Maggie Dixon Award

The Maggie Dixon Division I Rookie Coach of the Year Award is an award given annually since 2007 to the head coach in women's college basketball in the NCAA Division I competition who achieves great success in their first year as a Division I head coach. Given by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association, the award is named for former women's head coach Maggie Dixon, who coached at Army for the 2005–06 season before suddenly dying due to valve complications from an enlarged heart.^[1] Dixon had been named head coach just 11 days before the start of the season but led the Black Knights to a 20–11 record and won the Patriot League tournament championship.^[2] It was Army's first basketball team, men or women, to play in the NCAA Tournament. Although Army would lose in the first round to Tennessee, Dixon was named the Patriot League Coach of the Year and received much praise from the college basketball community for her coaching job in just her first season. On April 6, 2006, Dixon died at the age of 28 of what her brother Jamie Dixon, then head men's basketball coach at Pittsburgh, described as an "arrhythmic episode to her heart."^[2]

Maggie Dixon Award
Awarded for	the nation's top NCAA Division I rookie head coach
Country	United States
Presented by	Women's Basketball Coaches Association
First award	2007
Currently held by	Kim Caldwell, Marshall
Website	Official site

Definition of "rookie"

The WBCA defines a "rookie" coach as being in the coach's first season as a Division I head coach. However, coaches at programs that have transitioned to Division I are not eligible for the award if they served as head coach at that school before the start of the transition. Coaches who move to Division I from any coaching position with a professional team are not eligible, and interim head coaches are also ineligible.^[3]

Winners

Awarded the Naismith College Coach of the Year the same season

Year	Coach	School	Record	Reference
2006–07	Krista Kilburn-Stevesky	Hofstra	26–8	[4]
2007–08	Jeff Walz	Louisville	26–10	[5]
2008–09	Kelly Packard	Ball State	26–9	[6]
2009–10	Teresa Weatherspoon	Louisiana Tech	23–9	[7]
2010–11	Stephanie Glance	Illinois State	24–10	[8]
2011–12	Jennifer Hoover	High Point	20–13	[9]
2012–13	Holly Warlick	Tennessee	27–8	[10]
2013–14	Billi Godsey	Iona	26–6	[11]
2014–15	Lisa Fortier	Gonzaga	26-8	[12]
2015–16	Joni Taylor	Georgia	21–10	[13]
2016–17	Shauna Green	Dayton	22–9	[14]
2017–18	Bart Brooks	Belmont	31–4	[15]
2018–19	Carlos Funchess	Southern	20–13	[16]
2019–20	Amaka Agugua-Hamilton	Missouri State	26–4	[17]
2020–21	Kyra Elzy	Kentucky	18–9	[18]
2021–22	Kelly Rae Finley	Florida	21–11	[19]
2022–23	Shawn Poppie	Chattanooga	20–13	[20]
2023–24	Kim Caldwell	Marshall	26–7	[21]

Winners by school

School	Winners	Years
Ball State	1	2009
Belmont	1	2018
Chattanooga	1	2023
Dayton	1	2017
Florida	1	2022
Georgia	1	2016
Gonzaga	1	2015
High Point	1	2012
Hofstra	1	2007
Illinois State	1	2011
Iona	1	2014
Kentucky	1	2021
Louisiana Tech	1	2010
Louisville	1	2008
Marshall	1	2024
Missouri State	1	2020
Southern	1	2019
Tennessee	1	2013

Gallery

Winners of the Maggie Dixon Award

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  2008—Jeff Walz, Head Coach Louisville Cardinals
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  2010—Teresa Weatherspoon, Louisiana Tech women's basketball head coach
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  2011—Stephanie Glance, head women's basketball coach at Columbia University
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  2012—Jennifer Hoover, Head Coach High Point University
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  2013—Holly Warlick, Head Coach University of Tennessee

References

1. "Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
2. "The Maggie Dixon Story: An Inspiring Legacy". DePaul University. 20 November 2009. Archived from the original on 29 April 2010. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
3. "Coaching Awards: Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
4. "Krista Kilburn-Steveskey bio". Hofstra University. 2010. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
5. "Jeff Walz Named WBCA Maggie Dixon Rookie Coach of the Year". University of Louisville. 1 April 2008. Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
6. "Packard Named Maggie Dixon Rookie Coach Of The Year". Ball State University. 30 March 2009. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
7. "LA Tech's Teresa Weatherspoon Takes Home Maggie Dixon Division I Rookie Coach of the Year Accolade". SportsPageMagazine.com. 29 March 2010. Retrieved 5 May 2010.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
8. Reinhardt, Randy (29 March 2011). "ISU's Glance named top 1st-year basketball coach". Pantagraph.com. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
9. "Hoover gets coaching award". Winston-Salem Journal. April 4, 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
10. Fleser, Dan (April 8, 2013). "Holly Warlick receives Maggie Dixon award for rookie coaches". Go Vols XTRA. Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
11. Heyman, Brian (April 7, 2014). "Women's basketball: Iona's Billi Godsey named rookie coach of year". The Journal News. Gannett Company. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
12. "Fortier Named National Rookie Coach of the Year". Gonzaga Bulldogs. 2015-04-06. Archived from the original on April 13, 2015. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
13. "Taylor Named Spalding Maggie Dixon Coach Of The Year" (Press release). Georgia Bulldogs. Archived from the original on March 30, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
14. "Shauna Green Named 2017 Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year" (Press release). Women's Basketball Coaches Association. March 31, 2017. Retrieved April 5, 2017.
15. "Belmont's Bart Brooks Named 2018 Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year" (Press release). Women's Basketball Coaches Association. March 26, 2018. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
16. "Carlos Funchess Named 2019 Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year" (Press release). Women's Basketball Coaches Association. April 3, 2019. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
17. "Amaka Agugua-Hamilton Named 2020 Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year" (Press release). Women's Basketball Coaches Association. March 31, 2020. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
18. "Kyra Elzy Earns Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA D-I Rookie Coach of the Year Award" (Press release). Kentucky Athletics. March 31, 2021. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
19. "Florida's Finley named 2022 Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year" (Press release). Women's Basketball Coaches Association. March 30, 2022. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
20. "Chattanooga's Poppie Named 2023 Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year" (Press release). Women's Basketball Coaches Association. March 29, 2023. Retrieved March 30, 2023.
21. "Marshall's Kim Caldwell named 2024 Spalding® Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. April 3, 2024. Retrieved April 3, 2024.

External links

• Maggie Dixon Award webpage. Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) official website