Big West Conference Women's Basketball Coach of the Year

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Big West Coach of the Year
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Awarded forthe top women's basketball coach in the Big West Conference
History
First award1983–84
First winnerSheila Strike-Bolla & Jim Bolla, UNLV
Most wins8, UC Santa Barbara
Most recentJennifer Gross, UC Davis & , UC Irvine

The Big West Conference Women's Basketball Coach of the Year is an annual college basketball award given to head coaches in the Big West Conference.

The award was first given at the end of the 1983–84 season to husband and wife co-coaches Sheila Strike and Jim Bolla of UNLV. The program with the most awards is UC Santa Barbara with 8, with Mark French's conference-leading 7 awards and Lindsay Gottlieb garnering the award in 2009. Jennifer Gross is the only head coach to win five consecutive coach of the year honors, her most recent being after the 2020–21 season.[1]

Winners[]

Season Coach School Source(s)
1983–84 Sheila Strike-Bolla
Jim Bolla 		UNLV [2]
1984–85 Sheila Strike-Bolla (2)
Jim Bolla (2) 		UNLV (2)
1985–86 Joan Bonvicini Long Beach State
1986–87 Hawaii
1987–88 Cal State Fullerton
1988–89 Vince Goo Hawaii (2)
1989–90 Jim Bolla (3) UNLV (3)
1990–91 (2) Cal State Fullerton (2)
1991–92 UC Santa Barbara
1992–93 Vince Goo (2) Hawaii (3)
1993–94 Vince Goo (3) Hawaii (4)
1994–95 UC Irvine
1995–96 (2) UC Santa Barbara (2)
1996–97 (3) UC Santa Barbara (3)
1997–98 (4) UC Santa Barbara (4)
1998–99 North Texas
1999–2000 (5) UC Santa Barbara (5)
Faith Mimnaugh Cal Poly
2000–01 (6) UC Santa Barbara (6)
2001–02 UC Riverside
2002–03 (7) UC Santa Barbara (7)
2003–04 Idaho
2004–05 Cal State Northridge
2005–06 Long Beach State (2)
2006–07 UC Riverside (2)
2007–08 UC Davis
2008–09 Lindsay Gottlieb UC Santa Barbara (8)
2009–10 (2) UC Davis (2)
2010–11 Faith Mimnaugh (2) Cal Poly (2)
2011–12 Jason Flowers Cal State Northridge (2)
2012–13 Lynne Roberts Pacific
2013–14 Jason Flowers (2) Cal State Northridge (3)
2014–15 Laura Beeman Hawaii (5) [2][3]
2015–16 (2) UC Riverside (3) [2]
2016–17 Jennifer Gross UC Davis (3)
2017–18 Jennifer Gross (2) UC Davis (4)
2018–19 Jennifer Gross (3) UC Davis (5)
2019–20 Jennifer Gross (4) UC Davis (6) [4]
2020–21 Jennifer Gross (5) UC Davis (7) [5]
UC Irvine (2)

Winners by school[]

School Winners Years
UC Santa Barbara 8 1992, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2009
UC Davis 7 2008, 2010, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Hawaii[a] 5 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 2015
Cal State Northridge 3 2005, 2012, 2014
UC Riverside 3 2002, 2007, 2016
UNLV[b] 3 1984, 1985, 1990
Cal State Fullerton 2 1988, 1991
Cal Poly 2 2000, 2011
UC Irvine 2 1995, 2021
Long Beach State 2 1986, 2006
Idaho[c] 1 2005
North Texas[d] 1 1999
Pacific[e] 1 2013

Notes[]

  1. ^ Hawaii left the Big West Conference in 1996 to join the Western Athletic Conference, and rejoined the Big West Conference in 2012.
  2. ^ UNLV left the Big West Conference for the Mountain West Conference in 1996.
  3. ^ Idaho left the Big West Conference for the Western Athletic Conference in 2005 and are currently a member of the Big Sky Conference.
  4. ^ North Texas left the Big West Conference for the Western Athletic Conference in 2000 and are currently a member of Conference USA.
  5. ^ Pacific left the Big West Conference for the West Coast Conference in 2013.

References[]

  1. ^ #BigWestHoops [@BigWestHoops] (March 8, 2021). "One of the #BWWBB Co-Coaches of the year is @UCDavisWBB Jennifer Gross! ..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ a b c Big West Conference Women's Basketball Record Book (PDF) (March 2020 ed.). Big West Conference. p. 25. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Beeman named Coach of Year in Big West basketball". Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Big West Announces Women's Basketball All-Conference Lists and Awards". Big West Conference. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  5. ^ "BIG WEST ANNOUNCES 2020-21 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL MAJOR AWARDS". Big West Conference. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
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