1. Gail Ann Goestenkors was born on February 26,1963 and is an American basketball coach who was most recently an assistant coach for the Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball team.
12 Facts About Gail Goestenkors
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Gail Goestenkors is perhaps best known as the women's college basketball head coach of Duke University and the University of Texas at Austin.
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Gail Goestenkors led Duke from 1992 until 2007, when she was hired to replace the retiring Jody Conradt at Texas.
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At Duke, Goestenkors received recognition as the ACC Coach of the Year a record 7 times.
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Gail Goestenkors holds the ACC record for fewest games required to achieve 300 wins.
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Gail Goestenkors was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame as one of six members of the Class of 2015.
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Gail Goestenkors is often known as the "winningest coach not to have won a championship", being runner-up two times in fifteen years.
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Gail Goestenkors won the ACC Coach of the Year award in 2007 for the seventh time in fifteen years.
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Gail Goestenkors served as the head coach of the USA representative to the 1997 William Jones Cup competition The event was held in Taipei, Taiwan during August 1997.
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Gail Goestenkors served as an assistant coach to the national team in the 2002 World Championships, held during September in three cities in China, including Nanjing, China.
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Gail Goestenkors served as an assistant coach for the USA National team in 2006, a team in transition.
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Gail Goestenkors's ex-husband is Mark Simons, who was an assistant coach at a number of women's college basketball programs, including Georgia Tech, Auburn and Michigan State.