WNBA Coach of the Year Award

Women's National Basketball Association awards and honors

WNBA Finals

Individual awards

Honors

Van Chancellor won the first three Coach of the Year awards.

The Women's National Basketball Association's Coach of the Year is an annual Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) award given since the league's inaugural season. The winner is selected at the end of regular season by a panel of sportswriters from the United States, each of whom casts a vote for first, second and third place selections. Each first-place vote is worth five points; each second-place vote is worth three points; and each third-place vote is worth one point. The person with the highest point total, regardless of the number of first-place votes, wins the award.

Six coaches have won the award and later proceeded to win the WNBA Finals: Van Chancellor (1997–1999), Bill Laimbeer (2003), John Whisenant (2005), Brian Agler (2010), Cheryl Reeve (2011), and Sandy Brondello (2014).

Winners

Year	Coach	Team	Record
1997	Van Chancellor	Houston Comets	18–10
1998	Van Chancellor (2)	Houston Comets	27–3
1999	Van Chancellor (3)	Houston Comets	26–6
2000	Michael Cooper	Los Angeles Sparks	28–4
2001	Dan Hughes	Cleveland Rockers	22–10
2002	Marianne Stanley	Washington Mystics	17–15
2003	Bill Laimbeer	Detroit Shock	25–9
2004	Suzie McConnell-Serio	Minnesota Lynx	18–16
2005	John Whisenant	Sacramento Monarchs	25–9
2006	Mike Thibault	Connecticut Sun	26–8
2007	Dan Hughes (2)	San Antonio Silver Stars	20–14
2008	Mike Thibault (2)	Connecticut Sun	21–13
2009	Marynell Meadors	Atlanta Dream	18–16
2010	Brian Agler	Seattle Storm	28–6
2011	Cheryl Reeve	Minnesota Lynx	27–7
2012	Carol Ross	Los Angeles Sparks	24–10
2013	Mike Thibault (3)	Washington Mystics	17–17
2014	Sandy Brondello	Phoenix Mercury	29–5
2015	Bill Laimbeer (2)	New York Liberty	23–11
2016	Cheryl Reeve (2)	Minnesota Lynx	28-6

References

"WNBA Coach of the Year". Retrieved January 19, 2009.
"Thibault to be named 2008 WNBA Coach of the Year". Retrieved September 20, 2008.

WNBA Coach of the Year Award

1997: Chancellor 1998: Chancellor 1999: Chancellor 2000: Cooper 2001: Hughes 2002: Stanley 2003: Laimbeer 2004: McConnell-Serio 2005: Whisenant 2006: Thibault 2007: Hughes 2008: Thibault 2009: Meadors 2010: Agler 2011: Reeve 2012: Ross 2013: Thibault 2014: Brondello 2015: Laimbeer 2016: Reeve

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