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| Awarded for | the top women's basketball coach in the Big West Conference |
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| History | |
| First award | 1983–84 |
| First winner | Sheila Strike-Bolla & Jim Bolla, UNLV |
| Most wins | 8, UC Santa Barbara |
| Most recent | Laura Beeman, Hawaii |
The Big West Conference Women's Basketball Coach of the Year is an annual college basketball award given to head coaches in the Big West Conference.
The award was first given at the end of the 1983–84 season, when the conference was known as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA), to husband and wife co-coaches Sheila Strike and Jim Bolla of UNLV. The program with the most awards is UC Santa Barbara with 8, with Mark French's conference-leading 7 awards and Lindsay Gottlieb garnering the award in 2009. Jennifer Gross is the only head coach to win five consecutive coach of the year honors, her most recent being after the 2020–21 season.[1]
- ^ #BigWestHoops [@BigWestHoops] (March 8, 2021). "One of the #BWWBB Co-Coaches of the year is @UCDavisWBB Jennifer Gross! ..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.