University of Minnesota Athletics
Women's Basketball
Gail Striegler
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
Gail Striegler, a 27-year coaching veteran, is entering her third season as an assistant coach on Marlene Stollings' staff. Striegler spent the previous seven years establishing herself as the winningest head coach in Long Island University Brooklyn women's basketball history.
During Striegler's first year on the Minnesota staff, the Gophers set multiple program scoring records in 2015-16. They averaged 83.9 points per game to rank fourth in the nation, scoring 2,676 total over the season. Rachel Banham was received Big Ten Player of the Year, All-America First Team and Wooden Award Top-Five accolades before being picked fourth overall in the WNBA Draft. In 2016-17, the Gophers had an All-Big Ten Second Team and CoSIDA Academic All-America selection in Carlie Wagner. Kenisha Bell, another guard, earned All-Big Ten Honorable Mention.
Striegler has a deep tradition of winning at the highest level of collegiate women's basketball, guiding her teams to three conference championships and eight NCAA Tournament appearances, including a Sweet 16 run as an assistant at Stephen F. Austin State University in 1996. During her head coaching tenure at the University of Central Florida, she was twice named Atlantic Sun Conference Coach of the Year. Striegler has accumulated over 200 wins and coached eleven nationally ranked recruiting classes.
Striegler has proven to be adept at both finding and developing talent, as she has assembled three top-25 recruiting classes and aided in the development of two Naismith finalists, 30 all-conference team selections, a conference rookie of the year, an all-defensive team pick and two all-freshman team honorees as both a head coach and assistant coach.
In her time as the head coach at LIU Brooklyn, Striegler secured a program-best 96 victories, which included two seasons with 20 or more wins. The team's 22 wins in 2009-10 were the second-most in program history, while her 62 wins from 2009-12 were the most all-time over a three-year period for the Blackbirds.
During her tenure in Orlando from 1999-2007, Striegler led the Knights to three-straight conference championships from 2003-05, coached 22 all-conference selections and 33 academic all-conference honorees. Her teams ranked in the top-20 nationally three times in overall scoring, twice in blocked shots and once in three-point field goal percentage, while she also signed six Street & Smith Honorable Mention All-Americans, all while breaking the UCF all-time attendance record in 2006.
Along with her head coaching stops at LIU Brooklyn and UCF, Striegler has also served as an assistant coach at Georgia State and Northwestern State, as well as Stephen F. Austin State. She began her coaching career as a graduate assistant at Arkansas.
Striegler earned her master's degree in kinesiology from Arkansas and her bachelor's degree in kinesiology from Central Arkansas. A native of Fayetteville, Ark., she is a member of the University of Central Arkansas Hall of Fame.
During Striegler's first year on the Minnesota staff, the Gophers set multiple program scoring records in 2015-16. They averaged 83.9 points per game to rank fourth in the nation, scoring 2,676 total over the season. Rachel Banham was received Big Ten Player of the Year, All-America First Team and Wooden Award Top-Five accolades before being picked fourth overall in the WNBA Draft. In 2016-17, the Gophers had an All-Big Ten Second Team and CoSIDA Academic All-America selection in Carlie Wagner. Kenisha Bell, another guard, earned All-Big Ten Honorable Mention.
Striegler has a deep tradition of winning at the highest level of collegiate women's basketball, guiding her teams to three conference championships and eight NCAA Tournament appearances, including a Sweet 16 run as an assistant at Stephen F. Austin State University in 1996. During her head coaching tenure at the University of Central Florida, she was twice named Atlantic Sun Conference Coach of the Year. Striegler has accumulated over 200 wins and coached eleven nationally ranked recruiting classes.
Striegler has proven to be adept at both finding and developing talent, as she has assembled three top-25 recruiting classes and aided in the development of two Naismith finalists, 30 all-conference team selections, a conference rookie of the year, an all-defensive team pick and two all-freshman team honorees as both a head coach and assistant coach.
In her time as the head coach at LIU Brooklyn, Striegler secured a program-best 96 victories, which included two seasons with 20 or more wins. The team's 22 wins in 2009-10 were the second-most in program history, while her 62 wins from 2009-12 were the most all-time over a three-year period for the Blackbirds.
During her tenure in Orlando from 1999-2007, Striegler led the Knights to three-straight conference championships from 2003-05, coached 22 all-conference selections and 33 academic all-conference honorees. Her teams ranked in the top-20 nationally three times in overall scoring, twice in blocked shots and once in three-point field goal percentage, while she also signed six Street & Smith Honorable Mention All-Americans, all while breaking the UCF all-time attendance record in 2006.
Along with her head coaching stops at LIU Brooklyn and UCF, Striegler has also served as an assistant coach at Georgia State and Northwestern State, as well as Stephen F. Austin State. She began her coaching career as a graduate assistant at Arkansas.
Striegler earned her master's degree in kinesiology from Arkansas and her bachelor's degree in kinesiology from Central Arkansas. A native of Fayetteville, Ark., she is a member of the University of Central Arkansas Hall of Fame.
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