Molly Goodenbour

Molly Colleen Goodenbour (born February 8, 1972) is an American college basketball coach and former professional basketball player who is the current women's basketball head coach at the University of San Francisco. Goodenbour previously was head coach at Santa Rosa Junior College, UC Irvine, and Cal State Dominguez Hills.

College career Goodenbour graduated from Waterloo West High School in Waterloo, Iowa and went on to play basketball at Stanford from 1989 to 1993. Goodenbour was a freshman reserve guard on Stanford's 1990 National Championship team. As a junior in 1992, she was named Most Outstanding Player as Stanford won their 2nd national championship in 1992. In the tournament, she set the record for most three-pointers made with 18. Goodenbour played in 40 games with 11 starts. She averaged 20.2 minutes per game, 7.3 points, 1.4 assists and 2.0 rebounds. She was sixth in the ABL in three-point field goal percentage with .411. During the 1998 ABL Draft, the San Jose Lasers drafted Goodenbour, as she joined the league as an undrafted free agent. She never signed with the Lasers and retired from playing.

During the 2000 expansion draft on December 15, 1999, Goodenbour was selected by the Portland Fire. However, Goodenbour would never play in the WNBA.

Coaching career Goodenbour coached women's basketball for one year in 1994–95 for the University of San Francisco before embarking on her professional career. She returned to coaching in 2002 as associate head coach at Santa Rosa Junior College. She became head coach in 2003, guiding the team to two conference titles. She was named Bay Valley Conference Coach of the Year in 2005. On February 28, 2012, UC Irvine suspended Goodenbour for one game without pay for making what the university called an "insensitive" remark towards a student who had a disability. UC Irvine later placed Goodenbour on administrative leave from March 23 through the end of her contract on August 4; the university decided not to renew Goodenbour's contract. Goodenbour had a 44–76 overall record at UC Irvine in four seasons.

On June 8, 2016, Cal State East Bay hired Goodenbour as head women's basketball coach, after Suzy Barcomb moved up to Division I Seattle.

Less than four months later on September 28, 2016, Goodenbour was hired as the University of San Francisco Don's ninth head women's basketball coach after her former Stanford Cardinal teammate and previous Dons coach Jennifer Azzi resigned from the post as head coach two weeks earlier.

In 2022, a lawsuit was filed against Goodenbour with USF named as a secondary defendant. by former players Marta and Marija Galic. The Galic sisters, both overseas student athletes from Croatia, allege that Goodenbour engaged in “archaic and abusive conduct”, highlighting an instance where Goodenbour refused to allow Marta Galic to go to the bathroom and thereby forced her to urinate on herself in front of her teammates. Marija Galic additionally stated in the filing that Goodenbour subjectged her to verbal and psychological abuse, causing her to suffer from nervous breakdowns, and that Goodenbour did not follow the proper concussion protocols. Goodenbour and USF responded by denying an intent to cause the harm the sisters described. Both further argued that the bathroom incident described by the sisters never happened. Mike Vartain, a lawyer for USF, said that Goodenbour would never want a player to urinate in their pants, and that no such prohibition on going to the bathroom without asking would exist.

A San Francisco County Superior Court jury ruled in favor of Marija Galic, awarding her $750,000 because of “intentional infliction of emotional distress” by coach Goodenbour. The jury ruled against Marta Galic on her allegations.

Personal Goodenbour is married to Pat Fuscaldo, head men's basketball coach at Sonoma State University. conference = 13–1 confstanding = T–1st (Bay) postseason = CCCAA Elite Eight

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