Jody Conradt

Jody Conradt
Sport(s) Basketball, volleyball
Biographical details
Born (1941-05-13) May 13, 1941
Goldthwaite, Texas
Playing career
1959–1963 Baylor
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Basketball
1969–1973 Sam Houston State
1973–1976 Texas–Arlington
1976–2007 Texas
Volleyball
1973–1975 Texas–Arlington
1976–1977 Texas
Head coaching record
Overall 900–307 (basketball)
165–67–15 (volleyball)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
  • NCAA Tournament championship (1986)
  • 10× SWC regular season (1983–1990, 1993, 1996)
  • 2× Big 12 regular season (2003, 2004)
  • 9× SWC tournament (1983–1990, 1994)
  • Big 12 tournament (2003)
Basketball Hall of Fame
Inducted in 1998 (profile)
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
Medal record
Women’s Basketball
Head Coach for  United States
Pan American Games
1987 Indianapolis Team Competition

Jody Conradt (born May 13, 1941)[1] is a retired women's basketball coach. She was the head coach for the women's team at University of Texas at Austin (UT). Her coaching career spanned 38 years, with the last 31 years at UT from 1976 to 2007. She also served concurrently as the UT women's athletic director from 1992 to 2001. During her tenure at UT, she achieved several notable personal and team milestones in collegiate basketball. At retirement, she had tallied 900 career victories, second place in all time victories for a NCAA Division I basketball coach.

High school and college

She was born in Goldthwaite, Texas, United States to Ann and Charles Conradt.[2] Both her parents were athletic, with her mother playing competitively on a local softball team, and her father playing semi-pro baseball.[3] She was a standout basketball player at Goldthwaite High School (Texas), where she averaged 40 points per game.[2] Many people growing up in Goldthwaite stayed there, according to Condradt, but she got a sense that one could have larger ambitions when a Goldthwaite native, Marie Reynolds, joined the All American Red Heads Team a barnstorming basketball team which played throughout the United States and around the world.[3] After high school, she played collegiate basketball at Baylor University, earning a degree in physical education in 1963.[2] She finished her collegiate basketball career averaging 20 points per game. After graduation, she taught and coached at Waco Midway High School[4] and earned her master's degree from Baylor in 1969.

College coaching

Prior to her career at UT she served as women's basketball head coach at Sam Houston State University from 1969 to 1973, where her teams had a record of 74–23.[5] Then she coached at the University of Texas at Arlington from 1973 to 1976, where her teams had a record of 43–39.[4][5]

In 1975, in response to Title IX, the University of Texas created a separate women's athletic department. In 1976, they hired Donna Lopiano to become the first woman's athletic director. The following year, Lopiano hired Conradt to become the coach of the woman's basketball team.[6] Conradt had attracted national attention while at the University of Texas at Arlington. After two losing seasons, they went 23–11 in the 1975–76 seasons, upsetting powerful opponents.[4] Texas planned to bring the woman's program to national prominence, and they felt Conradt was the right coach for the job.[4] Teams coached by Condradt were using tactics not seen in many other places, such as full court pressure, double low posts and a transition game.[5]

In Conradt's first season, the team went 36–10. The team was ranked in the AP top ten in the nation all but one year in the 1980s, including a string of four years 1984–1988, where they earned the number one in the nation ranking.[4] The success translated into fan support—the team was averaging 7,500 fans per game by the end of the 1980s, including such state and national leaders as future governor Ann Richards and US Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.[6]

In the 1985 NCAA tournament, the Lady Longhorns lost a heart-breaking game to Western Kentucky 92–90. Watching the game was highly recruited Clarissa Davis, who had not yet decided where to go to school. She resolved to go to Texas, and help them.[6] The following year, Texas would win the national championship with the first undefeated women's season, with a record of 34–0.[4] Although Davis wasn't a starter on the team, she ended up earning the tournament most valuable player award.[6]

In 38 seasons her head coaching record was 900–306. Her 900 career victories is second only to that of Pat Summitt.[7] During her tenure at UT, her record was 783–245. Between January 1978, and January 1990, Conradt's Lady Longhorns did not lose a Southwest Conference game, a streak of 183 consecutive conference victories.[6] From 1986 to 1991, Texas was the women's basketball attendance leader, including an NCAA record average of 8,481 for one season.[4]

Over her career, Conradt has coached:[8]

Conradt was inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1998 and into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.[9][10] She is only the second woman inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame.[8] She was succeeded as UT women's basketball head coach by Gail Goestenkors, the former women's basketball head coach at Duke University.

In 2008, Conradt was honored, along with Dick Vitale, by the Atlanta Tipoff Club, with the Naismith Award, an honor presented annually that "pays tribute to the individuals who have made a significant impact on women’s and men’s college basketball".[8]

Awards and honors

Milestones

Head coaching record

Basketball

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Sam Houston State Bearkats (Independent) (1969–1973)
1969–70 Sam Houston State 15–4
1970–71 Sam Houston State 20–7
1971–72 Sam Houston State 19–7
1972–73 Sam Houston State 20–7
Sam Houston State: 74–25 (.747)
Texas–Arlington Mavericks (Independent) (1973–1976)
1973–74 Texas–Arlington 9–14
1974–75 Texas–Arlington 11–14
1975–76 Texas–Arlington 23–11
Texas–Arlington: 43–39 (.524)
Texas Longhorns (Independent) (1976–1982)
1976–77 Texas 36–10 AIAW – 3rd (Regionals)
1977–78 Texas 29–10 AIAW – 5th (Regionals)
1978–79 Texas 37–4 AIAW – 3rd (Regionals)
1979–80 Texas 33–4 AIAW – 7th (National)
1980–81 Texas 28–8 AIAW – 3rd (Regionals)
1981–82 Texas 35–4 AIAW Runners-up
Texas (Independent): 198–40
Texas Longhorns (Southwest Conference) (1982–1996)
1982–83 Texas 30–3 8–0 1st NCAA Elite Eight
1983–84 Texas 32–3 16–0 1st NCAA Elite Eight
1984–85 Texas 28–3 16–0 1st NCAA Sweet 16
1985–86 Texas 34–0 16–0 1st NCAA Champions
1986–87 Texas 31–2 16–0 1st NCAA Final Four
1987–88 Texas 32–3 16–0 1st NCAA Elite Eight
1988–89 Texas 27–5 16–0 1st NCAA Elite Eight
1989–90 Texas 27–5 15–1 T–1st NCAA Elite Eight
1990–91 Texas 21–9 14–2 2nd NCAA 1st Round
1991–92 Texas 21–10 11–3 2nd NCAA 2nd Round
1992–93 Texas 22–8 13–1 T–1st NCAA 2nd Round
1993–94 Texas 22–9 10–4 3rd NCAA 2nd Round
1994–95 Texas 12–16 7–7 T–4th
1995–96 Texas 21–9 13–1 T–1st NCAA 2nd Round
Texas (SWC): 360–85 (.809) 187–19 (.908)
Texas Longhorns (Big 12 Conference) (1996–2007)
1996–97 Texas 22–8 12–4 T–2nd NCAA 2nd Round
1997–98 Texas 12–15 7–9 7th
1998–19 Texas 16–12 10–6 4th NCAA 1st Round
1999–2000 Texas 21–13 9–7 6th NCAA 1st Round
2000–01 Texas 20–13 7–9 7th NCAA 1st Round
2001–02 Texas 22–10 10–6 5th NCAA Sweet 16
2002–03 Texas 29–6 15–1 1st NCAA Final Four
2003–04 Texas 30–5 14–2 T–1st NCAA Sweet 16
2004–05 Texas 22–9 13–3 2nd NCAA 2nd Round
2005–06 Texas 13–15 7–9 T–8th
2006–07 Texas 18–14 6–10 T–7th
Texas (Big 12): 225–120 (.652) 110–66 (.625)
Total: 900–309 (.744)

      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

Volleyball

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Texas–Arlington Mavericks (Independent) (1973–1975)
1973 Texas–Arlington 27–9–3
1974 Texas–Arlington 44–6–3
1975 Texas–Arlington 34–14–2
Texas–Arlington: 105–29–8
Texas Longhorns (Independent) (1976–1977)
1976 Texas 28–19–5 AIAW National Qualifier
1977 Texas 34–19–2
Texas: 60–38–7

[15][16]

Total: 165–67–15

      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

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "Women's Basketball Coaches Career". NCAA. Retrieved 23 Sep 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Porter p. 86
  3. 1 2 Skaine, p. 119
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Porter p. 87
  5. 1 2 3 Skaine, p. 120
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Grundy p. 202–208
  7. ↑ Schultz, Tracy (13 March 2007). "For love of the game". SI.com. Retrieved 15 May 2010.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "Jody Conradt and Dick Vitale Selected as Naismith Award Winners". Naismith Awards. 14 March 2008. Retrieved 15 May 2010.
  9. ↑ "Hall of Famers". Basketball Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
  10. ↑ "WBHOF Inductees". WBHOF. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
  11. 1 2 "Past Russell Athletic/WBCA National Coaches of the Year". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Retrieved 30 Jun 2014.
  12. 1 2 3 Skaine, p. 121
  13. ↑ "Carol Eckman Award". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Retrieved 1 Jul 2014.
  14. ↑ "Conradt honored with Lifetime Achievement Award by NACWAA - TEXAS LONGHORNS Official Athletic Site". Retrieved 20 June 2010.
  15. ↑ http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/txar/sports/w-volley/auto_pdf/VBAll-TimeRecordBook.pdf
  16. ↑ http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/tex/sports/w-volley/auto_pdf/2012-13/prospectus/prospectus.pdf

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