Geno Auriemma, Mike Krzyzewski Share 2012 USA Basketball National Coach of the Year Award
University) were selected co-recipients of the 2012 USA Basketball National Coach of the Year award after each led the USA to a gold medal in the London Olympic Games and undefeated exhibition records in 2012.
G “The opportunity to coach the
Olympic Team is an amazing opportunity that you are very fortunate to have and all you want to do is a great job while putting the players in a position to be successful,” said Auriemma, 2012 U.S. Olympic/Women’s National Team head coach. “I thought our entire coaching staff, Doug Bruno, Marynell Meadors, Jen Gillom and everyone associated with our team from Carol Callan on down, were outstanding. We got all the resources and support that we needed, and I think I owe a debt of gratitude to all of them, along with Jim Tooley and Jerry Colangelo for what they do.
“So, I don’t know that it was me as
much as the support group we had around us and the great group of athletes I had the opportunity to coach. They were just unbelievably committed to winning, and I don’t know if I’ll ever be around a group like that ever again.”
This is the second USA Basketball
National Coach of the Year award for Auriemma, who also shared the honor with Krzyzewski in 2010, and is an unprecedented fifth award for Krzyzewski, who earned or shared the honor in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010.
“Well first of all, (this award means)
continuity,” Krzyzewski said. “In other words, in order to have an opportunity to keep winning them means you had great teams that accomplished. For any coach- ing award, it’s what the players have done. It’s LeBron James, and Kobe (Bryant), and Kevin Durant and all of those guys coming through. I’ve been a lucky guy to be a part of it for seven years, and in five of the years there was some kind of competition.”
The U.S. women’s gold medal was
an unprecedented fifth-straight Olympic gold, a feat never before accomplished in
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eno Auriemma (University of Connecticut) and Mike Krzyzewski (Duke
“Our two coaches built outstanding
teams for USA Basketball that our country was proud to cheer on in London,” said Jim Tooley, USA Basketball Executive Director/CEO. “From the start of their involvement with our national team programs, Coach K and Geno have exemplified the qualities they stressed to our players, including commitment, selfless service and excellence.” The USA Basketball Board of
Directors is responsible for selecting USA Basketball’s annual awards. The National Coach of the Year award was established in 1996 to recognize a USA Basketball head coach who, during the year of the award, made significant impact on the success of individual athlete and team performance at the highest level of competition.
Geno Auriemma led his gold medalist 2012 U.S. Olympic Team to wins over its opponents by an average of 34.4 points per game and extended the United States’ string of Olympic gold medal finishes to five straight.
USA Basketball National Coach Of The Year Award Recipients
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Year Coach 2012 Geno Auriemma, University of Connecticut Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University
2011 Jennifer Rizzotti, University of Hartford 2010 Geno Auriemma, University of Connecticut Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University
2009 Jamie Dixon, University of Pittsburgh 2008 Anne Donovan, USA Basketball Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University
2007 Anne Donovan, USA Basketball Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University
2006 Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University 2005
Gail Goestenkors, Duke University
2004 Van Chancellor, Houston Comets 2003 Larry Brown, Detroit Pistons 2002 Van Chancellor, Houston Comets 2001 Jim Boeheim, Syracuse University 2000 Nell Fortner, USA Basketball 1999 Larry Brown, Philadelphia 76ers 1998 Clem Haskins, University of Minnesota 1997 Mo McHone, Sioux Falls Skyforce 1996 Tara VanDerveer, Stanford University
any women’s traditional team sport, while under Krzyzewski’s hand the USA men captured a second-consecutive Olympic gold.
Geno Auriemma In the 2012 Olympic Games in
London, England, Auriemma led the USA women to an 8-0 record and piloted the USA Women’s National Team to a 5-0 record during exhibition play in 2012.
“Coach Auriemma led the way,
and he was never satisfied. He always wanted more from us as individuals and as a unit. It was more than just winning a gold medal, it was about playing basketball the right way,” said Diana Taurasi (Phoenix Mercury), three-time Olympic gold medalist and 2012 co-captain. Under Auriemma’s leadership, the
USA topped teams by an average of 34.4 points per game during the Olympics and listed No. 1 in 15 of 19 major statistical categories among the 12-team field, including points averaged (90.6), field goal percentage (.484), rebounding margin (+17.2), blocked shots (41), assists (185), steals (84) and assist-to-turnover ratio (1.67). The team also recorded 2012
Olympic single-game highs for points scored (114), field goals made (52),
field goals attempted (90), field goal percentage (.627), rebounds (62), assists
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