important, when you add that Geno is a Hall of Fame coach who has led teams to Olympic and World Championship gold medals, and he is a coach who has won eight NCAA championships, it made the decision of having him lead our program for another four years a no- brainer. I witnessed first-hand at the London Olympics the caliber of coach he is and I feel extremely confident in Geno’s abilities to continue to build on the legacy of the USA Basketball Women’s National Team.”
“One of the most important ingredi-
ents of the USA Women’s National Team's success, which includes five straight Olympic gold medals, has been the continuity of our players,” said Carol Callan, USA Basketball Women’s National Team Director and chair of the USA Women’s National Team Steering Committee. “Our selection committee overwhelmingly decided that continuity of our head coach is also an important factor and we are extremely pleased that Geno Auriemma, with proven success at the 2010 FIBA World Championship, 2012 London Olympic Games and with his UConn program, is ready to guide our program for the next three years.”
Since 1996, the USA Basketball
Women’s National Team program, ranked No. 1 in the world by FIBA, has posted a spectacular 80-1 slate in FIBA and FIBA Americas international compe- titions, winning a record five consecutive Olympic gold medals (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012), three FIBA World Champ- ionship gold medals (1998, 2002, 2010), one FIBA World Championship bronze medal (2006) and one FIBA Americas Championship gold medal (2007).
This marks Auriemma’s sixth USA
Basketball coaching assignment. In addi- tion to his successful stints as the 2009- 12 USA Basketball Women’s National Team head coach and assistant coach for the 2000 U.S. Olympic Team, Auriemma also served as head coach of the 2001 USA Junior World Championship Team (U19) that finished with a 6-1 slate and the bronze medal; the 2000 USA Junior World Championship Qualifying Team (U18), which earned a gold medal; the 1996 USA Basketball Women’s Select Team, which trained against the 1996 USA R. William Jones Cup Team and the 1996 Russian Olympic Team; and the
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Auriemma guided the Huskies to an NCAA Division I basketball record 90 game winning streak that included the 2009 and 2010 NCAA titles.
Eight of Auriemma’s Huskies have
competed in at least one Olympic Games, the second most of any colle- giate program behind the University of Tennessee (14) and the most from any program since the USA’s streak of five straight gold medals commenced at the 1996 Olympics. Former UConn athletes who went on to earn Olympic gold medals include Sue Bird (2004, 2008, 2012), Swin Cash (2004, 2012), Tina Charles (2012), Asjha Jones (2012), Rebecca Lobo (1996), Maya Moore (2012), Diana Taurasi (2004, 2008, 2012) and Kara Wolters (2000). Further, Auriemma coached three international Olympians at UConn in Russia’s Svetlana Abrosimova (2000, 2008), New Zealand’s Jess McCormack (2008) and Nigeria’s Rashidat Sadiq (2004).
Geno Auriemma will be back along the sidelines directing the USA Basketball Women’s National Team in 2013-16.
West Team at the 1993 U.S. Olympic Festival. In all, USA teams with Auriemma on the sideline have posted a 36-1 record in official FIBA and FIBA Americas competitions. Including exhi- bition games, Auriemma has helped USA teams compile an overall record of 64-8 and a 47-8 mark as a head coach.
Auriemma was honored in 2010 and
2012 as the USA Basketball Co-National Coach of the Year and was named the 2000 USA Basketball Developmental Coach of the Year. At the helm of Connecticut since the
1985-86 season, Auriemma owned an astounding 839-133 record for a stunning 86.3 winning percentage through the 2012-13 season, when he captured his eighth NCAA title. His teams have advanced to the NCAA Final Four 14 times and collected a combined 37 Big East Conference regular season and Big East Tournament titles. Earning a combined 24 national
coach of the year trophies, Auriemma is also a 10-time Big East Conference Coach of the Year. Over a span of two-and-a-half
seasons, from the start of the 2008-09 season, through Dec. 30, 2010,
Under Auriemma, UConn has put
together four undefeated seasons. The first came in 1994-95 when the Huskies went 35-0. Auriemma orchestrated an unblemished record again in 2001-02 with a school record 39-0 mark, which his 2008-09 and 2009-10 squads equaled.
The first coach in women’s basket-
ball history to guide a team to six con- secutive Final Four appearances, Auriemma also is the fastest coach in NCAA Division I women’s basketball history to reach 800 career wins, a mark- er he hit on March 6, 2012, in 928 games.
Prior to his 28-year stint at
Connecticut, Auriemma spent four sea- sons (1981-85) as the primary assistant coach at the University of Virginia and also was an assistant coach at Saint Joseph’s University.
In addition to Callan, members of
the USA Basketball Women’s National Team Steering Committee include USA Basketball Executive Director/CEO Jim Tooley; WNBA appointee Reneé Brown, WNBA Chief of Basketball Operations and Player Relations; NCAA appointee Chris Plonsky, University of Texas Director of Women’s Athletics / Athletics External Services; and three-time Olympic and two-time FIBA World Championship gold medalist Katie Smith.
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