Press Releases

ATLANTA (March 12, 2024) – The Women’s Basketball Coaches Association announced today the two-year college award winners for the 2023-24 season. Coach of the Year Wabash Valley head coach Luke Scheidecker is the 2024 WBCA Two-Year College Coach of the Year. Scheidecker will receive the Pat Summitt Trophy, named for the late legendary University of Tennessee […]

ATLANTA (March 5, 2024) — DeJuena Chizer, executive senior associate athletics director for student-athlete development and senior women’s administrator at the University of Houston, is the 2024 WBCA Administrator of the Year, announced today by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association. The WBCA Administrator of the Year award is presented annually to an administrator, athletic director, associate or […]

ATLANTA (Feb. 29, 2024) — UCLA head coach Cori Close is the recipient of the 2024 WBCA Carol Eckman Integrity in Coaching Award, the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association announced today. The Carol Eckman Integrity in Coaching Award is named in honor of the late Carol Eckman, the former West Chester State College coach, who is considered […]

ATLANTA (Feb. 27, 2024) — Rich Ensor, who was an unwavering ally of women’s basketball throughout his 35 years of service as commissioner of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, is the recipient of the 2024 Betty F. Jaynes Lifetime Achievement Award, the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association announced today. The award is named in honor of the […]

ATLANTA (Feb. 21, 2024) — The Women’s Basketball Coaches Association announced today that effective immediately its lifetime achievement award will be named the Betty F. Jaynes Lifetime Achievement Award in honor of the WBCA’s first and longest-serving executive director. The award is presented each year to an individual who has maintained a professional lifelong commitment of […]