Coming to the Hilltop with over a decade of head teaching expertise, the College of San Francisco girls’s basketball program and Head Coach Molly Goodenbour have introduced the addition of Jamie (Craighead) Turner to the teaching workers.
“We’re so excited so as to add somebody with Jamie’s expertise and data to our workers,” Goodenbour mentioned. “With over a decade of Division I head teaching expertise, she shall be an incredible asset to our group. Jamie is captivated with basketball, extremely organized, and may join with gamers, colleagues, and the broader neighborhood.”
Turner joins the workers after spending 9 seasons on the helm of the ladies’s basketball workforce at San Jose State. All through her tenure within the South Bay, Turner gathered 89 wins, the third most by any head coach in program historical past.
Underneath Turner’s steering, the Spartans reached the Mountain West Convention Event twice in 2015 and 2020, marking simply the second and third occasions this system superior that far within the convention match. As well as, the workforce’s 19 wins on the 2019-20 marketing campaign had been this system’s most for the reason that 1979-80 workforce gained 22 video games.
Within the 2019-20 season, her most profitable workforce, the Spartans posted the nation’s most vital single-season win turnaround, going from six victories in 2018-19 to 19 wins the next season. Led by the youngest teaching workers within the Mountain West, the Spartans completed in a tie for third place within the league standings, the all-time end for a workforce picked final within the convention’s preseason ballot.
Earlier than her time at San Jose State, Turner served as the pinnacle coach at Sacramento State from 2009-13. In 4 seasons with the Hornets, Turner was the winningest girls’s head basketball coach in 20 years, accumulating 51 victories, and the one coach to submit a profitable convention report for the reason that program entered the Massive Sky Convention in 1996-97.
In her ultimate season at Sacramento State, the Hornets set a number of program data in 2012-13, together with area targets, assists, blocked photographs, and the fewest turnovers dedicated. The workforce additionally led the Massive Sky in factors, three-pointers, and assists. On the defensive finish, the workforce topped the league in steals and blocks.
As a student-athlete at Oregon, Turner competed on the ladies’s basketball workforce from 1998-02 and helped information the Geese to a few NCAA Event appearances and a Ladies’s Nationwide Invitation Event (WNIT) title in 2002. When her enjoying profession led to 2002, Turner ranked second all-time in program historical past in three-point area targets with 182.
Turner is married to former student-athlete Melanie Turner who competed on the Hilltop as a member of the ladies’s basketball program from 1998-02.
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