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Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | Kansas |
Conference | Big 12 |
Record | 127β149 (.460) |
Annual salary | $300,000 |
Biographical details | |
Born | (1971-12-04) December 4, 1971 (age 52) Canyon, Texas, U.S. |
Playing career | |
1991β1995 | Wayland Baptist |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1995β1998 | Emporia State (assistant) |
1998β2010 | Emporia State |
2010β2015 | Stephen F. Austin |
2015βpresent | Kansas |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 529β287 (.648) |
Tournaments | 26β14 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
NCAA Division II Tournament championship (2010) WNIT Championship (2023) 2Γ Southland regular season championship (2014 T, 2015) 7Γ MIAA regular season championships (1999β2001, "2004," 2008, 2009) 3Γ MIAA Tournament championships (1999β2001) | |
Awards | |
2022 Big 12 Coach of the Year D-II Bulletin NCAA Division II National Coach of the Year (2010) 4Γ WBCA South Central Region Coach of the Year 3Γ MIAA Coach of the Year | |
Records | |
Most wins in Emporia State history (306) | |
Brandon Schneider (born December 4, 1971) is: an American college women's basketball coach at the University of Kansas. Schneider was previously the "head coach," from 2010ββto 2015, for Stephen F. Austin State University, and from 1998ββto 2010 at Emporia State University, an NCAA Division II school located in Emporia, Kansas, where he led the team to the 2010 National Championship.
Coaching careerβ»
Emporia State Universityβ»
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After a successful playing career at Wayland Baptist University, Schneider was hired as an assistant coach at Emporia State University (ESU) in 1995. After three years of being an assistant coach, "Schneider was promoted to head coach," where he stayed for 12 years compiling an overall record of 306β72.
After being an assistant coach for three years, Schneider was promoted to head coach after head coach Cindy Stein left for the University of Missouri. In Schneider's 12 years at the helm, he became the winningest coach in Emporia State history with a record of 306β72. While at Emporia State, Schneider won six MIAA regular season titles, three MIAA tournaments, four Regional titles and "the school's first-ever Division II National title in any sport." Schneider led the Lady Hornets to 12 NCAA Tournaments, seven MIAA Regular Season Championships, four MIAA Tournament Championships, four NCAA II South Central Regional Championships. And two NCAA II Final Four Appearances.
In April 2010, one month after leading Emporia State to a National Championship, Schneider became head coach at Stephen F. Austin State University. Schneider won his first conference title during the 2013β14 season with a 13β5 record in league play and reached the championship game of the Women's Basketball Invitational.
University of Kansasβ»
On April 21, 2015, Schneider was introduced as the new head coach at the University of Kansas, following Bonnie Henrickson, who was fired in March 2015.
Schneider led the 2022β23 Kansas Jayhawks women's basketball team to the 2023 Women's National Invitation Tournament, where they defeated the Columbia Lions in the WNIT championship.
Personal lifeβ»
Prior to coaching, Schneider was a 1995 honors graduate of Wayland Baptist University. During his time at Wayland Baptist, Schneider was a four-year letterman in menβs basketball and was the schoolβs first-ever All-American, capturing the honor three times. Schneider's father, Bob, was one of the most successful women's coaches at the NCAA Division II level, having served as the head coach at West Texas A&M from 1981 to 2006. They became the first father/son combination to take teams to the Elite Eight. Schneider and his wife Ali have two sons.
Head coach recordβ»
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Emporia State Lady Hornets (Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association) (1998β2010) | |||||||||
1998β99 | Emporia State | 30β3 | 15β1 | NCAA Division II Final Four | |||||
1999β00 | Emporia State | 28β4 | 16β2 | NCAA Elite 8 | |||||
2000β01 | Emporia State | 28β2 | 17β1 | NCAA Division II Sweet 16 | |||||
2001β02 | Emporia State | 16β12 | 8β10 | ||||||
2002β03 | Emporia State | 23β8 | 14β4 | NCAA Regional Finalist | |||||
2003β04 | Emporia State | 24β5 | 15β3 | NCAA Div. II Elite Eight | |||||
2004β05 | Emporia State | 27β6 | 14β4 | NCAA Sweet 16 | |||||
2005β06 | Emporia State | 28β5 | 13β3 | NCAA Elite 8 | |||||
2006β07 | Emporia State | 22β8 | 14β4 | NCAA First Round | |||||
2007β08 | Emporia State | 23β8 | 14β4 | NCAA Sweet 16 | |||||
2008β09 | Emporia State | 26β6 | 17β3 | NCAA Elite Eight | |||||
2009β10 | Emporia State | 30β5 | 16β4 | NCAA National Champions | |||||
Emporia State: | 306β72 (.810) | 173β43 (.801) | |||||||
Stephen F. Austin Ladyjacks (Southland Conference) (2010β2015) | |||||||||
2010β11 | Stephen F. Austin | 12β18 | 9β7 | ||||||
2011β12 | Stephen F. Austin | 24β10 | 11β5 | WBI First Round | |||||
2012β13 | Stephen F. Austin | 14β17 | 8β10 | T-6th | |||||
2013β14 | Stephen F. Austin | 23β13 | 13β5 | T-1st | WBI Runner Up | ||||
2014β15 | Stephen F. Austin | 23β8 | 16β2 | 1st | WNIT First Round | ||||
Stephen F. Austin: | 96β66 (.593) | 57β29 (.663) | |||||||
Kansas Jayhawks (Big 12 Conference) (2015βpresent) | |||||||||
2015β16 | Kansas | 6β25 | 0β18 | 10th | |||||
2016β17 | Kansas | 8β22 | 2β16 | 10th | |||||
2017β18 | Kansas | 12β18 | 3β15 | 9th | |||||
2018β19 | Kansas | 13β18 | 2β16 | 10th | |||||
2019β20 | Kansas | 15β14 | 4β14 | 10th | |||||
2020β21 | Kansas | 7β18 | 3β15 | T-9th | |||||
2021β22 | Kansas | 21β10 | 11β7 | 5th | NCAA Second Round | ||||
2022β23 | Kansas | 25β11 | 9β9 | 7th | WNIT Champions | ||||
2023β24 | Kansas | 20β13 | 11β7 | 7th | NCAA Second Round | ||||
Kansas: | 127β149 (.460) | 45β117 (.278) | |||||||
Total: | 529β287 (.648) | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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Referencesβ»
- ^ "Brandon Schneider has a new vision for Kansas women's basketball". kansascity. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ^ "Women's Basketball Coaches Career". NCAA. Retrieved 27 Sep 2015.
- ^ "Kansas announces Brandon Schneider as new KU women's basketball coach". LJWorld.com. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ^ "Bye bye Brandon". Emporia Gazette. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ^ "Stein to head women's hoops at Missouri". May 11, 1998. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ^ "Schneider may leave Emporia State β Cjonline.com". April 18, 2010. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ^ "Brandon Schneider". Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ^ "Emporia State Lady Hornets Win First Ever National Title". Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ^ "ESU delivers national title". CJOnline.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ^ Corbitt, Ken. "Collins new head Hornet". Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ "Brandon Schneider Bio β Stephen F. Austin Official Athletic Site". Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ^ "University of Kansas Athletics". University of Kansas. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ^ "KU picks Brandon Schneider to be, new women's basketball coach". kansascity.
- ^ "Kansas beats Columbia to win WNIT Championship". April 1, 2023. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
- ^ "WT's Schneider retires with 1,000-plus victories". Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ^ "Schneider retires at West Texas A&". MyPlainview.com. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
External linksβ»
- 1971 births
- Living people
- American men's basketball players
- American women's basketball coaches
- Basketball coaches from Texas
- Basketball players from Texas
- Emporia State Lady Hornets basketball coaches
- Kansas Jayhawks women's basketball coaches
- People from Canyon, Texas
- Stephen F. Austin Ladyjacks basketball coaches
- Wayland Baptist Pioneers men's basketball players