At Cal, Reed will work with the post players, head recruiting efforts and assist on the defensive side of the ball. Jayda Curry led Cal with 16 points while playing all 40 minutes, and she made one three-pointer. 805-756-1159. Disclaimers: The roster information, offers, and commitments are all unofficial. Smith arrived at Cal for the 2007-08 under head coach Joanne Boyle and remained on staff when Lindsay Gottlieb became head coach in 2011-12. She was the first coach at UCSB to win 20 games in her first season. 4y Adrian Wojnarowski. 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. 8 Utah, has lost just one game this season and is perched atop the conference standings, having won its first thirteen games. The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy. 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. However, the second half success was not enough for an NCAA tournament bid and Cal wound up settling for the WNIT. 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. The team, led on the court by Oakland native Asha Thomas and 2019 WNBA draft first-round selection Kristine Anigwe, was eliminated in the second round by the Baylor Lady Bears, who went on to win the championship. [10], During Boyle and Gottlieb's first year at California, 200506, the Bears had their first winning season in 13 years and received their first NCAA Tournament bid since 1993. Harada will be embarking on his fifth season with the Titans in the fall of 2021. After beginning the season strongly and winning the Paradise Jam tournament in Saint Thomas, California carried their momentum into conference play. Its just a dream come true, Ivey admitted of the Coach of the Year honor. But the Bears could not hold off the Cougars, who went 8-for-11 from the field in the third quarter. The 2019-20 season marks Wendale Farrow's fourth season as an assistant coach for the Golden Bears. McGraw, Iveys Hall of Fame predecessor, took home the honor in 2014 at the end of Notre Dames first season in the ACC and again in 2016. But one or several members of Cals backcourt Curry, fellow guard Leilani McIntosh and Utah transfer and redshirt sophomore guard Kemery Martn will need to play an outstanding game offensively to accompany a strong defensive performance. 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. Smith became the 10th head coach in Cal women's basketball history after spending 12 seasons as an assistant on the Golden Bear staff . "[36] Coach Gottlieb explained: "My philosophy in general is that college athletics should be an enjoyable experience for the people involved in it. Privacy Policy. 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. Im honored, blessed. 2017) and a daughter (b. In the two years she spent at Syracuse, Gottlieb also earned a master's degree in the philosophy of education. We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here. [2][9], Gottlieb worked under Boyle for three successful seasons at Richmond, 200205. KK Bransford was accorded all-freshman team honors on the same day she was also named national freshman of the week by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association. Harada will be embarking on his fifth season with the Titans in the fall of 2021. [19] Gottlieb inherited a very talented, but young team, which had ended the 201011 season losing seven of their last eight games. There is no additional information to display. Smith arrived at Cal for the 2007-08 under head coach Joanne Boyle and remained on staff when Lindsay Gottlieb became head coach in 2011-12. The Cougars missed their first 11 three-point attempts and finished 2-fo-19 from distance. The third-year Irish coach was named ACC Coach of the Year on Tuesday evening. 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. 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. Their 13-5 record in conference play put them in second place in the Pac-12 Conference. The first intercollegiate women's basketball game was contested between intramural teams from California and Stanford in 1896,[4] and intramural competition at California continued in following decades. "But I'm going to think about that for two minutes, and for the next 10,000 minutes I'm going to think about what this group did for the University of California." The official Women's Basketball page for the California Golden Bears. Develop the athletic skills of each student-athlete in season and out . Division regular season champion 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 . 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 [5], Center Colleen Galloway (197881) was the program's most notable player in its early days. Pac-12 Network. 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. We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here. All rights reserved. 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. Under Foster, California won consecutive conference titles in 198081 and 198182, and earned one AIAW and three NCAA tournament berths. Mar 4 8 p.m. WBB. Division regular season and conference tournament champion 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. Over the course of her tenure, she has played a key role in the Bears player development, which has seen Cal produce seven WNBA Draft picks in recent years, including guards Layshia Clarendon, a 2017 WNBA All-Star and the ninth overall pick in the 2013 WNBA Draft, and Brittany Boyd, who earned WNBA All-Rookie recognition after being drafted ninth overall in 2015. Men's & Women's Basketball. 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. [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. This Friday, No. Following 12 consecutive losing seasons from 199394 to 200405, California began a resurgence under former Richmond head coach Joanne Boyle. Daunting Pac-12 matchups to come for Cal womens basketball. We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here. We could be disappointed to not be playing on Tuesday night," Gottlieb said. 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. Pac-12 . Cheryl Miller is the new head coach of the Golden Eagles women's basketball program at Cal State LA, the University announced Friday. He is the Titans' 11th head coach in the program's 51-year history. Smith played an integral role in the development of three of the Pac-10's top posts - Brooke Smith, Jayne Appel and Kristen Newlin - and in the spring of 2007, she switched her focus to working with the Cardinal guards, including three-time Pac-10 Player of the Year Candice Wiggins. On June 12, 2019, Gottlieb was hired by the Cleveland Cavaliers as an assistant coach, becoming the first NCAA women's basketball coach to be hired by an NBA team. Heide, Peanut Sundays loss to then No. 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. April Phillips joined the Cal women's basketball staff as an assistant coach in April 2019.Phillips comes to Cal after spending the last season at Arizona and previous coaching stints at Loyola Marymount and the University of New Haven.During her time in Tucson, Phillips helped Arizona to an impressive 2018-19 campaign in which the Wildcats captured the 2019 WNIT Championship and increased their win total by 18 from the previous season. Its unlikely that Cal pulls off the upset in either of this weekends games, but a win would feel like a breath of fresh air for Smith and her team. 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. ND went 10-10 overall and 8-7 in the ACC for sixth place during Iveys pandemic-shortened rookie year. McIntosh, Amaya View All Stories. "I think Cal played an unbelievable game," WSU coach Kamie Ethridge. Over the past two seasons, five Golden Bear guards have earned All-Conference recognition. We're an independent student-run newspaper, and need your support to maintain our coverage. 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. In short, theyre a top-15 team in the making and Cal may just be the easiest prey of all for Colorado at this point in the season. They reeled off 11 straight wins to open Pac-10 playincluding their first home win over rival Stanford in 20 yearsbefore slightly faltering down the stretch and finishing with a 153 conference record, tied for second. After an 03 conference start that left them two games under .500, the Bears started to find their form, going 125 the rest of the way including the Pac-10 tournament. [2], On May 15, 2008, Gottlieb was named head coach of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Miles playing status for this weeks ACC Tournament and beyond remained undetermined as of Tuesday, according to Ivey. 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. They have two children, a son (b. Reed comes to Cal after spending four years as Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator at University of Washington. Onyiah, Leilani Head Women's Basketball Coach Year at California (PA) 17th (12th as Head Coach) Alma Mater Penn State - 2005 Phone 724.938.5394 E-Mail strom@pennwest.edu 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. 20/20 Cal Hosts Washington, WSU - The University of California Official Athletic Site", "2007 Women's College Basketball Rankings and Polls for Week 18 - ESPN", "Joanne Boyle leaving Cal to coach at Virginia", "WNIT CHAMPIONS! Gray-Lawson returned for round 2, and the Bears romped through the remaining games against Utah, Oregon, BYU, Illinois State and finally Miami (FL) in the first ever championship game held at Haas Pavilion to win the tournament. 5. Division regular season champion A St. Louis native, Smith was a star player for Stanford from 1993-97, helping the Cardinal to three NCAA Final Fours and three Pac-10 titles. Smith has helped lead the Bears to the postseason in 11 of her 12 seasons and was also part of the staff that led the Bears to the 2010 WNIT championship. Pierre, Kai View Full Bio, Ugonne (Michelle) In addition, the target lists are inevitably incomplete because offers are not publicly reported for many prospects. The Gauchos received an invitation to the WNIT, where they lost a close game on the road to USC in the opening round, 67-64. 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. That is, the first player she has ever recruited to Berkeley without first seeing her play live. The official Women's Basketball Coach List for the California State University at Northridge Matadors Miles and fellow sophomore Sonia Citron were each named All-ACC first-teamers, a 10-player group, while junior Maddy Westbeld landed second-team honors. Junior forward Alissa Pili leads the Utes offense in scoring with 19.8 points per game, the third best average in the conference. Woj: Cavs make landmark hire with Lindsay Gottlieb (1:58) Adrian Wojnarowski explains the impact of the Cavaliers' decision to hire Cal women's basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb as an assistant coach. 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. They won the Big West regular season championship with a 12-4 conference record. I was speechless when I found out, Ivey said. She also oversaw the signing of the seventh-ranked recruiting class in the nation, the programs highest-ranked class since 2009. Boyle's first season ended in the Golden Bears' first NCAA Tournament appearance in fourteen years. TicketSmarter Ticket Resale Marketplace, Video Platform powered by CBS Sports Digital. California was invited the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2009, as an 8 seed. The California Golden Bears women's basketball team is the women's college basketball team of the University of California, Berkeley. De Loy, Kiaira 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. The talent gap was on full display last Friday in the Bears 43-63 loss to USC, a game in which Cal scored its fewest points by far this season. That same year, she was also awarded her B.A. 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. Kenny Brooks, Virginia Tech (137). [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. 2 Stanford nearly two weeks ago was made possible only by a strong defensive performance in which the Bears held the Cardinal to just 60 points. Copyright 2023 The Daily Californian, The Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved. Smith experienced a number of successes in her first year as head coach, leading the Golden Bears to three upsets over higher-ranked opponents. Foster retired in the spring of 1996, after 17 seasons at the helm. Cal's victory broke an 81-game conference winning streak for the Cardinal. Inside The Lair. 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. It is the first time since the Utes joined the league in 2011-12 that someone from Utah . [8] The Golden Bears were ranked No. 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. They led in the opening minutes against undefeated UConn Huskies but ultimately fell to the eventual national champions. Smiths efforts also saw three players named to the Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll and another three receive All-Pac-12 Honors. The Bears completed their second upset in the same week as just four days later, they defeated 5-seeded and No. 2022-23 Women's Basketball Roster - Cal State East Bay University Athletics Skip To Main Content Cal State East Bay University Athletics 11/12/22 / Final wbball 73 Northwest Nazarene 66 11/18/22 / Final wbball 64 Academy of Art 47 11/19/22 / Final wbball 85 Holy Names 46 11/22/22 / Final wbball Dominican (Calif.) Postponed 11/26/22 / Final wbball The official 2022-23 Women's Basketball Roster for 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. [23] In the second round they faced 1 seed Notre Dame on the Irish home floor. In 2021 . [22] But Gottlieb's team came back after every tough loss to win. WSU is assured a berth in the NCAA tournament, but Cal needed to win the conference tournament to get an NCAA tournament berth. The first came in the form of a 4-point victory over No. 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 . Boulder, CA Pac-12 Network Charmin Smith Head Coach A mainstay on the Golden Bear bench for over a decade, Charmin Smith was named head coach of the Cal women's basketball team on June 21, 2019. Trending Videos. 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. Bears' season is over after they let a 9-point lead in the third quarter slip away.