvine in four seasons. ^[10]

On May 30, 2012, Goodenbour was hired as head coach at Cal State Dominguez Hills, replacing Van Girard, the winningest women's basketball head coach in the program's history. With her hire, Goodenbour became the fourth head coach in CSUDH women's basketball history. ^{[11] [12]}

On June 8, 2016, Cal State East Bay hired Goodenbour as head women's basketball coach, after Suzy Barcomb moved up to Division I Seattle. ^{[13] [14]}

Less than four months later on September 28, 2016, Goodenbour was hired as San Francisco's ninth head women's basketball coach after her former Stanford Cardinal teammate and previous Dons coach Jennifer Azzi resigned from the post as head coach two weeks earlier. ^[15]

Personal

Goodenbour is married to Pat Fuscaldo, head men's basketball coach at Sonoma State University. ^[1]

Head coaching record

Junior college

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Santa Rosa Bear Cubs (Bay Valley Conference)(2003–2005)
2003–04	Santa Rosa	24–6 [16]	13–1	T–1st (Bay) [17]	CCCAA Elite Eight
2004–05	Santa Rosa	25–5	14–0	1st (Bay) [18]	CCCAA Regional
Santa Rosa:		49–11 (.817)	27–1 (.964)
Total:		49–11 (.817)
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

College

Source:

• San Francisco ^[19]
• WCC ^[20]

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Chico State Wildcats (California Collegiate Athletic Association)(2006–2008)
2006–07	Chico State	24–5	18–4	3rd [21]	NCAA Division II Third Round [22]
2007–08	Chico State	28–6	17–3	1st [21]	NCAA Division II Second Round [23]
Chico State:		52–11 (.825)	35–7 (.833)
UC Irvine Anteaters (Big West Conference)(2008–2012)
2008–09	UC Irvine	7–23	4–12	T–7th [24]
2009–10	UC Irvine	9–21	6–10	7th [25]
2010–11	UC Irvine	15–15	7–9	5th [26]
2011–12	UC Irvine	13–17	9–7	T–3rd [27]
UC Irvine:		44–76 (.367)	26–38 (.406)
Cal State Dominguez Hills Toros (California Collegiate Athletic Association)(2012–2016)
2012–13	Cal State Dominguez Hills	9–17	8–14	9th [21]
2013–14	Cal State Dominguez Hills	20–10	13–9	T–3rd [21]
2014–15	Cal State Dominguez Hills	26–7	19–3	T–1st [21]	NCAA Division II First Round [28]
2015–16	Cal State Dominguez Hills	22–10	18–2	T–1st [29]	NCAA Division II first round [30]
Cal State Dominguez Hills:		77–44 (.636)	58–28 (.674)
San Francisco Dons (West Coast Conference)(2016–present)
2016–17	San Francisco	18–13	11–7	4th
2017–18	San Francisco	16–15	10–8	5th
2018–19	San Francisco	7–24	2–16	T–9th
2019–20	San Francisco	12–19	5–13	T–8th
2020–21	San Francisco	16–11	10–7	4th	WNIT second round
2021–22	San Francisco	17–16	10–8	3rd	WNIT first round
2022–23	San Francisco	19–13	9–9	T–4th	WNIT first round
2023–24	San Francisco	14–16	10–6	T–3rd
San Francisco:		119–127 (.484)	67–71 (.486)
Total:		292–258 (.531)
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

Career statistics

Legend

GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game	RPG	Rebounds per game
APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game	BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game
TO	Turnovers per game	FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
Bold	Career best	°	League leader

College

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TO	PPG
1989–90	Stanford	26	-	-	48.0	45.5	86.7	0.7	1.1	0.4	0.1	-	2.7
1990–91	Stanford	29	-	-	35.4	32.6	95.5	1.8	1.7	0.9	0.1	-	4.9
1991–92	Stanford	33	-	-	44.7	42.3	73.6	3.3	5.4	1.6	0.2	-	12.3
1992–93	Stanford	32	-	-	39.1	38.5	79.6	3.8	5.9	1.6	0.3	-	13.2
Career		120	-	-	41.1	39.0	79.3	2.5	3.7	1.2	0.2	-	8.7
Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference. [31]

References

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