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Gail Goestenkors  

In her 12 years at Duke University, Gail Goestenkors has helped lead the Blue Devils from relative obscurity to national prominence. Known as "Coach G" to players, coaches, fans and student supporters, Goestenkors has raised the level of the women's bask

Since arriving at Duke in 1992, Goestenkors has accomplished feats that no other women's basketball coach in school history has been able to achieve. She was the 1996, '98, '99, 2002, 2003 and 2004 ACC Coach of the Year (Duke's only multiple winner of the award and one of just two ACC coaches to earn it six times.

She was named to the USA Basketball Collegiate Committee in the summer of 2001, was an assistant coach on the gold medal winning 2004 USA Olympic team.

After earning a physical education degree from Saginaw Valley State in 1985, Goestenkors served as a graduate assistant for Iowa State. Goestenkors then moved to Purdue, where she would spend the next six years as an assistant coach

During the 2000-01 season, Goestenkors won her 200th career game with the Blue Devils, becoming the third fastest ACC coach in history to reach that mark.  In 2002-03, Goestenkors became the all-time winningest coach in Duke history and became the quickest coach in ACC history to reach the 300-win mark this past season in only 387 games.

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