Central Michigan University Athletics
Women's Basketball
Gail Goestenkors
- Title:
- Associate Head Coach
- Email:
- goest1g@cmich.edu
Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Famer Gail Goestenkors joined the Central Michigan staff in August, 2020 and serves as the associate head coach under Heather Oesterle.
Goestenkors resumé is among the most impressive in the game. She coached Texas from 2007-12 and Duke from 1992-2007 before working as a consultant and then assistant coach with the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks and Indiana Fever.
She served as an analyst for ESPN women’s basketball broadcasts from 2014-18 and has been the co-owner since 2018 of Coaching Full Circle, working with members of the MAC, Big Ten, Southeastern and Atlantic Coast conferences. She was an assistant coach for the U.S. Olympic team at the 2004 Games in Athens and at the 2008 Games in Beijing, helping the Americans to gold medals in both instances.
Goestenkors is a two-time Associated Press National Coach of the Year Award winner and seven times was named the ACC Coach of the Year at Duke. She took the Blue Devils to the Final Four four times, to the national title game twice, to eight ACC regular-season championships, and won five-consecutive ACC Tournament titles.
She led Duke and Texas to a combined 496-163 record and her Duke teams won at least 30 games in seven consecutive seasons (2000-07). In 2006, Goestenkors was named by USA Basketball as its Coach of the Year.
Goestenkors’ players have accumulated an impressive array of individual awards. Included in that total are eight National Player of the Year Awards, five Kodak All-Americans, seven AP All-American, seven National Freshman of the Year Award winners and five ACC Player of the Year Award winners.
In addition, her players earned a combined 53 all-conference honors in the ACC and in the Big 12 and a combined 75 academic all-conference accolades in the two leagues. Eleven of Goestenkors’ former players went on to play in the WNBA.
Goestenkors, who hails from Waterford, played at Saginaw Valley State from 1981-85. After earning a bachelor’s degree with a major in physical education from SVSU, Goestenkors served as a graduate assistant at Iowa State and then as an assistant coach at Purdue from 1986-02.
Goestenkors resumé is among the most impressive in the game. She coached Texas from 2007-12 and Duke from 1992-2007 before working as a consultant and then assistant coach with the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks and Indiana Fever.
She served as an analyst for ESPN women’s basketball broadcasts from 2014-18 and has been the co-owner since 2018 of Coaching Full Circle, working with members of the MAC, Big Ten, Southeastern and Atlantic Coast conferences. She was an assistant coach for the U.S. Olympic team at the 2004 Games in Athens and at the 2008 Games in Beijing, helping the Americans to gold medals in both instances.
Goestenkors is a two-time Associated Press National Coach of the Year Award winner and seven times was named the ACC Coach of the Year at Duke. She took the Blue Devils to the Final Four four times, to the national title game twice, to eight ACC regular-season championships, and won five-consecutive ACC Tournament titles.
She led Duke and Texas to a combined 496-163 record and her Duke teams won at least 30 games in seven consecutive seasons (2000-07). In 2006, Goestenkors was named by USA Basketball as its Coach of the Year.
Goestenkors’ players have accumulated an impressive array of individual awards. Included in that total are eight National Player of the Year Awards, five Kodak All-Americans, seven AP All-American, seven National Freshman of the Year Award winners and five ACC Player of the Year Award winners.
In addition, her players earned a combined 53 all-conference honors in the ACC and in the Big 12 and a combined 75 academic all-conference accolades in the two leagues. Eleven of Goestenkors’ former players went on to play in the WNBA.
Goestenkors, who hails from Waterford, played at Saginaw Valley State from 1981-85. After earning a bachelor’s degree with a major in physical education from SVSU, Goestenkors served as a graduate assistant at Iowa State and then as an assistant coach at Purdue from 1986-02.
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