UPDATE: Apparently it’s official. David Carrillo Pe’aloza of the Daily Pilot wrote of UC Irvine athletic director Mike Izzi being on vacation, “Wherever Izzi was Monday, he knows the program is further away from becoming a contender in anything than he was from his office.” Ouch.
Travis Souders of the Chico Enterprise Record is reporting that UC Irvine will hire Chico State’s Molly Goodenbour on Monday as its head women’s basketball coach.
Last season, Goodenbour led the Wildcats to their highest win total ever — 28-6 — en route to a (Division II) California Collegiate Athletic Association championship. In her two years with the program, she amassed a 52-11 mark.
Goodenbour, who at Stanford played in three Final Fours and helped lead the Cardinal to two national championships (1990 and 1992 — the latter of which saw her earn Final Four Most Outstanding Player distinction) before embarking on a pro career culminating with the WNBA’s Sacramento Monarchs in 1999, replaces Molly Tuter.
Tuter resigned May 28 following a 7-24 campaign.