Courtney Banghart

Courtney Rosholt Banghart (born May 11, 1978)[1] is an American basketball coach who is currently the head women's basketball coach at North Carolina. Prior to North Carolina, she served as head coach at Princeton from 2007 to 2019.

Courtney Banghart
Courtney Banghart, March 2012
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamNorth Carolina
ConferenceACC
Record16–14 (.533)
Biographical details
Born (1978-05-11) May 11, 1978
Manchester, New Hampshire
Playing career
1996–2000Dartmouth
Position(s)Guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2000–2003Episcopal HS
2003–2007Dartmouth (assistant)
2007–2019Princeton
2019–presentNorth Carolina
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2000–2003Episcopal HS
Head coaching record
Overall270–113 (.705)
Tournaments1–8 (NCAA)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
7× Ivy League (2010–2013, 2015, 2018, 2019)
Awards
Naismith National Coach of the Year (2015)
2× Ivy League Coach of the Year (2015, 2018)
NJSWA Women's College Coach of the Year (2010)

Playing career

Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, Banghart graduated from Souhegan High School in Amherst, New Hampshire and Dartmouth College also in New Hampshire. As a guard, Banghart played for Dartmouth from 1996 to 2000, including the Dartmouth teams that won the 1999 and 2000 Ivy League titles.[2][3] She holds Dartmouth records for 3 pointers in a game, season, and career.[2]

Coaching career

From 2000 to 2003, Banghart was athletic director and head coach of the girls' basketball and girls' tennis teams at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia.[2]

As an assistant coach at Dartmouth, Banghart helped lead Dartmouth to two Ivy League Championships, and two NCAA appearances in 2005 and 2006. Dartmouth went 70-44 those seasons including 41-15 in Ivy League play.

In 2007, Banghart became the head coach for the Princeton Tigers. Her teams there won five outright Ivy League championships from 2010 through 2015, and, as a result, appeared in five NCAA Women's Division I Tournaments and a sixth "at-large" appearance in 2016. Her best team was the 2014–15 unit, which went 30–0 in the regular season and defeated Green Bay in the 2015 NCAA Tournament–the first (and to date, only) NCAA Tournament win in program history.[4] That same season saw Banghart notch her 164th win as Princeton head coach, vaulting her past Joan Kowalik to become the winningest coach in Princeton women's basketball history.

On February 3, 2017, against Dartmouth, her alma mater, Banghart notched her 200th win as a head coach.[5] She tallied her 250th career win on March 2, 2019, against Harvard.[6]

In April 2017, Banghart was selected to be an assistant coach for the 2017 USA Basketball Women's U23 National Team, which is composed of women, age 23 or younger, who are currently freshmen, sophomores or juniors in college.[7] The team competed in and won the inaugural U24 Four Nations Tournament in Tokyo, Japan.[8]

On April 30, 2019, Banghart was announced as the new head coach at North Carolina.[9]

Recognition

In 2015, the United States Basketball Writers Association named Banghart as Coach of the Year.[10] Fortune named her one of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders for "taking charge of a mediocre team that had never made the NCAA Tournament" while ensuring players met Princeton's academic standards.[11][12]

Head coaching record
Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Princeton Tigers (Ivy League) (2007–2019)
2007–08 Princeton 7–234–106th
2008–09 Princeton 14–149–53rd
2009–10 Princeton 26–314–01stNCAA First Round
2010–11 Princeton 24–513–11stNCAA First Round
2011–12 Princeton 24–514–01stNCAA First Round
2012–13 Princeton 22–713–11stNCAA First Round
2013–14 Princeton 21–911–3T–2ndWNIT Second Round
2014–15 Princeton 31–114–01stNCAA Second Round
2015–16 Princeton 23–612–22ndNCAA First Round
2016–17 Princeton 16–149–52ndWNIT First Round
2017–18 Princeton 24–612–21stNCAA First Round
2018–19 Princeton 22–1012–21stNCAA First Round
Princeton: 254–103 (.711)137–31 (.815)
North Carolina Tar Heels (Atlantic Coast Conference) (2019–present)
2019–20 North Carolina 16–147–11T-11th
2020–21 North Carolina 0–00–0
North Carolina: 16–14 (.533)7–11 (.389)
Total:270–117 (.698)

References
  1. "Women's Basketball Coaches Career". NCAA. Retrieved 28 Sep 2015.
  2. "Courtney Banghart". Princeton University Athletics. Retrieved November 25, 2016.
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/19991129033941/http://www.dartmouth.edu/student/athletics/publicity/wbk.html
  4. Princeton 2014-15 season statistics
  5. Murphy, Chris (February 6, 2017). "Women's Basketball Nets Two Huge Wins". dailyprincetonian.com. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  6. "Tigers Honor Seniors With Thrilling 61-58 Win; Banghart Earns 250th Career Victory". Princeton Athletics. March 2, 2019. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
  7. "Jeff Walz, Courtney Banghart And Michelle Clark-Heard To Lead 2017 USA Basketball Women's U23 National Team". usab.con. April 19, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
  8. "Women Capture U24 Four Nations Tournament Title". usab.com. August 15, 2017. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  9. Ryan Wilcox (2019-04-30). "UNC women's basketball names Courtney Banghart as its new head coach". Daily Tar Heel. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
  10. "Banghart Named Coach of the Year". Valley News. April 6, 2015. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
  11. Maine, D'Arcy (March 26, 2015). "Princeton's Courtney Banghart Joins Taylor Swift And Pope Francis On List". ESPN. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
  12. Casey, Tim (January 10, 2015). "At Princeton, a Student of Sports Leadership Successfully Applies Her Research". New York Times. Retrieved November 25, 2016.
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