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Janell Jones

EDUCATION
  • Oklahoma Christian – Class of ‘83
YEARS AT SAN FRANCISCO
  • 7TH Season
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS AT SAN FRANCISCO
  • Led San Francisco through a historic program run, which included making consecutive WNIT appearances and winning at least one game in the WCC Tournament in all but five of the six years since Goodenbour and Jones took over on the Hilltop. 
  • Named USF’s associate head women’s basketball coach on Oct. 24, 2016
OTHER CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
  • Worked as Molly Goodenbour’s (Current USF WBB Head Coach) top assistant at Cal State Dominquez Hills for the 2015-16 season when the Toros earned a share of the California Collegiate Athletic Association’s regular season championship. Named Toros head coach on July 29.
  • Served as head coach at UC San Diego (2005-07) and compiled a 50-10 overall record in two seasons. Led the tritons to a pair of NCAA Division II playoff appearances…Named CCAA’s Coach of the Year… Leora Juster earned Division II first team All-America honors.
  • Spent three seasons at Mercer (2007-10) where she played an integral role in the Bears’ 17-14 record in 2008-09, which was the program’s second winning season since 1996-97. Mercer jumped from No. 315 in the country to No. 162 under Jones.
  • Served as head coach at Cal State-Los Angeles for four seasons, leading the Golden Eagles to a program record-tying 21 wins and a consecutive appearances in the CCAA Tournament title game. She inherited a program that had just one winning season in the previous 10 years before leading CSULA to back-to-back winning campaigns in 2011-12 and 2012-13.
  • Served as head coach at Oklahoma City (2000-05) where she compiled an overall record of 175-14 (.926). Originally joined the Oklahoma City staff as an assistant coach in 1998 and helped the team to back-to-back NAIA titles in 1999 and 2000.
  • Named NAIA’s Coach of the Year in 2001 and ’02 after leading the Stars to a national championship in both seasons
  • Served as assistant coach at Oral Roberts in Tulsa, Okla. Following a three-year stint as the head coach at Carl Albert High School in Midwest City, Okla., where she led the Titans to the 1996 Oklahoma City Class 5A State Championship.
  • Produced three NCAA Division I players, including former WNBA player Paige Sauer.
  • Career head coaching record stands as 333-133 (.715).