Lindsay Gottlieb

Lindsay Catherine Gottlieb became the ninth University of California womens basketball coach on April 25, 2011. In just her second season in Berkeley, Gottlieb led the 201213 Golden Bears to the first Final Four in school history, their first Pac12 Conference championship, and the most wins ever by a Cal womens basketball team . Gottlieb was named Pac12 Coach of the Year by the media, and was one of the four finalists for the Naismith National Coach of the Year. In her first season at Cal, Gottliebs Bears had a 2510 record, making her the first womens basketball coach to wingames in her first season at California. That year, Gottlieb led the Bears to the second round of the NCAA Womens Basketball Tournament. Gottlieb spent the previous three years as the head coach at UCSB where she led the team to two regularseason Big West championships in 2009 and 2011, as well as the Big West Tournament championship in 2009. She earned her 100th career victory on February 3, 2013.

Lindsay Gottlieb was born in Scarsdale, New York on October 2, 1977. Although most of her family members are lawyers, and her father was a New York state judge, Gottlieb was passionate about sports from an early age. Whatever sports season it was, I wanted to play, says Gottlieb. I pretty much just wanted to be playing ball all the time. She started playing organized basketball in the fourth grade and by the time she reached high school was hoping for a college basketball career. Spending her senior year of high school on the bench with a torn ACL led her to view the game from a different perspective, and to consider coaching.

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