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Maggie Dixon Award

American women's collegiate basketball coach award

Summary

American women's collegiate basketball coach award

Field	Value
name	Maggie Dixon Award
image	Maggie Dixon Award.JPG
awarded_for	the nation's top NCAA Division I rookie head coach
presenter	Women's Basketball Coaches Association
country	United States
year	2007
holder	Jan Jensen, Iowa
website	Official site

The Maggie Dixon Division I Rookie Coach of the Year Award is an award given annually since 2007 to the head coach in women's college basketball in the NCAA Division I competition who achieves great success in their first year as a Division I head coach. Given by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association, the award is named for former women's head coach Maggie Dixon, who coached at Army for the 2005–06 season before suddenly dying due to valve complications from an enlarged heart. Dixon had been named head coach just 11 days before the start of the season but led the Black Knights to a 20–11 record and won the Patriot League tournament championship. It was Army's first basketball team, men or women, to play in the NCAA Tournament. Although Army would lose in the first round to Tennessee, Dixon was named the Patriot League Coach of the Year and received much praise from the college basketball community for her coaching job in just her first season. On April 6, 2006, Dixon died at the age of 28 of what her brother Jamie Dixon, then head men's basketball coach at Pittsburgh, described as an "arrhythmic episode to her heart."

Definition of "rookie"

The WBCA defines a "rookie" coach as being in the coach's first season as a Division I head coach. However, coaches at programs that have transitioned to Division I are not eligible for the award if they served as head coach at that school before the start of the transition. Coaches who move to Division I from any coaching position with a professional team are not eligible, and interim head coaches are also ineligible.

Winners

	Awarded the Naismith College Coach of the Year the same season

Year	School	Reference
2006–07	Hofstra
2007–08	Louisville
2008–09	Ball State
2009–10	Louisiana Tech
2010–11	Illinois State
2011–12	High Point
2012–13	Tennessee	last=Fleser	first=Dan	date=April 8, 2013	title=Holly Warlick receives Maggie Dixon award for rookie coaches	url=https://www.govolsxtra.com/news/2013/apr/08/holly-warlick-receives-maggie-dixon-award-for/?partner=RSS	work=Go Vols XTRA	publisher=Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group	accessdate=11 April 2013}}
2013–14	Iona
2014–15	Gonzaga	url=http://www.gozags.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=26400&ATCLID=210005190/	title=Fortier Named National Rookie Coach of the Year	publisher=Gonzaga Bulldogs	date=2015-04-06	accessdate=April 6, 2015	url-status=dead	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150413225632/http://www.gozags.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=26400&ATCLID=210005190%2F	archive-date=April 13, 2015}}
2015–16	Georgia
2016–17	Dayton
2017–18	Belmont
2018–19	Southern
2019–20	Missouri State
2020–21	Kentucky
2021–22	Florida
2022–23	Chattanooga
2023–24	Marshall
2024–25	Iowa

Winners by school

School	Winners	Years
Ball State	1	2009
Belmont	2018
Chattanooga	2023
Dayton	2017
Florida	2022
Georgia	2016
Gonzaga	2015
High Point	2012
Hofstra	2007
Illinois State	2011
Iona	2014
Iowa	2025
Kentucky	2021
Louisiana Tech	2010
Louisville	2008
Marshall	2024
Missouri State	2020
Southern	2019
Tennessee	2013

Gallery

|File:Jeff Walz.jpg|alt2=Jeff Walz, coach of the Louisville Cardinals women's basketball team and winner of the 2008 Maggie Dixon Award, standing on the sideline at a UConn vs Louisville game in Veterans Memorial Coliseum|2008—Jeff Walz, Head Coach Louisville Cardinals |File:Teresa Weatherspoon at Maggie Dixon.jpg|alt4=Teresa Weatherspoon, Louisiana Tech women's basketball head coach, winner of the 2010 Maggie Dixon Award, standing on the sideline at the Maggie Dixon Classic in Madison Square Garden|2010—Teresa Weatherspoon, Louisiana Tech women's basketball head coach |File:Stephanie Glance.JPG|alt5=Stephanie Glance, head women's basketball coach at Illinois State University and winner of the 2011 Maggie Dixon Award|2011—Stephanie Glance, head women's basketball coach at Columbia University |File:Jennifer Hoover Head Coach High Point University.jpg|alt6=photo of Jennifer Hoover, the winner of the 2012 Maggie Dixon Award|2012—Jennifer Hoover, Head Coach High Point University |File:Holly Warlick Tennessee.JPG|alt7=photo of Holly Warlick, the winner of the 2013 Maggie Dixon Award|2013—Holly Warlick, Head Coach University of Tennessee

References

(20 November 2009). "The Maggie Dixon Story: An Inspiring Legacy". [[DePaul University]].
"Coaching Awards: Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year". Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
(2010). "Krista Kilburn-Steveskey bio". [[Hofstra University]].
(1 April 2008). "Jeff Walz Named WBCA Maggie Dixon Rookie Coach of the Year". [[University of Louisville]].
(30 March 2009). "Packard Named Maggie Dixon Rookie Coach Of The Year". [[Ball State University]].
(March 2020). "LA Tech's Teresa Weatherspoon Takes Home Maggie Dixon Division I Rookie Coach of the Year Accolade". SportsPageMagazine.com.
Reinhardt, Randy. (29 March 2011). "ISU's Glance named top 1st-year basketball coach". Pantagraph.com.
Fleser, Dan. (April 8, 2013). "Holly Warlick receives Maggie Dixon award for rookie coaches". Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group.
Heyman, Brian. (April 7, 2014). "Women's basketball: Iona's Billi Godsey named rookie coach of year". Gannett Company.
(2015-04-06). "Fortier Named National Rookie Coach of the Year". Gonzaga Bulldogs.
"Taylor Named Spalding Maggie Dixon Coach Of The Year". Georgia Bulldogs.
(March 31, 2017). "Shauna Green Named 2017 Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year". [[Women's Basketball Coaches Association]].
(March 26, 2018). "Belmont's Bart Brooks Named 2018 Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year". Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
(April 3, 2019). "Carlos Funchess Named 2019 Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year". Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
(March 31, 2020). "Amaka Agugua-Hamilton Named 2020 Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year". Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
(March 31, 2021). "Kyra Elzy Earns Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA D-I Rookie Coach of the Year Award". Kentucky Athletics.
(March 30, 2022). "Florida’s Finley named 2022 Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year". Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
(March 29, 2023). "Chattanooga's Poppie Named 2023 Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year". Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
(April 3, 2024). "Marshall’s Kim Caldwell named 2024 Spalding® Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year".
(April 2, 2025). "Iowa's Jan Jensen named 2025 Spalding® Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year". Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
"Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year". Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
(April 4, 2012). "Hoover gets coaching award". Winston-Salem Journal.

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