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Women’s Basketball Alumna Gottlieb ’99 Named Cleveland Cavaliers Assistant Coach
6/12/2019 3:23:00 PM | Women's Basketball
CLEVELAND – Brown University women's basketball alumna Lindsay Gottlieb '99, has been named an assistant coach with the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association, the Cavaliers announced on Wednesday.
A 1999 graduate of Brown and a member of the Bears' women's basketball team, Gottlieb will join head coach John Beilen's staff as the first women's collegiate head coach recruited to an NBA staff.
Gottlieb has served as the head coach of the University of California, Berkeley women's basketball program for the last eight years from 2011-19, leading the Golden Bears to seven appearances in the NCAA tournament. She guided Cal to the Final Four in 2013 and completed her tenure with the Golden Bears with a 179-89 record.
During the 2017-18 season, Gottlieb brought her Cal team to face Brown at the Pizzitola Sports Center on Nov. 19, 2017, marking the first time in program history that Brown hosted a Pac-12 opponent. The No. 20 Golden Bears edged the host Bears, 89-79, but Brown set a program record with 16 made 3-pointers, and Shayna Mehta '19 set a single-game school record with nine 3-pointers.
Gottlieb won Brown's Heart and Soul Award as a senior, while also gaining her start in collegiate coaching as a student assistant coach. She moved on to assistant coaching positions at Syracuse (1999-2001), New Hampshire (2001-02), Richmond (2002-05), and Cal (2005-08) before earning her first collegiate head coaching position at UC Santa Barbara from 2008-11.
Read More:
• Cleveland Cavaliers: Cavaliers Hire Lindsay Gottlieb as Assistant Coach
• ESPN: Cavaliers hire Cal women's coach Gottlieb to Staff
• USA TODAY: Cleveland Cavaliers make historic hire of Cal women's coach Linsday Gottlieb
• NBA: Cavs hire Cal's Lindsay Gottlieb as assistant coach
• San Francisco Chronicle: Cleveland Cavaliers hire Cal's Lindsay Gottlieb as assistant coach
A 1999 graduate of Brown and a member of the Bears' women's basketball team, Gottlieb will join head coach John Beilen's staff as the first women's collegiate head coach recruited to an NBA staff.
Gottlieb has served as the head coach of the University of California, Berkeley women's basketball program for the last eight years from 2011-19, leading the Golden Bears to seven appearances in the NCAA tournament. She guided Cal to the Final Four in 2013 and completed her tenure with the Golden Bears with a 179-89 record.
During the 2017-18 season, Gottlieb brought her Cal team to face Brown at the Pizzitola Sports Center on Nov. 19, 2017, marking the first time in program history that Brown hosted a Pac-12 opponent. The No. 20 Golden Bears edged the host Bears, 89-79, but Brown set a program record with 16 made 3-pointers, and Shayna Mehta '19 set a single-game school record with nine 3-pointers.
Gottlieb won Brown's Heart and Soul Award as a senior, while also gaining her start in collegiate coaching as a student assistant coach. She moved on to assistant coaching positions at Syracuse (1999-2001), New Hampshire (2001-02), Richmond (2002-05), and Cal (2005-08) before earning her first collegiate head coaching position at UC Santa Barbara from 2008-11.
Read More:
• Cleveland Cavaliers: Cavaliers Hire Lindsay Gottlieb as Assistant Coach
• ESPN: Cavaliers hire Cal women's coach Gottlieb to Staff
• USA TODAY: Cleveland Cavaliers make historic hire of Cal women's coach Linsday Gottlieb
• NBA: Cavs hire Cal's Lindsay Gottlieb as assistant coach
• San Francisco Chronicle: Cleveland Cavaliers hire Cal's Lindsay Gottlieb as assistant coach
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