Courtney Banghart
{{short description|American basketball coach (born 1978)}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Courtney Banghart
| image = Courtney Banghart (Jan 2024) 07.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Banghart coaching North Carolina in 2024
| current_title = Head coach
| current_team = North Carolina
| current_conference = ACC
| current_record = {{Winning percentage|125|64|record=y}}
| contract =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|5|11}}
| birth_place = Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
| alma_mater =
| player_years1 = 1996–2000
| player_team1 = Dartmouth
| player_positions = Guard
| coach_years1 = 2000–2003
| coach_team1 = Episcopal HS
| coach_years2 = 2003–2007
| coach_team2 = Dartmouth (assistant)
| coach_years3 = 2007–2019
| coach_team3 = Princeton
| coach_years4 = 2019–present
| coach_team4 = North Carolina
| admin_years1 = 2000–2003
| admin_team1 = Episcopal HS
| overall_record = {{Winning percentage|379|167|record=y}}
| tournament_record = 7–13 (NCAA)
1–2 (WNIT)
| championships = *7× Ivy League regular season (2010–2013, 2015, 2018, 2019)
- 2× Ivy League tournament (2018, 2019)
| awards = *Naismith National Coach of the Year (2015)
- 2× Ivy League Coach of the Year (2015, 2018)
- NJSWA Women's College Coach of the Year (2010)
| coaching_records =
}}
Courtney Rosholt Banghart (born May 11, 1978) is an American basketball coach who is currently the head women's basketball coach at North Carolina. Prior to North Carolina, she served as head coach at Princeton from 2007 to 2019.
Playing career
Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, Banghart graduated from Souhegan High School in Amherst, New Hampshire and Dartmouth College, also in New Hampshire. As a guard, Banghart played for Dartmouth from 1996 to 2000, including the Dartmouth teams that won the 1999 and 2000 Ivy League titles.{{Cite web|date=1999-11-29|title=basketball|url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/student/athletics/publicity/wbk.html|access-date=2021-06-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991129033941/http://www.dartmouth.edu/student/athletics/publicity/wbk.html|archive-date=1999-11-29}} She holds Dartmouth records for three-pointers in a game, season, and career.
Coaching career
From 2000 to 2003, Banghart was athletic director and head coach of the girls' basketball and girls' tennis teams at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia.{{cite web|url=http://goprincetontigers.com/coaches.aspx?rc=2472&path=wbball|title=Courtney Banghart|publisher=Princeton University Athletics|access-date=November 25, 2016}}
As an assistant coach at Dartmouth, Banghart helped lead Dartmouth to two Ivy League championships, and two NCAA appearances in 2005 and 2006. Dartmouth went 70–44 those seasons including 41–15 in Ivy League play.
In 2007, Banghart became the head coach for the Princeton Tigers. Her teams there won five outright Ivy League championships from 2010 through 2015, and, as a result, appeared in five NCAA Division I women's tournaments and a sixth "at-large" appearance in 2016. Her best team was the 2014–15 unit, which went 30–0 in the regular season and defeated Green Bay in the 2015 NCAA tournament—the first NCAA tournament win in program history.[http://www.goprincetontigers.com/fls/10600/statistics/wbb/2014-15/teamcume.htm Princeton 2014-15 season statistics] That same season saw Banghart notch her 164th win as Princeton head coach, vaulting her past Joan Kowalik to become the winningest coach in Princeton women's basketball history.
On February 3, 2017, against Dartmouth, her alma mater, Banghart notched her 200th win as a head coach.{{cite web |last=Murphy |first=Chris |date=February 6, 2017 |title=Women's Basketball Nets Two Huge Wins |url=https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2017/02/womens-basketball-nets-two-huge-wins |access-date=March 6, 2024 |website=dailyprincetonian.com}} She tallied her 250th career win on March 2, 2019, against Harvard.{{cite web |url=https://goprincetontigers.com/news/2019/3/2/womens-basketball-tigers-honor-seniors-with-thrilling-61-58-win-banghart-earns-250th-career-victory.aspx |title=Tigers Honor Seniors With Thrilling 61-58 Win; Banghart Earns 250th Career Victory |date=March 2, 2019 |publisher=Princeton Athletics |access-date=March 5, 2019}}
In April 2017, Banghart was selected to be an assistant coach for the 2017 USA Basketball Women's U23 national team, which is composed of women, age 23 or younger, who are currently freshmen, sophomores or juniors in college.{{cite web |url=https://www.usab.com/news-events/news/2017/04/wu23-coaches.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170807152149/https://www.usab.com/news-events/news/2017/04/wu23-coaches.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 7, 2017 |title=Jeff Walz, Courtney Banghart And Michelle Clark-Heard To Lead 2017 USA Basketball Women's U23 National Team |date=April 19, 2017 |website=usab.con |access-date= June 30, 2017}} The team competed in and won the inaugural U24 Four Nations Tournament in Tokyo, Japan.{{cite web |url=https://www.usab.com/news-events/news/2017/08/wu23-game-03-jpn.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816112209/https://www.usab.com/news-events/news/2017/08/wu23-game-03-jpn.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 16, 2017 |title=Women Capture U24 Four Nations Tournament Title |date=August 15, 2017 |website=usab.com |access-date=August 15, 2017}}
On April 30, 2019, Banghart was announced as the new head coach at North Carolina.{{Cite web |last=Wilcox |first=Ryan |date=2019-04-30 |title=UNC women's basketball names Courtney Banghart as its new head coach |url=https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2019/04/wbb-courtney-banghart-named-coach |access-date=2019-04-30 |publisher=Daily Tar Heel}} Her first two seasons at Carolina had their share of ups and downs; however, Banghart's early Carolina tenure picked up steam on the recruiting trail, with all four signees in Carolina's 2021 recruiting class being named to the women's Jordan Brand Classic event.{{cite web|url=https://goheels.com/news/2021/5/24/womens-basketball-four-tar-heels-named-to-jordan-brand-classic-girls-national-team.aspx|title=Four Tar Heels Named to Jordan Brand Classic Girls National Team|date=May 24, 2021|website=GoHeels.com}}
Banghart recorded her 300th win as a head coach on February 3, 2022, against Wake Forest. Her Tar Heels team won its twentieth game on February 17 in an upset over the No. 3 ranked Louisville Cardinals, becoming the first Tar Heel women's team to post twenty overall wins and ten conference wins in a season since the 2014–15 campaign. The 2021–22 Tar Heels' 13 wins in ACC conference play are the most since the 2012–13 season, when Sylvia Hatchell's team won 14 ACC games.
=Recognition=
In 2015, the United States Basketball Writers Association named Banghart as Coach of the Year.{{cite web |date=April 6, 2015 |title=Banghart Named Coach of the Year |url=http://www.vnews.com/sports/16396959-95/banghart-named-coach-of-the-year |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052349/http://www.vnews.com/sports/16396959-95/banghart-named-coach-of-the-year |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |access-date=April 6, 2015 |publisher=Valley News}} Fortune named her one of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders for "taking charge of a mediocre team that had never made the NCAA tournament" while ensuring players met Princeton's academic standards.{{cite web |last=Maine |first=D'Arcy |date=March 26, 2015 |title=Princeton's Courtney Banghart Joins Taylor Swift And Pope Francis On List |url=https://www.espn.com/espnw/athletes-life/the-buzz/story/_/id/12564294 |access-date=March 6, 2024 |publisher=ESPN}}{{cite web |last=Casey |first=Tim |date=January 10, 2015 |title=At Princeton, a Student of Sports Leadership Successfully Applies Her Research |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/10/sports/ncaabasketball/courtney-banghart-has-led-tigers-to-16-0-record.html |access-date=November 25, 2016 |work=The New York Times}}
Head coaching record
{{CBB Yearly Record Start
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
|name=Princeton Tigers
|startyear=2007
|conference=Ivy League
|endyear=2019
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 2007–08
| name = Princeton
| overall = 7–23
| conference = 4–10
| confstanding = 6th
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 2008–09
| name = Princeton
| overall = 14–14
| conference = 9–5
| confstanding = 3rd
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| season = 2009–10
| name = Princeton
| overall = 26–3
| conference = 14–0
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| season = 2010–11
| name = Princeton
| overall = 24–5
| conference = 13–1
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| season = 2011–12
| name = Princeton
| overall = 24–5
| conference = 14–0
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| season = 2012–13
| name = Princeton
| overall = 22–7
| conference = 13–1
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 2013–14
| name = Princeton
| overall = 21–9
| conference = 11–3
| confstanding = T–2nd
| postseason = WNIT Second Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| season = 2014–15
| name = Princeton
| overall = 31–1
| conference = 14–0
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA Second Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 2015–16
| name = Princeton
| overall = 23–6
| conference = 12–2
| confstanding = 2nd
| postseason = NCAA First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| season = 2016–17
| name = Princeton
| overall = 16–14
| conference = 9–5
| confstanding = 2nd
| postseason = WNIT First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2017–18
| name = Princeton
| overall = 24–6
| conference = 12–2
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2018–19
| name = Princeton
| overall = 22–10
| conference = 12–2
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA First Round
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Princeton
|overall={{Winning percentage|254|103|record=y}}
|confrecord={{Winning percentage|137|31|record=y}}
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
|name=North Carolina Tar Heels
|startyear=2019
|conference=Atlantic Coast Conference
|endyear=
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2019–20
| name = North Carolina
| overall = 16–14
| conference = 7–11
| confstanding = T–11th
| postseason = Postseason cancelled
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2020–21
| name = North Carolina
| overall = 13–11
| conference = 8–9
| confstanding = 8th
| postseason = NCAA First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2021–22
| name = North Carolina
| overall = 25–7
| conference = 13–5
| confstanding = T–3rd
| postseason = NCAA Sweet Sixteen
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2022–23
| name = North Carolina
| overall = 22–11
| conference = 11–7
| confstanding = T–6th
| postseason = NCAA Second Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2023–24
| name = North Carolina
| overall = 20–13
| conference = 11–7
| confstanding = T–7th
| postseason = NCAA Second Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2024–25
| name = North Carolina
| overall = 29–8
| conference = 13–5
| confstanding = T–4th
| postseason = NCAA Sweet Sixteen
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = North Carolina
|overall={{Winning percentage|125|64|record=y}}
|confrecord={{Winning percentage|63|44|record=y}}
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record End
|overall={{Winning percentage|379|167|record=y}}
|legend=yes
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References
External links
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- "[https://goheels.com/news/2019/4/30/banghart-to-lead-carolinas-womens-basketball-program.aspx Banghart to lead UNC women's basketball program]"
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