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Molly Goodenbour

EDUCATION:
  • Stanford - 1989-93
YEARS AT SAN FRANCISCO:
  • Sept. 2016 - Present
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS AT SAN FRANCISCO:
  • Molly Goodenbour, a two-time national champion at Stanford who has over a decade of head coaching experience on the collegiate level, was named the ninth head coach in University of San Francisco women's basketball history on Sept. 28, 2016. This is Goodenbour's third coaching stint on the Hilltop, where she served as an assistant coach with the Dons during the 1994-95 and 2005-06 seasons.
  • In 2023-24, Goodenbour led San Francisco to a second-half resurgence as the team finished in a tie for third place in the West Coast Conference standings after starting the season with a 4-9 record. The program posted double-digit victories in WCC play for the fifth time in Goodenbour's tenure as the team finished at 10-6, highlighted by season sweeps of Pacific, Saint Mary's, Pepperdine, and LMU.  
  • San Francisco also finished the season strong, rolling eventual WCC Tournament Champions Portland on the road, earning 59-47 victory at Chiles Center.
  • Under Goodenbour's guidance, Jasmine Gayles and Debora dos Santos earned All-WCC First Team honors. Dos Santos recorded a career season, averaging a double-double with 15.3 points and 10.6 rebounds per game while Gayles led the squad in scoring at 16.8 points per game. Gayles also recorded the second 40-point game in program history as she dropped 40 points in an 81-68 win at Pacific on January 13.
  • The 2022-23 season under the leadership of Goodenbour concluded with an overall record of 19-13. Three Dons earned All-WCC Selections while two Dons earned WCC All-Academic Honors. The Dons also participated in their third straight WNIT.
  • Within the first six years on the Hilltop, Goodenbour posted impressive numbers, including becoming the winningest coach in USF history through 50 games (27-23), as well as through two seasons at 34-28 (.548). Goodenbour quickly built up her impressive resume at USF, becoming the first coach to post winning overall and conference records in her first two seasons on the job. 
  • Building off the program's strong start to the new decade, the Dons were once again punching a postseason ticket as they battled through a grueling non-conference schedule that kept them away from the Hilltop from Thanksgiving until after New Year's Day. Following an 0-4 start to WCC play battling through injuries and COVID-19 related pauses, the Dons went on to rattle off wins in six of their next seven games and finished with the third seed heading into the WCC Tournament. USF would go on to defeat Santa Clara in Vegas before returning home to host Air Force in the WNIT.
  • Since the start of the 2020-21 season, Goodenbour's Dons have made consecutive WNIT appearances and won at least one game in back-to-back WCC Tournaments. Led by two-time All-WCC first team selection Ioanna Krimili, USF's 2020-21 team led the conference in total points and points per game while being a top-four program in team plus/minus. 
  • Goodenbour’s third WCC Tournament in 2019 saw her lead the Dons to a first-round victory over Portland, marking the seventh year in a row the Dons advanced beyond their opening game.
  • Molly’s 2017-18 squad placed three WCC All-Conference and All-Academic honorees. Anna Seilund earned First-Team All-WCC and Second-Team All-WCC recipients Michaela Rakova and Kalyn Simon.
  • She finished her first year on the Hilltop in 2016-17 with an 18-13 overall record that included an 11-7 mark in West Coast Conference play, good for a fourth-place finish, the Dons' highest since the 2002-03 season. In the process, Goodenbour became the first USF head coach since Sue Rojcewicz in 1982-83 to post a winning record in her first year at the helm and compiled the second-best record by a first-year coach in program history. In addition, USF's 11 WCC wins under Goodenbour were the most since the 1996-97 campaign.
  • Under Goodenbour, the Dons led the conference in free-throw percentage at 77.8%, which stands as the best single-season percentage in program history. Goodenbour's team also led the WCC in 3-point shooting (34.6%) in 2016-17. Their 217 three-pointers made were the most in program history, including a program-best 15 3s in a win over Portland on Feb. 18, 2017.
  • Goodenbour's squad placed four student-athletes on the WCC All-Academic team in 2016-17 and boasted a pair of All-WCC honorees in first-teamer Rachel Howard and second-team recipient Anna Seilund.
OTHER CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Goodenbour came to USF from Cal State East Bay, where she was named head coach in June of 2016. She has previous heading coaching experience at Santa Rosa Junior College, Cal State-Chico, UC Irvine and Cal-State Dominguez Hills. Her overall career record, including two seasons at Santa Rosa JC, stands at 222-142 (.610).
  • Prior to her appointment at Cal State-East Bay, Goodenbour spent four seasons as the head coach at Cal State-Dominguez Hills. After taking over a program that had posted a 7-48 record in the previous two seasons, Goodenbour led the Toros to a 77-34 (.694) record in her four seasons. Under her guidance, the Toros won California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Tournament Championships in 2013-14 and 2014-15 and CCAA regular season titles in 2014-15 and 2015-16 and made three consecutive NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Championship appearances from 2013-16. Her 2014-15 squad won a school-record 26 games and earned the No. 2 seed in the NCAA West Regional.
  • Goodenbour began her coaching career at Santa Rosa Junior College in 2002-03. After one season as an associate head coach, she took over the head coaching duties for two seasons (2003-05) and led the Bear Cubs to a 69-21 record, two conference championships and a quarterfinal appearance in the California state championship.
  • Her second coaching stint at USF came during the 2005-06 season, when she served as an assistant on Mary Hile-Nepfel's staff. Following the season, she was appointed head coach at Chico State where she led the Wildcats to a 52-11 record and a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances. In 2007-08, she was named the CCAA's Coach of the Year after guiding her team to a 28-6 overall record, regular season and conference tournament titles along with a Sweet 16 appearance. The Wildcats finished the year ranked No. 17 in the nation among all Division II teams.
  • Goodenbour's first Division I head coaching job came at UC Irvine, where she served as the Anteater's coach from 2008-12. The Anteaters qualified for the Big West Tournament in each of her four seasons, posted the highest single-season win total (15 in 2010-11) in nearly a decade and had eight players earn all-conference honors during her four-year tenure.
PERSONAL HIGHLIGHTS:
  • A native of Waterloo, Iowa, Goodenbour was a standout performer at Stanford, where she was a four-year letterwinner under Tara VanDerveer from 1989-93. She helped the Cardinal to four straight Pac-10 championships, three NCAA Final Fours and a pair of NCAA Championships in 1990 and 1992. Goodenbour was named the most valuable player of the 1992 Final Four after setting an NCAA Tournament record for most postseason three-pointers made with 18. She finished her collegiate career with 1,040 points and still ranks among the school's career top-10 in three-pointers made (178), assists (441) and free throw percentage (.793).
  • She embarked on her professional playing career in 1995-96 with Linkspring of the Swedish Basketball Federation. A year later, Goodenbour returned to the United States where she played for the Richmond Rage (1996-97) and Portland Power (1997-98) of the American Basketball League. She also played one season with the WNBA's Sacramento Monarchs before retiring to further pursue her coaching career.
OTHER NOTABLES:
  • After graduating from Stanford with a degree in biology, Goodenbour was selected to the U.S. National team, which won a gold medal at the 1993 World Championship Qualifying Tournament in Brazil.
  • Goodenbour is married to Pat Fuscaldo, a former USF men's assistant coach who also served as head men's basketball coach at Sonoma State University for 26 seasons.