1. Lindsay Catherine Gottlieb was born on October 2,1977 and is an American basketball coach who is the women's head coach for the USC Trojans of the Big Ten Conference.
17 Facts About Lindsay Gottlieb
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Lindsay Gottlieb was previously the head coach of the California Golden Bears women's team before becoming an assistant coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association.
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Lindsay Gottlieb was named Pac-12 Coach of the Year by the media, and was one of the four finalists for the Naismith National Coach of the Year.
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That year, Lindsay Gottlieb led the Bears to the second round of the NCAA women's basketball tournament.
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Lindsay Gottlieb earned her 100th career victory on February 3,2013.
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Lindsay Gottlieb was born in Scarsdale, New York, and is Jewish.
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Lindsay Gottlieb followed in the tradition of both her parents and attended an Ivy League college, in her case Brown University.
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Lindsay Gottlieb 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.
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Lindsay Gottlieb's teammates voted her the Team Heart and Soul Award in 1999.
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At California, Lindsay Gottlieb was involved in recruiting and scouting, and was the team's academic liaison.
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The Bears made the NCAA Tournament each of three years that Lindsay Gottlieb was an assistant in Berkeley.
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On May 15,2008, Lindsay Gottlieb was named head coach of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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The 30-year-old Lindsay Gottlieb was just the fourth head coach in UCSB history, and replaced retiring long-time coach, Mark French.
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Lindsay Gottlieb was the first coach at UCSB to win 20 games in her first season.
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Lindsay Gottlieb has set an unequivocal goal of making the University of California Women's Basketball team one of the elite programs in the country.
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Lindsay Gottlieb became the first NCAA women's head coach to be hired by an NBA team.
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Lindsay Gottlieb was named the women's head coach at the University of Southern California on May 10,2021.