WNBA Coach of the Year

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.

Seven coaches have won both this award and the WNBA Finals in the same season: Van Chancellor (1997–1999), Bill Laimbeer (2003), John Whisenant (2005), Brian Agler (2010), Cheryl Reeve (2011), Sandy Brondello (2014), and Becky Hammon (2022).

Cheryl Reeve has won the award the most times, with 4 selections.

Winners

Team (X)	Denotes the number of times a coach of this team has won

Season	Coach	Nationality	Team	Record	Van Chancellor	Van Chancellor (2)	Van Chancellor (3)	Cheryl Reeve	Sandy Brondello	Cheryl Reeve (2)	Cheryl Reeve (3)	Stephanie White	Cheryl Reeve (4)	Natalie Nakase
1997		Houston Comets	18–10
1998		Houston Comets (2)	27–3
1999		Houston Comets (3)	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 (2)	21–13
2009	Marynell Meadors		Atlanta Dream	18–16
2010	Brian Agler		Seattle Storm	28–6
2011		Minnesota Lynx (2)	27–7
2012	Carol Ross		Los Angeles Sparks (2)	24–10
2013	Mike Thibault (3)		Washington Mystics (2)	17–17
2014		Phoenix Mercury	29–5
2015	Bill Laimbeer (2)		New York Liberty	23–11
2016		Minnesota Lynx (3)	28–6
2017	Curt Miller		Connecticut Sun (3)	21–13
2018	Nicki Collen		Atlanta Dream (2)	23–11
2019	James Wade	/	Chicago Sky	20–14
2020		Minnesota Lynx (4)	14–8{{cite web	url=https://www.wnba.com/news/cheryl-reeve-named-wnba-coach-of-the-year/	title=Cheryl Reeve Named WNBA Coach Of The Year	publisher=WNBA	date=September 17, 2020	access-date=September 18, 2020}}
2021	Curt Miller (2)		Connecticut Sun (4)	26–6{{cite web	url=https://www.wnba.com/news/connecticut-sun-head-coach-curt-miller-named-2021-coach-of-the-year/	title=Connecticut Sun Head Coach Curt Miller Named 2021 Coach Of the Year	publisher=WNBA	date=September 28, 2021	access-date=September 28, 2021}}
2022	Becky Hammon	/	Las Vegas Aces (2)	26–10
2023		Connecticut Sun (5)	27–13
2024		Minnesota Lynx (5)	30–10
2025		Golden State Valkyries	23–21