After beginning the season strongly and winning the Paradise Jam tournament in Saint Thomas, California carried their momentum into conference play. "I just wanted more for this group," Cal coach Charmin Smith, who completed her fourth season as the Bears coach. Cal YouTube. Segal, Karen
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[15], During Gottlieb's second season at UCSB, the Gauchos compiled a disappointing 15-17 record. Develop the athletic skills of each student-athlete in season and out . Faith Mimnaugh enters her 25th season as head coach of the Cal Poly women's basketball program having led the Mustangs to the Big West Tournament semifinals in three of the last four years, as well as to either the NCAA Tournament or WNIT four times since 2011. Division regular season and conference tournament champion Shes also the most efficient scorer in the Pac-12. More:Status remains uncertain for Notre Dame's Olivia Miles heading into ACC Tournament. BERKELEY - Charmin Smith, a mainstay on the Golden Bear bench for the last 12 seasons, has agreed to become the head women's basketball coach at the University of California, Berkeley, Director of Athletics Jim Knowlton announced on Friday. [21] They did pull off a 59-50 upset of #22 Virginia and their former coach Joanne Boyle. The assistant coach will work within the framework of the Evangel University mission statement and the goals of the Evangel Athletic Department to: Influence the Christian growth of all student-athletes. Smiths efforts also saw three players named to the Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll and another three receive All-Pac-12 Honors. . Keeping up where Boyle's teams left off, the 201112 Golden Bears returned to the NCAA tournament for the first time in three years, losing in the second round to eventual runners-up Notre Dame. Lindsay Catherine Gottlieb (born October 2, 1977) is an American basketball coach who is the women's head coach for the USC Trojans of the Pac-12 Conference. She was previously the head coach of the California Golden Bears women's team before becoming an assistant coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Editor's Picks. Smith has helped lead the Bears to the postseason in 11 of her 13 seasons and was also part of the staff that led the Bears to the 2010 WNIT championship. In 2007, Gottlieb was elevated to Associate Head Coach. In her first two years in Berkeley, Cal set then-school records for wins in a season, finishing both years with 27-7 marks before Cal pushed itself into elite status with the record-breaking 32-4 Final Four campaign in 2012-13. She has served on the Womens Basketball Coaches Association Board of Directors and was hired in April 2019 to serve as an assistant coach for the WNBAs New York Liberty. Postseason invitational champion 5. We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here. Influence all student-athletes to graduate with a professional degree. Division regular season champion The Bears, who finished with a 13-17 overall record, won two more games than they did last season, and Smith can see the improvement. She has served on the Womens Basketball Coaches Association Board of Directors and was hired in April 2019 to serve as an assistant coach for the WNBAs New York Liberty. According to Gottlieb, it took her "about 30 seconds" to accept. The team won their first NCAA tournament game in a quarter-century before falling in the second round to George Washington. Head coach Lynne Roberts team is the best in the Pac-12 and one of the best in the nation on the offensive side of the floor, averaging 86.8 points per game this season. The complete 2021-22 schedule for Cal women's basketball was released on Monday, and the one disappointment is that former Golden Bears coach Lindsay Gottlieb will not be returning to Haas . The Golden Bears made one appearance in the AIAW National Division I basketball tournament, with a combined record of 11. Conference regular season champion WBB Feb. 25 2 P.M. at UC Davis. Michelle Onyiah and Mia Mastrov had 10 points apiece for Cal. LOS ANGELES Cal State L.A. has named Tuonisia Turner-Lewis to be the University s next head coach for woman s basketball. Felton works extensively with Cals guards, helping develop a pair of All-Americans and First Round WNBA Draft Picks in Layshia Clarendon 13 and Brittany Boyd 15. TicketSmarter Ticket Resale Marketplace, Video Platform powered by CBS Sports Digital. The official Women's Basketball Coach List for the California Golden Bears More recently, Smith has worked extensively with Cal's post players, including 2019 National Defensive Player of the Year and four-time All-American Kristine Anigwe, who was selected by the Connecticut Sun with the ninth overall pick in the 2019 WNBA Draft. Deborah Gebhardt served as the Golden Bears' inaugural coach. We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here. Miller has had a stellar career as a player and coach. The program has been to the NCAA tournament a total of nine times, and won three conference championships. ND did so without star point guard Olivia Miles, who suffered a knee injury with the Irish trailing 26-22 late in the second quarter. Mid-June is an odd time of year to be looking to replace a women's basketball coach. California was invited the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2009, as an 8 seed. Cal has had ten 20-win seasons and made nine trips to the NCAA Tournament since Smiths arrival in Berkeley in 2007, highlighted by the programs first trip to the Final Four in 2013. [39] She has set an unequivocal goal of making the University of California Women's Basketball team one of the elite programs in the country.[40][41][42]. [4], Gottlieb was born in Scarsdale, New York, and is Jewish. The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy. "[9], When Gottlieb returned to Brown for her senior year in 199899, she was both a player and a student assistant, working with the coaching staff. Bonner, Bella
Notre Dame women overcome loss of Olivia Miles to clinch ACC regular-season championship, Status remains uncertain for Notre Dame's Olivia Miles heading into ACC Tournament, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy, Kennedy Todd-Williams, Jr., G, North Carolina. After three years, Smith left the Farm for Berkeley and joined the Golden Bear staff for the 2007-08 season. Smith became the 10th head coach in Cal women's basketball history after spending 12 seasons as an assistant on the Golden Bear staff, including serving as the program's associate head coach since 2012. After a 20-4 regular season and its first ACC title since 2019, third-year coach Niele Ivey is named the 2023 ACC women's basketball coach of the year. Under her supervision, the Bears have also continued to excel in the classroom, being recognized for their overall improvements in GPA each of the last three seasons.Felton came to Cal after spending the 2009-10 and 2010-11 seasons with the Oregon Ducks. Jayda Curry led Cal with 16 points while playing all 40 minutes, and she made one three-pointer. 2022-23 Women's Basketball Roster - USC Athletics USC Athletics Main Navigation Menu Sport Navigation Menu News Ticker Buy Tickets Instagram Opens in new window Twitter Opens in new window Facebook Opens in new window 2022-23 USC Women's Basketball Roster Print Download 2022-23_USC_WBB_roster.pdf Roster Layout: Choose A Season: Sort By: Footer Titans Drop Game Against UCSB, 74-58 February 20, 2023 A tight race ended in a loss for the Titans. "I pretty much just wanted to be playing ball all the time." That is, the first player she has ever recruited to Berkeley without first seeing her play live. The following year, the 24-year-old Gottlieb was asked by the head coach of the University of Richmond, Joanne Boyle, to be her top assistant. Conference regular season and conference tournament champion [28] They defeated Fresno State 90-76 in the first round,[29] and downed South Florida in overtime to advance to the Sweet Sixteen for only the second time in school history. In 200910 the Bears brought in a top 10 recruiting class to make up for the losses of Walker and Hampton. Langarita, Alma
Paul Reed joined the Cal women's basketball program as an assistant coach on April 30, 2021. At Cal, Reed will work with the post players, head recruiting efforts and assist on the defensive side of the ball. [8][9], Gottlieb followed in the tradition of both her parents and attended an Ivy League college, in her case Brown University. [24], With almost the entire team returning for the 201213 season, expectations were high, and the Bears were ranked #13 in the AP pre-season poll, their highest ranking since 2009. A four-year letter winner at Stanford, she earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in civil and environmental engineering from the school. SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. Faith Mimnaugh, the winningest coach in Cal Poly women's basketball history, announced her retirement Wednesday after 25 seasons at the helm of the Mustangs. 2 Stanfurd, 75-51, California Falls Short at No. Most notably, Utah junior forward Alissa Pili is the conference's Player of the Year and eighth-year coach Lynne Roberts is the Coach of the Year. She played basketball her freshman year as a guard for the Brown Bears, but after her mother died during her sophomore year, she decided to spend a year studying abroad in Australia. Highly-regarded throughout the coaching ranks at both the collegiate and professional levels, Smith has played a key role in building Cal into one of the premier programs on the West Coast, handling duties from recruiting and scheduling, to alumni engagement and campus equity and inclusion. They also took #4 Stanford to overtime on the road, before falling 74-71. But a good friend of mine, Angela Taylor, [who played at Stanford just before Smith arrived at Stanford], said, 'You can't skip steps in building it.'". The Golden Bears were ranked #13 in the AP pre-season poll, their highest ranking since 2009. 1156 HIGH STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95064 I can do that because I'm so confident in their focus. [43] Gottlieb became the first NCAA women's head coach to be hired by an NBA team. Head Coach. [12] UCSB won both the regular season Big West championship and the conference tournament championship for 200809, which secured an invitation to the NCAA tournament. They're creative, and they're smart kids. It was during that year abroad that she decided to pursue a coaching career seriously. The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy. In her first two years in Berkeley, Cal set then-school records for wins in a season, finishing both years with 27-7 marks before Cal pushed itself into elite status with the record-breaking 32-4 Final Four campaign in 2012-13. Senior leader Layshia Clarendon cut her hair into what became a trademark mohawk,[35] and the team wrote, produced, and starred in their own music video, "Started from the Bottom. Gottlieb was passionate about sports from an early age. [13] Following an overtime win over Georgia in the Elite Eight, California advanced to their first ever Final Four,[14] where they lost to Louisville. She began her coaching career in 2003 as an assistant coach at Boston College, where she spent one season before joining Tara Vanderveers coaching staff at Stanford. The current head coach is Charmin Smith, who was hired on June 21, 2019. Guards Jaelyn Brown and MiCole Cayton garnered Pac-12 All-Freshman Honorable Mention at the end of the 2016-17 season and McKenzie Forbes was an All-Freshman honorable mention in 2019. Spending her senior year at Scarsdale High School on the bench with a torn ACL led her to view the game from a different perspective, and to consider coaching. Cover photo of Mia Mastrov by Kyle Terada, USA TODAY Sports, Follow Cal Sports Report on Twitter: @jakecurtis53, Find Cal Sports Report on Facebook by going to https://www.facebook.com/si.calsportsreport. The Bears also recorded their best Pac-12 record (17-1) and won their first conference regular-season crown that season. [3] The arena was originally known as Men's Gymnasium and then later Harmon Gymnasium until the late 1990s when it went through massive renovations which displaced the team for two seasons. The University of Utah women's basketball team made history Saturday afternoon when it upset Stanford to claim a share of the Pac-12 title for the first time ever.. Less than 48 hours later, the . Schedule Schedule Feb 15 / Final Women's Basketball 58 at Long Beach State 68 Women's Basketball at Long Beach State February 15, 2023 7:00 p.m. Women's Basketball at Long Beach State February 15, 2023 7:00 p.m. Feb 18 / Final Women's Basketball 45 at UC Santa Barbara 63 Women's Basketball at UC Santa Barbara February 18, 2023 4:00 p.m. April Phillips joined the Cal women's basketball staff as an assistant coach in April 2019 and enters her second full season in 2020-21. At California, Gottlieb was involved in recruiting and scouting, and was the team's academic liaison. After the game, Mulkey chalked up the situation to "heat of the moment." WBB 51. at CSU Bakersfield 42. 13 Duke and No. The win over the Sun Devils made the Golden Bears just the second 12-seed to win a game in the Pac-12 Tournament. 50 conference games for Smith as head coach is only a milestone because it puts into perspective just how much the Bears have struggled over the course of the past four years in arguably the NCAAs best womens basketball conference. The Bears ended the 201112 season with a record of 25-10. [14] Gottlieb was named Big West Coach of the Year for 200809. The team plays its home games at Haas Pavilion, which was built on top of the old Harmon Gymnasium using money donated in part by the owners of Levi-Strauss. A mainstay on the Golden Bear bench for over a decade, Charmin Smith was named head coach of the Cal womens basketball team on June 21, 2019.Smith becomes the 10th head coach in Cal womens basketball history after spending the last 12 seasons as an assistant on the Golden Bear staff, including serving as the programs associate head coach since 2012. 4 Stanfurd in OT, Golden Bears Eliminated By Top-Seeded Irish, "California Meets Fresno State in NCAA First Round", "Cal women's basketball team reaches its first Final Four", "Special Season Ends with Loss to Louisville", Louisville 64, Cal 57, April 07, 2013, By Peter Finney Jr., The Sports Xchange, Reuters, "Video: Cal Women's Basketball "Started From the Bottom" music video", Golden Bears creatively spin Cal's success story with music video, By Matthew Snyder, "California Picked Second in Pac-12 Media Poll, Nov. 7, 2012", Cal's Gottlieb is the Leader of the New School, "Exclusive Interview: UC Berkeley Women's Varsity Basketball Coach LINDSAY GOTTLIEB", "Cavaliers Hire Lindsay Gottlieb as Assistant Coach", "Cavaliers hire Cal women's coach Gottlieb to staff", "Cleveland Cavaliers Asst. Smith becamethe 10th head coach in Cal womens basketball history after spending12 seasons as an assistant on the Golden Bear staff, including serving as the programs associate head coach since 2012. She started playing organized basketball in the fourth grade and by the time she reached high school was hoping for a college basketball career. Smith becamethe 10th head coach in Cal womens basketball history after spending12 seasons as an assistant on the Golden Bear staff, including serving as the programs associate head coach since 2012. Kara Lawson, Duke (142), 3. De Loy, Kiaira
On the hardwood, Smith has helped coach the Bears to the top three individual seasons in program history. 13 Arizona on the road in the regular season finale. 4y Adrian Wojnarowski. She and the Irish followed up last season by going 13-5 in the league to tie for third place and 24-9 overall in addition to advancing to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament. In 200607, California snapped Stanford's 50-game Pac-10 winning streak at Maples Pavilion en route to their first 20-win season since 1992 and a second consecutive NCAA tournament berth. [25] The Bears more than lived up to the expectations, compiling a 32-4 season record, and ending the regular season with a #6 ranking. Under Foster, California won consecutive conference titles in 198081 and 198182, and earned one AIAW and three NCAA tournament berths. Their play was marked by dominance in rebounding, particularly on the offensive boards. The 10th-seeded Golden Bears let a nine-point second-half lead slip away and lost to No. Under his guidance Mikayla Cowling and Asha Thomas both earned Pac-12 Honorable Mention at the end of the 2017-18 season while freshman point guard Kianna Smith was named to the Pac-12 All-Freshman team in 2018. The woes date to the beginning of Pac-12 play, as Cal womens basketball has won just one of its previous six games. [15] The following summer, Layshia Clarendon was drafted ninth overall in the 2013 WNBA draft by the Indiana Fever. During Smith's tenure as an assistant with Stanford, the Cardinal posted an 87-16 (.845) record and made a pair of NCAA Elite Eight appearances. Trending Videos. Cal has had ten 20-win seasons and made nine trips to the NCAA Tournament since Smiths arrival in Berkeley in 2007, highlighted by the programs first trip to the Final Four in 2013. In addition, the target lists are inevitably incomplete because offers are not publicly reported for many prospects. However, the second half success was not enough for an NCAA tournament bid and Cal wound up settling for the WNIT. One-time Cal women's coach Marianne Stanley was part of a 13-member class 2022 elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, it was announced on Saturday. Junior forward Alissa Pili leads the Utes offense in scoring with 19.8 points per game, the third best average in the conference. The all-time winningest coach in program history, Jess Strom is in her 12th season as head coach and 17th overall as a member of the California (PA) coaching staff. [20], Gottlieb's first team at California had no seniors, and started freshmen at point guard and forward. The current head coach is Charmin Smith, who was hired on June 21, 2019.[2]. All rights reserved. Muca, Sela
[19] Gottlieb inherited a very talented, but young team, which had ended the 201011 season losing seven of their last eight games. In her first season at Cal, Gottlieb's Bears had a 25-10 record, making her the first women's basketball coach to win 20 games in her first season at California. Danelle Bishop is in her 12th season (13th year overall) as the head coach of the Cal Poly Pomona women's basketball team in 2022-23.