Shauna Geronzin Green (born October 31, 1979) is an American
basketball
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coach.
Career
She coaches the
Illinois Fighting Illini women's basketball
The Illinois Fighting Illini women's basketball team is an NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Big Ten Conference. Home games are played at Assembly Hall (Champaign), State Farm Center, located on University of Illinois at Ur ...
team at the
University of Illinois
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United ...
. She was hired in March 2022. Green's .621 winning percentage after her first two seasons at Illinois is the best start for the program's head coach, after
Theresa Grentz's 1995–97 teams won .617 percent of their games.
On October 24, 2024, the university announced that Green's contract had been extended for two additional years, keeping the coach at Illinois at least through the 2029–30 season.
In her first season at Dayton, Green won the WBCA
Maggie Dixon Rookie Coach of the Year after "leading the team to a 22–10 record, 13–3 A-10 mark, and a berth in the NCAA Division I Tournament".
Canisius statistics
Head coaching record
Honors
* Canisius Athletic Hall of Fame (2012)
References
External links
Dayton Flyers bioIllinois Fighting Illini bio
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1979 births
Living people
American women's basketball coaches
American women's basketball players
Basketball coaches from Iowa
Basketball players from Iowa
Canisius Golden Griffins women's basketball players
Dayton Flyers women's basketball coaches
Illinois Fighting Illini women's basketball coaches
Loras Duhawks women's basketball coaches
Northwestern Wildcats women's basketball coaches
People from Clinton, Iowa
Providence Friars women's basketball coaches