Gail Goestenkors

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Gail Goestenkors
Title	Head coach
College	University of Texas
Sport	Basketball
Team Record	0-0
Born	February 26, 1963 (age 44)
Place of birth	Waterford, Michigan
Career Highlights
Overall	396-99 (.800)
Awards
National Coach of the Year (2007)
School as a player
1981-1985	Saginaw Valley State University
Position	Point Guard
Coaching positions
1992 - 2007 April 2007 - present	Duke University University of Texas

Gail Ann Goestenkors (born February 26, 1963 in Waterford, Michigan), is the women's basketball head coach for the University of Texas. Previously, she was the women's basketball head coach at Duke University for 15 years from 1992-2007. During her tenure at Duke she lead the Blue Devils to 13 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances and an unprecedented seven consecutive 30-win seasons from 2000-2007.^[1]

She attended Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan, where she played under future Purdue head coach Marsha Reall. After graduating in 1985, she became a graduate assistant coach at Iowa State. After one season, she left to become an assistant coach at Purdue under Lin Dunn, where she remained until becoming head coach at Duke in 1992.

Goestenkors accumulated an impressive record at Duke and is one of the most accomplished women's basketball coaches in the nation. She won ACC Coach of the Year a record 7 times (1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2007). In 2002 she lead the Blue Devils to the first undefeated regular season in ACC women's basketball history--a feat repeated two more times during her tenure (2003,2007). Since 1995, she lead the Blue Devils to 13 consecutive NCAA tournament appearances, including 2 NCAA Championship appearances, 4 Final Four appearances, 5 ACC tournament championships, and 8 ACC regular season titles. She holds the ACC record for quickest coach to achieve 300 wins, after only 387 games.

1 NCAA Tournaments
2 Awards
3 Personal Life
4 References
5 External link

[edit] NCAA Tournaments

Goestenkors' 2004-05 squad made the NCAA Elite Eight and posted a 31-5 record despite the loss of National Player of the Year Alana Beard to graduation.

In 2003-04 with Beard leading the way, the Blue Devils advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight, boasted a 30-4 record, won a fifth-straight ACC Tournament championship and fourth-straight ACC regular season title. and broke the University of Connecticut's 76-game home winning steak with a 68-67 comeback victory in Hartford, Connecticut.

Goestenkors led the Blue Devils to an ACC-record 35-2 ledger in 2002-03 and their second straight NCAA Final Four appearance. For the second consecutive year, Duke posted a 19-0 record against ACC opponents. The 2001-02 season produced similar success. She led the Blue Devils to a 31-4 record and a NCAA Final Four appearance. Duke became the first ACC school to produce an undefeated 19-0 record in the ACC by winning the regular season and Tournament titles. The Blue Devils in 2000-01 posted a 30-4 record, won ACC Tournament and ACC regular season championships and earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The 2006-2007 season ended with a 32-2 record and notched her school's first ever undefeated regular season. She is often known as the "winningest coach not to have won a championship" being runner-up two times in fifteen years.^{[citation needed]}