Julie Ann Goodenough (

née A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth re ...

Roewe; born March 25, 1969) is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head women's basketball coach at Abilene Christian.

Early life and college playing career

Born Julie Ann Roewe in

Dallas Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...

, Goodenough graduated from

Haskell High School Haskell () is a general-purpose, statically-typed, purely functional programming language with type inference and lazy evaluation. Designed for teaching, research and industrial applications, Haskell has pioneered a number of programming lang ...

Haskell, Texas Haskell is a city in central Haskell County, Texas, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,322. It is the Haskell county seat. Geography Haskell is located at (33.160152, –99.734572). U.S. Route 277 passes th ...

in 1987 and first played college basketball at the junior college level at

Western Texas College Western Texas College (WTC) is a public community college in Snyder, Texas. It was established in 1969 and has two downtown Snyder locations in addition to the main campus. With an enrollment around 2,300, Western Texas College has an exte ...

before transferring to the

University of Texas at Arlington The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA or UT Arlington) is a public research university in Arlington, Texas. The university was founded in 1895 and was in the Texas A&M University System for several decades until joining the University of Te ...

in 1989. At Texas–Arlington, Goodenough played two years at

forward Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward. Forward may also refer to: People * Forward (surname) Sports * Forward (association football) * Forward (basketball), including: ** Point forward ** Power forward (basketball) ** Sm ...

. She averaged 8.9 points and 4.4 rebounds as a junior in 1989–90, then 14.3 points and 5.5 rebounds as a senior in 1990–91. Goodenough graduated in 1991 with a bachelor's degree in exercise and sport science.

Coaching career

Goodenough began her coaching career as a graduate assistant at Texas–Arlington in 1991–92. She transferred to

Texas Tech University Texas Tech University (Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas. Established on , and called Texas Technological College until 1969, it is the main institution of the five-institution Texas Tech University Sys ...

after the season to finish her master's degree in sports administration. In the 1992–93 season, the year

Texas Tech Lady Raiders basketball The Texas Tech Lady Raiders basketball team represents Texas Tech University and competes in the Big 12 Conference of NCAA Division I. History The 1975–76 season saw the debut of women's basketball at Texas Tech University. In 1993, the tea ...

won the NCAA championship, Goodenough was a volunteer assistant coach at nearby

Lubbock Christian University Lubbock Christian University (LCU) is a private Christian university associated with the Churches of Christ and located in Lubbock, Texas. Chartered originally as part of a grade school called Lubbock Christian School in 1954, the institution br ...

and taught physical education courses at Texas Tech. From 1993 to 2002, Goodenough was head coach at Hardin–Simmons, which transitioned from NAIA Division II to

NCAA Division III NCAA Division III (D-III) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. D-III consists of athletic programs at colleges and universities that choose not to offer athletic scholarships to their stu ...

in 1996. In nine seasons, Goodenough went 82–35. Under Goodenough, Hardin–Simmons made the NCAA Division III Tournament four consecutive times from 1999 to 2002, including a trip to the Elite Eight in 2000. From 2002 to 2005, she served as the head women's basketball coach at

Oklahoma State University Oklahoma (; Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, New ...

, going 23–61 in three seasons. Goodenough resigned on March 14, 2005. She then coached at

Charleston Southern University Charleston Southern University (CSU) is a private Baptist university in North Charleston, South Carolina. It is affiliated with the South Carolina Baptist Convention ( Southern Baptist Convention). History Charleston Southern University was ch ...

from 2006 to 2012 before being hired at Abilene Christian in 2012.

Personal life

Julie Goodenough married school administrator Rob Goodenough in 1994. They have two children.

Head coaching record

References

External links

Abilene Christian profileCharleston Southern profileOklahoma State profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Goodenough, Julie 1969 births Living people Abilene Christian Wildcats women's basketball coaches American women's basketball coaches Basketball coaches from Texas Charleston Southern Buccaneers women's basketball coaches Hardin–Simmons Cowboys and Cowgirls Junior college women's basketball players in the United States Lubbock Christian Lady Chaps basketball coaches Oklahoma State Cowgirls basketball coaches People from Haskell, Texas Sportspeople from Dallas Texas Tech University alumni Texas Tech University faculty Western Texas College alumni American women academics Basketball players from Dallas