Maggie Dixon Award
The Maggie Dixon Division I Rookie Coach of the Year Award is an award given annually since 2007 to the head coach in women's college basketball in the NCAA Division I competition who achieves great success in their first year as a Division I head coach. Given by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA), the award is named for former women's head coach Maggie Dixon, who coached at Army for the 2005–06 season before suddenly dying due to valve complications from an enlarged heart.[1] Dixon had been named head coach just 11 days before the start of the season but led the Black Knights to a 20–11 record and won the Patriot League tournament championship.[2] It was Army's first basketball team, men or women, to play in the NCAA Tournament. Although Army would lose in the first round to Tennessee, Dixon was named the Patriot League Coach of the Year and received much praise from the college basketball community for her coaching job in just her first season. On April 6, 2006, Dixon died at the age of 28 to what her brother Jamie Dixon, then head men's basketball coach at Pittsburgh, described as an "arrhythmic episode to her heart."[2]
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Awarded for | the nation's top NCAA Division I rookie head coach |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) |
First awarded | 2007 |
Currently held by | Amaka Agugua-Hamilton, Missouri State |
Website | Official site |
Winners
Awarded the Naismith College Coach of the Year the same season |
Year | Coach | School | Record | Reference |
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2006–07 | Krista Kilburn-Stevesky | Hofstra | 26–8 | [3] |
2007–08 | Jeff Walz | Louisville | 26–10 | [4] |
2008–09 | Kelly Packard | Ball State | 26–9 | [5] |
2009–10 | Teresa Weatherspoon | Louisiana Tech | 23–9 | [6] |
2010–11 | Stephanie Glance | Illinois State | 24–10 | [7] |
2011–12 | Jennifer Hoover | High Point | 20–13 | [8] |
2012–13 | Holly Warlick | Tennessee | 27–8 | [9] |
2013–14 | Billi Godsey | Iona | 26–6 | [10] |
2014–15 | Lisa Fortier | Gonzaga | 26-8 | [11] |
2015–16 | Joni Taylor | Georgia | 21–10 | [12] |
2016–17 | Shauna Green | Dayton | 22–9 | [13] |
2017–18 | Bart Brooks | Belmont | 31–4 | [14] |
2018–19 | Carlos Funchess | Southern | 20–13 | [15] |
2019–20 | Amaka Agugua-Hamilton | Missouri State | 26–4 | [16] |
Winners by school
School | Winners | Years |
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Ball State | 1 | 2009 |
Belmont | 1 | 2018 |
Dayton | 1 | 2017 |
Gonzaga | 1 | 2015 |
High Point | 1 | 2012 |
Hofstra | 1 | 2007 |
Illinois State | 1 | 2011 |
Iona | 1 | 2014 |
Louisiana Tech | 1 | 2010 |
Louisville | 1 | 2008 |
Missouri State | 1 | 2020 |
Southern | 1 | 2019 |
Tennessee | 1 | 2013 |
Gallery
- Winners of the Maggie Dixon Award
- 2008—Jeff Walz, Head Coach Louisville Cardinals
- 2010—Teresa Weatherspoon, Louisiana Tech women's basketball head coach
- 2011—Stephanie Glance, head women's basketball coach at Columbia University
- 2012—Jennifer Hoover, Head Coach High Point University
- 2013—Holly Warlick, Head Coach University of Tennessee
References
- "Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- "The Maggie Dixon Story: An Inspiring Legacy". DePaul University. 20 November 2009. Archived from the original on 29 April 2010. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
- "Krista Kilburn-Steveskey bio". Hofstra University. 2010. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
- "Jeff Walz Named WBCA Maggie Dixon Rookie Coach of the Year". University of Louisville. 1 April 2008. Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
- "Packard Named Maggie Dixon Rookie Coach Of The Year". Ball State University. 30 March 2009. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
- "LA Tech's Teresa Weatherspoon Takes Home Maggie Dixon Division I Rookie Coach of the Year Accolade". SportsPageMagazine.com. 29 March 2010. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
- Reinhardt, Randy (29 March 2011). "ISU's Glance named top 1st-year basketball coach". Pantagraph.com. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
- "Hoover gets coaching award". Winston-Salem Journal. April 4, 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- Fleser, Dan (April 8, 2013). "Holly Warlick receives Maggie Dixon award for rookie coaches". Go Vols XTRA. Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
- Heyman, Brian (April 7, 2014). "Women's basketball: Iona's Billi Godsey named rookie coach of year". The Journal News. Gannett Company. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
- "Fortier Named National Rookie Coach of the Year". Gonzaga Bulldogs. 2015-04-06. Archived from the original on April 13, 2015. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
- "Taylor Named Spalding Maggie Dixon Coach Of The Year" (Press release). Georgia Bulldogs. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
- "Shauna Green Named 2017 Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year" (Press release). Women's Basketball Coaches Association. March 31, 2017. Retrieved April 5, 2017.
- "Belmont's Bart Brooks Named 2018 Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year" (Press release). Women's Basketball Coaches Association. March 26, 2018. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- "Carlos Funchess Named 2019 Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year" (Press release). Women's Basketball Coaches Association. April 3, 2019. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
- "Amaka Agugua-Hamilton Named 2020 Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year" (Press release). Women's Basketball Coaches Association. March 31, 2020. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
External links
- Maggie Dixon Award webpage. Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) official website