WNBA Coach of the Year

Template:Short description Template:WNBA Awards The Women's National Basketball Association's Coach of the Year is an annual Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) award given since the league's inaugural season. The winner is selected at the end of regular season by a panel of sportswriters from the United States, each of whom casts a vote for first, second and third place selections. Each first-place vote is worth five points; each second-place vote is worth three points; and each third-place vote is worth one point. The person with the highest point total, regardless of the number of first-place votes, wins the award.

Seven coaches have won both this award and the WNBA Finals in the same season: Van Chancellor (1997–1999), Bill Laimbeer (2003), John Whisenant (2005), Brian Agler (2010), Cheryl Reeve (2011), Sandy Brondello (2014), and Becky Hammon (2022).

Cheryl Reeve has won the award the most times, with 4 selections.

Winners

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Van Chancellor won the first three Coach of the Year awards.

	Denotes coach who is still active in the WNBA
	Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach
	Inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach
	Denotes coach whose team won championship that year
Player (X)	Denotes the number of times the coach has won
Team (X)	Denotes the number of times a coach of this team has won

Season	Coach	Nationality	Team	Record
1997	Van Chancellor	Template:USA	Houston Comets	18–10
1998	Van Chancellor (2)	Template:USA	Houston Comets (2)	27–3
1999	Van Chancellor (3)	Template:USA	Houston Comets (3)	26–6
2000	Michael Cooper	Template:USA	Los Angeles Sparks	28–4
2001	Dan Hughes	Template:USA	Cleveland Rockers	22–10
2002	Marianne Stanley	Template:USA	Washington Mystics	17–15
2003	Bill Laimbeer	Template:USA	Detroit Shock	25–9
2004	Suzie McConnell-SerioTemplate:Efn	Template:USA	Minnesota Lynx	18–16
2005	John Whisenant	Template:USA	Sacramento Monarchs	25–9
2006	Mike Thibault	Template:USA	Connecticut Sun	26–8
2007	Dan Hughes (2)	Template:USA	San Antonio Silver Stars	20–14
2008	Mike Thibault (2)	Template:USA	Connecticut Sun (2)	21–13
2009	Marynell Meadors	Template:USA	Atlanta Dream	18–16
2010	Brian Agler	Template:USA	Seattle Storm	28–6
2011	Cheryl Reeve	Template:USA	Minnesota Lynx (2)	27–7
2012	Carol Ross	Template:USA	Los Angeles Sparks (2)	24–10
2013	Mike Thibault (3)	Template:USA	Washington Mystics (2)	17–17
2014	Sandy Brondello	Template:AUS	Phoenix Mercury	29–5
2015	Bill Laimbeer (2)	Template:USA	New York Liberty	23–11
2016	Cheryl Reeve (2)	Template:USA	Minnesota Lynx (3)	28–6
2017	Curt Miller	Template:USA	Connecticut Sun (3)	21–13
2018	Nicki Collen	Template:USA	Atlanta Dream (2)	23–11<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2019	James Wade	Template:USA/Template:FRA	Chicago Sky	20–14<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2020	Cheryl Reeve (3)	Template:USA	Minnesota Lynx (4)	14–8<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2021	Curt Miller (2)	Template:USA	Connecticut Sun (4)	26–6<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2022	Becky Hammon	Template:USA/Template:RUS	Las Vegas Aces (2)Template:Efn	26–10<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
2023	Stephanie White	Template:USA	Connecticut Sun (5)	27–13<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
2024	Cheryl Reeve (4)	Template:USA	Minnesota Lynx (5)	30–10<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2025	Natalie Nakase	Template:USA	Golden State Valkyries	23–21<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

See also

• List of sports awards honoring women

References

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