Molly Goodenbour

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Molly Goodenbour
Molly Goodenbour in 2016.jpg
Goodenbour at Kezar Pavilion in 2016.
San Francisco Dons
PositionHead 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 career1995–2000
Position Guard
Coaching career1994–present
Career history
As player:
1995–1996Linkspring
1996–1997 Richmond Rage
1997–1998 Portland Power
As coach:
1994–1995 San Francisco (asst.)
2002–2003 Santa Rosa JC (assoc. HC)
2003–2005Santa Rosa JC
2005–2006San Francisco (asst.)
2006–2008 Chico State
2008–2012 UC Irvine
2012–2016 Cal State Dominguez Hills
2016–presentSan Francisco
Career highlights and awards
As player:

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.

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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
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Santa Rosa Bear Cubs (Bay Valley Conference)(2003–2005)
2003–04Santa Rosa 24–6 [16] 13–1T–1st (Bay) [17] CCCAA Elite Eight
2004–05Santa Rosa 25–514–01st (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:

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Chico State Wildcats (California Collegiate Athletic Association)(2006–2008)
2006–07Chico State 24–518–43rd [21] NCAA Division II Third Round [22]
2007–08Chico State 28–617–31st [21] NCAA Division II Second Round [23]
Chico State:52–11 (.825)35–7 (.833)
UC Irvine Anteaters (Big West Conference)(2008–2012)
2008–09UC Irvine 7–234–12T–7th [24]
2009–10UC Irvine 9–216–107th [25]
2010–11UC Irvine 15–157–95th [26]
2011–12UC Irvine 13–179–7T–3rd [27]
UC Irvine:44–76 (.367)26–38 (.406)
Cal State Dominguez Hills Toros (California Collegiate Athletic Association)(2012–2016)
2012–13Cal State Dominguez Hills 9–178–149th [21]
2013–14Cal State Dominguez Hills 20–1013–9T–3rd [21]
2014–15Cal State Dominguez Hills 26–719–3T–1st [21] NCAA Division II First Round [28]
2015–16Cal State Dominguez Hills 22–1018–2T–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 18–1311–74th
2017–18 San Francisco 16–1510–85th
2018–19 San Francisco 7–242–16T–9th
2019–20 San Francisco 12–195–13T–8th
2020–21 San Francisco 16–1110–74th WNIT second round
2021–22 San Francisco 17–1610–83rd WNIT first round
2022–23 San Francisco 19–139–9T–4th WNIT first round
2023–24 San Francisco 14–1610–6T–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

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