Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | Boise State Broncos |
Conference | Mountain West Conference |
Biographical details | |
Born | Lapwai, Idaho | July 20, 1960
Gordy Presnell (born July 20, 1960) is the women's basketball coach for Boise State University since 2005. Before joining Boise State, Presnell coached boys basketball teams for Lapwai High School and Kendrick High School during the 1980s. After joining Seattle Pacific University as a graduate assistant in 1986, Presnell became their women's basketball coach in 1987. With Seattle Pacific, Presnell's team won three Pacific West Conference events and reached the final of the 2005 NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament. Upon leaving the team in 2005, Presnell had 396 wins and 127 losses.
Presnell became the head coach of the women's basketball team at Boise State University in 2005. From 2007 to 2020, Presnell's team won the WAC women's basketball tournament once and the Mountain West Conference women's basketball tournament five times. In between this time period, Presnell and his team reached the second round of the 2008 Women's National Invitation Tournament and the 2014 Women's Basketball Invitational. With the two schools, Presnell received nine conference Coach of the Year awards from the 1990s to 2019. For Division II schools, Presnell won the WBCA National Coach of the Year Award in 2003 and 2004. As a women's basketball coach, Presnell won his 700th game in 2021.