They have two children, a son (b. They led in the opening minutes against undefeated UConn Huskies but ultimately fell to the eventual national champions. WBB 51. at CSU Bakersfield 42. [5], Center Colleen Galloway (197881) was the program's most notable player in its early days. Cal Women's Basketball Recruiting Conference: Pac-12 Head Coach: Charmin Smith (4th season in 2022-23) Official Golden Bears roster Unofficial Cal Women's Basketball Scholarship Chart Note: The NCAA granted an extra year of eligibility to 2020-21 D-I winter sports athletes (including women's basketball players). Conference regular season champion Lulu Laditan-Twidale, 5-10 G, Queensland, Australia [announced as signed 1/24/2023], Sofia Bell, 6-1 SG/W, St. Marys Academy (Portland, OR) [Cal among eight finalists announced in September 2021; committed to Oregon, November 2021], Chloe Briggs, 5-11 CG, Ontario Christian HS (CA) [offered July 2021; committed to Washington, August 2022], Ashley Chea, 5-8 PG, Flintridge Prep (La Caada, CA) [took an official visit to Cal, September 2022; committed to Princeton, September 2022], Ari Long, 6-0 SG/W, Valley View HS (Moreno Valley, CA) [Cal not among top three schools announced in September 2022], Nicole Melious, 5-8 CG, Susan Wagner HS (Staten Island, NY) [offered September 2020; committed to La Salle, September 2022], Khamil Pierre, 6-2 W, Perry HS (Gilbert, AZ) [offered May 2022; committed to Vanderbilt, August 2022], Sayvia Sellers, 5-7 PG, Anchorage Christian School (AK) [offered July 2021; committed to Washington, August 2022], Miyah Verse, 6-1 F, Mountain Ridge HS (Glendale, AZ) [offered November 2021; committed to Georgia, October 2022], See next page for 2024 commitments and targets for Cal womens basketball. In addition, the target lists are inevitably incomplete because offers are not publicly reported for many prospects. 805-756-1159. Features Archive. [34], In addition to their outstanding success on the court, Gottlieb's 201213 California team became nationally known as a team that had fun, while also keeping focus. The 10th-ranked Irish finished 15-3 in league play this season, a game ahead of No. He dreams of her hit "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" playing as balloons fall from the . Titans Drop Game Against UCSB, 74-58 February 20, 2023 A tight race ended in a loss for the Titans. 13 Arizona on the road in the regular season finale. Cal Poly Athletics Mott Athletics Center 1 Grand Avenue. Pac-12 Network. Women's Basketball - Cal State Fullerton Athletics 2022-23 Women's Basketball Roster - Cal State East Bay University Athletics For Cal head coach Charmin Smith, Jayda Curry is a first. Then in 2001, she moved to the University of New Hampshire, where she was an assistant under Sue Johnson. [26] Gottlieb led the Bears to a 17-1 conference record, making them Pac-12 Conference co-championsthe first conference championship in California Women's Basketball history. 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. Faith Mimnaugh - Head Coach - Women's Basketball Coaches 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. That is, the first player she has ever recruited to Berkeley without first seeing her play live. Women's Assistant Basketball Coach in SPRINGFIELD, MO for Evangel 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. Mimnaugh, a two-time Big West Coach of the Year, led Cal Poly to back-to-back Big West regular season championships in 2011 and 2012 as well as its first Big . [12] The team lived up to the expectations, finishing the regular season 282 and being ranked as high as No. 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. The 30-year-old Gottlieb was just the fourth head coach in UCSB history, and replaced retiring long-time coach, Mark French. Jarrod Olson - Women's Basketball Coach - CBU Athletics 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. But the Cougars stayed close by collecting 11 offensive rebounds, which led to 10 second-chance points. 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 - California Golden Bears Athletics University of California Athletics 2022-23 Women's Basketball Roster Go To Coaching Staff Print Roster Layout: Choose A Season: Sort By: Footer Video Platform powered by CBS Sports Digital Ad Blocker Detected Thanks for visiting calbears.com! 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. Harada will be embarking on his fifth season with the Titans in the fall of 2021. 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. That was more basketball games. Following her collegiate playing career, Smith joined the professional ranks in the ABL from 1997-98 as a member of the Portland Power and played three years in the WNBA, along with one year in the Swedish Basketball League. On June 12, 2019, the Cleveland Cavaliers hired Gottlieb to a four-year contract as an assistant coach, becoming part of new head coach John Beilein's staff. Pierre, Kai [43] Gottlieb became the first NCAA women's head coach to be hired by an NBA team. Smith experienced a number of successes in her first year as head coach, leading the Golden Bears to three upsets over higher-ranked opponents. [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. The young Bears (the starting lineup during conference play featured four freshmen along with star senior Alexis Gray-Lawson) had an up and down year, going 65 in non-conference play including a home loss to nearby San Jose State. 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. [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. [16] Gottlieb's 179 wins rank second all-time in team history. 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. Following Boyle's departure for Virginia, California hired UC Santa Barbara's Lindsay Gottlieb to be the ninth coach in Golden Bears history. Conference tournament champion, Source: 2011-12 Golden Bears Record Book and California Season Statistics. Titans Fall to Cal Poly 54-48 February 18, 2023 Fullerton's offense could not get passed a tough . 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. California Golden Bears women's basketball, 202223 California Golden Bears women's basketball team, AIAW National Division I basketball tournament, "Charmin Smith Named Women's Basketball Coach", "Another Kristine Anigwe record; another hard-fought Cal loss", "Galloway helped build foundation for Cal", "No. 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. Despite a semifinal exit in the Pac-12 Tournament, the Golden Bears earned a second seed in the NCAA tournament. 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. Copyright 2023 The Daily Californian, The Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved. The Bears were no better from long distance, making just one of their 10 shots from beyond the arc. 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. The first came in the form of a 4-point victory over No. [2] Gottlieb scheduled a demanding non-conference season, and the Gauchos pulled off a convincing 59-47 upset of Gonzaga. On the hardwood, Smith has helped coach the Bears to the top three individual seasons in program history. The team won their first NCAA tournament game in a quarter-century before falling in the second round to George Washington. - The University of California Official Athletic Site", "Special Season Ends with Loss to Louisville", "Cavaliers Hire Lindsay Gottlieb as Assistant Coach", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California_Golden_Bears_women%27s_basketball&oldid=1135224854, This page was last edited on 23 January 2023, at 11:26. [22] But Gottlieb's team came back after every tough loss to win. Offers come and go, so some offers listed may no longer be on the table, and some offers are erroneously reported. The first came in the form of a 4-point victory over No. CBU has put together a 234-80 record for a winning percentage of 74.5 in Olson's nine seasons. The Bears made the NCAA Tournament each of three years that Gottlieb was an assistant in Berkeley. 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. [2] WBB 54. vs Cal State Fullerton 48. Reed, Heidi A list of so many great coaches have received that award before me obviously (including) Muffet McGraw.. Utah women's basketball: Utes' Alissa Pili is Pac-12 Player of the Year 4y Adrian Wojnarowski. Apr 1. Harada, Jeff - Cal State Fullerton Athletics They really made it hard for us to run any kind of offense.". Gottlieb began her head coaching career with the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos where she spent three years and led the team to two regular-season Big West championships in 2009 and 2011, as well as the Big West tournament championship in 2009. However, this was a conference tournament game so it does not extend her active streak of 51 straight regular-season games with at least one made three-pointer. The Bears also recorded their best Pac-12 record (17-1) and won their first conference regular-season crown that season. Dontavia Waggoner, Boston College (160), Camryn Taylor, Virginia (86), 1. As the referees were assessing the sequence at the monitor, Mulkey could be seen telling them that Battles was talking to her. Of the 15 McDonalds All-Americans in Cal womens basketball history, Smith has helped sign 13 of them since joining the Cal staff in 2007, including an impressive haul in 2009 with a class that featured four All-Americans that served as the foundation to the Bears 2013 NCAA Final Four run. Dallas, Texas. Gottlieb and her coaching staff are very active on Twitter. 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. Women's Basketball - Cal State Fullerton Athletics 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. 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. Cavaliers hire Cal women's coach Gottlieb to staff - ESPN.com