Todd Stansbury <\/strong>announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\nOne of the most successful coaches in women\u2019s basketball history, Fortner has compiled a 305-187 (.620) record as a head coach at the collegiate, professional and international levels. She has led teams to Big Ten (Purdue \u2013 1997) and Southeastern Conference (Auburn \u2013 2009) championships and, perhaps most notably, coached the United States national team to three international titles from 1997-2000, including the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m excited to welcome Coach Fortner to the Georgia Tech family,\u201d Stansbury said. \u201cHer resume speaks for itself \u2013 she is one of the most successful and respected coaches in women\u2019s basketball history. She\u2019s not only led teams to Olympic gold and major conference championships, but she has also proven to be an outstanding leader of young women who has embodied our mission of developing the young people who will change the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fortner is the winningest coach in the history of the USA women\u2019s basketball national team, having compiled a 101-14 (.878) record. In addition to the 2000 Olympics championship, she also led the team to the gold medal at the 1998 World Championship in Berlin, Germany and the 1998 William Jones Cup in Taipei, Taiwan.<\/p>\n
At the collegiate level, Fortner has nine seasons of experience as a head coach \u2013 one at Purdue (1996-97) and eight at Auburn (2004-12) \u2013 and has compiled a 162-117 (.581) overall record in the college ranks.<\/p>\n
In her first season as a collegiate head coach, she led Purdue to a share of the Big Ten regular-season championship with a 12-4 conference record and an NCAA Tournament berth. Following the impressive rookie campaign, she was named the 1997 Basketball Times <\/em>National Coach of the Year.<\/p>\nShe left Purdue after one season to take over as the full-time head coach of the U.S. national team but returned to the collegiate ranks in 2004 at Auburn. With Fortner at the helm, Auburn won at least 20 games three times, highlighted by a 30-4 campaign in 2008-09 that saw the Tigers win the SEC regular-season title for the first time in 20 years and saw Fortner named the SEC and WBCA Region III Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n
In addition to her stints as head coach with Purdue, the U.S. national team and Auburn, Fortner served as the first head coach and general manager in the history of the WNBA\u2019s Indiana Fever from 2000-03. She didn\u2019t coach the Fever in 2000 due to the Summer Olympics, but took over coaching duties in \u201901 and led the franchise to its first playoffs appearance in \u201902.<\/p>\n
Jeff Schemmel, CSS and Dan Walters, Buffkin Baker handled the search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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