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Molly Goodenbour’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

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IntroAmerican basketball player-coach
IsAthlete 
Sports coach 
Basketball player 
Basketball coach 
FromUnited States of America 
TypeSports 
Genderfemale
Birth8 February 1972, Waterloo
Age:48 years

Molly Colleen Goodenbour (born February 8, 1972) is a former college and professional basketball player and current head coach of the San Francisco Dons women’s basketball team.

College career

Goodenbour graduated from Waterloo West High School in Waterloo, Iowa and went on to play basketball at Stanford from 1989 to 1993. Goodenbour was a freshman reserve guard on Stanford’s 1990 National Championship team. As a junior in 1992, she was named Most Outstanding Player as Stanford repeated as national champions in 1992. In the tournament, she set the record for most three-pointers made with 18.

USA Basketball

Goodenbour was named to the team representing the USA at the 1995 Pan American Games, however, only four teams committed to participate, so the event was cancelled.

Professional career

Following her college career, Goodenbour played professional basketball for Linkspring Dambasket in Sweden in the 1995–96 season, then played in the American Basketball League for the Richmond Rage in 1996–97 and the Portland Power in 1997–98, and for the Sacramento Monarchs of the WBNA in 1999–2000.

Coaching career

Goodenbour coached women’s basketball for one year in 1994–95 for the University of San Francisco before embarking on her professional career. She returned to coaching in 2002 as associate head coach at Santa Rosa Junior College. She became head coach in 2003, guiding the team to two conference titles. She was named Bay Valley Conference Coach of the Year in 2005. In 2005, she returned to USF as lead assistant coach for one season, then was hired as head coach for the Chico State Wildcats in 2006. She was named California Collegiate Athletic Association Coach of the Year in 2008 as the Wildcats compiled a 28–6 record and finished the season ranked 17th in the Division II Coaches Poll.

Goodenbour was hired to coach women’s basketball at UC Irvine in 2008, where she remained for four years.

After her four-year stint as Anteater head coach, Goodenbour was hired as head coach of the Cal State Dominguez Hills Toros, replacing Van Girard, the winningest women’s basketball head coach in the program’s history. With her hire, Goodenbour became the fourth head coach in CSUDH women’s basketball history.

On June 8, 2016, Cal State East Bay hired Goodenbour as head women’s basketball coach, after Suzy Barcomb moved up to Division I Seattle.

Less than four months later on September 28, 2016, Goodenbour was hired as San Francisco’s ninth head women’s basketball coach after her former Stanford Cardinal teammate and previous Dons coach Jennifer Azzi resigned from the post as head coach two weeks earlier.

Personal

Goodenbour is married to Pat Fuscaldo, head men’s basketball coach at Sonoma State University.

Head coaching record

Junior college

SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Santa Rosa Bear Cubs (Bay Valley Conference) (2003–2005)
2003–04Santa Rosa24–613–1T–1st (Bay)CCCAA Elite Eight
2004–05Santa Rosa25–514–01st (Bay)CCCAA Regional
Total:49–11

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

College

SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Chico State Wildcats (California Collegiate Athletic Association) (2006–2008)
2006–07Chico State24–518–43rdNCAA D-II Third Round
2007–08Chico State28–617–31stNCAA D-II Second Round
Chico State:52–1135–7
UC Irvine Anteaters (Big West Conference) (2008–2012)
2008–09UC Irvine7–234–12T–7th
2009–10UC Irvine9–216–107th
2010–11UC Irvine15–157–95th
2011–12UC Irvine13–179–7T–3rd
UC Irvine:44–7626–38
Cal State Dominguez Hills Toros (California Collegiate Athletic Association) (2012–2016)
2012–13Cal State Dominguez Hills9–178–149th
2013–14Cal State Dominguez Hills20–1013–9T–3rd
2014–15Cal State Dominguez Hills26–719–3T–1stNCAA D-II First Round
2015–16Cal State Dominguez Hills22–1018–2T–1stNCAA D-II First Round
Cal State Dominguez Hills:77–4458–28
San Francisco Dons (West Coast Conference) (2016–present)
2016–17San Francisco5–40–0
San Francisco:5-40–0
Total:178–135

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion