Gail Goestenkors Is Going To Be An Associate Head Coach For Heather Oesterle At Central Michigan

When Joanne P. McCallie stepped away from her position as the Head Coach of the Duke Women’s Basketball Program on July 9, 2020 Gail Goestenkors was one of candidates to replace her in article I read on ESPN.com by Mechelle Voepel but they didn’t hire her to return to Duke for another stint as the head coach of the Duke Women’s Basketball Program.

Instead, Kevin White who is the Vice President as well as the Director Of Athletics for Duke as well as an adjunct of business administration at Duke hired Kara Lawson as the next head coach of the Duke Women’s Basketball Program.

Who is she?

Kara Lawson is someone who has many titles to her name!

What are they?

WNBA Player, Broadcaster, Assistant Coach!

She played 13 seasons in the WNBA where she she averaged 9.8 points (41.4% FG, 39.0% 3-PT), 2.6 rebounds, and 2.5 assists over 377 career games with the Sacramento Monarchs, Connecticut Sun, and Washington Mystics from 2003 to 2015. In addition to her WNBA career, which included a championship with the Monarchs in 2005 and an All-Star appearance in 2007, Lawson was a member of the Team USA roster that captured the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. “according to https://www.nba.com/celtics/roster/coaches/kara-lawson

She was an analyst for Washington as well as working for ESPN as a game and studio analyst for both Men’s and Women’s College Basketball as well as the NBA.

However,

Gail Goestenkors is returning to the collegiate game!

How?

As an Associate Head Coach at Central Michigan. She will be an Associate Head Coach to Heather Oesterle who is the head coach at Central Michigan! according to an article by Mechelle Voepel on espn.com

During her time at Duke Gail Goestenkors took the Duke Women’s Basketball Program to the Women's Final Four four times and won at least 30 games in each of her last seven seasons there, 2000-07. She received national coach of the year honors in 2003 and 2007 and was ACC coach of the year seven times.  “according to an article by Mechelle Voepel on espn.com

But that isn’t the only college where she has coached as she also was the head coach of Texas from 2007 to 2012. according to an article by Mechelle Voepel on espn.com