WNBA Coach of the Year Award

Women's National Basketball Association awards and honors
Championship
Individual awards

Honors

Van Chancellor won the first three Coach of the Year awards.

The Women's National Basketball Association's Coach of the Year is an annual Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) award given since the league's inaugural season. The winner is selected at the end of regular season by a panel of sportswriters from the United States, each of whom casts a vote for first, second and third place selections. Each first-place vote is worth five points; each second-place vote is worth three points; and each third-place vote is worth one point. The person with the highest point total, regardless of the number of first-place votes, wins the award.

Six coaches have won the award and later proceeded to win the WNBA Finals: Van Chancellor (1997–1999), Bill Laimbeer (2003), John Whisenant (2005), Brian Agler (2010), Cheryl Reeve (2011), and Sandy Brondello (2014).

Winners

Year Coach Team Record
1997 Van Chancellor Houston Comets 18–10
1998 Van Chancellor (2) Houston Comets 27–3
1999 Van Chancellor (3) Houston Comets 26–6
2000 Michael Cooper Los Angeles Sparks 28–4
2001 Dan Hughes Cleveland Rockers 22–10
2002 Marianne Stanley Washington Mystics 17–15
2003 Bill Laimbeer Detroit Shock 25–9
2004 Suzie McConnell-Serio Minnesota Lynx 18–16
2005 John Whisenant Sacramento Monarchs 25–9
2006 Mike Thibault Connecticut Sun 26–8
2007 Dan Hughes (2) San Antonio Silver Stars 20–14
2008 Mike Thibault (2) Connecticut Sun 21–13
2009 Marynell Meadors Atlanta Dream 18–16
2010 Brian Agler Seattle Storm 28–6
2011 Cheryl Reeve Minnesota Lynx 27–7
2012 Carol Ross Los Angeles Sparks 24–10
2013 Mike Thibault (3) Washington Mystics 17–17
2014 Sandy Brondello Phoenix Mercury 29–5
2015 Bill Laimbeer (2) New York Liberty 23–11

References

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