Christianne Geiger Gobrecht (born February 9, 1955) is an American

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coach who is currently the head coach of the

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women's basketball team. A coach since 1977, she has been a head coach at the high school, junior college, and NCAA levels, and is known for only hiring female assistant coaches in order to protect opportunities for women.

Coaching career

Gobrecht began her coaching career at Santa Fe Springs High School for one season before named the head coach at Pasadena City College, where she won a conference championship in her lone season there. She was also the head coach at

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for six seasons prior to accepting the head coaching position at

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, where she won two

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titles and was named Pac-10 coach of the year twice. She was also the head coach at

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for one season prior to joining her alma mater USC in 1997. She led the Trojans to two WNIT appearances before she was fired at the end of the 2003–04 season. Gobrecht took the 2004–05 season off to spend time with family, accepting the head coaching position at

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in 2005. Gobrecht was named the head coach at

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on April 14, 2015. She signed a contract extension after the 2017–18 season that extended her contract through the 2022–23 season. In 2022, the

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named Gobrecht the Coach of the Year in women's basketball after Air Force finished the regular season 17–12 (11–7 MW), the program's first winning season since it moved from Division II to Division I in 1996. After advancing to the second round of the

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, Air Force finished the 2021–22 season 19–12 overall.

Head coaching record

Personal life

Gobrecht was married to Bob Gobrecht, who died in 2018 from an undisclosed illness. The couple had two children; Eric and Mady. Eric attended the Air Force Academy and is a Major stationed at

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in California, while Mady played for her mother at Yale and is currently a nurse in Colorado Springs.

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