Robin Selvig
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Robin Selvig is an American women's college basketball coach. He is currently the head coach
for the Lady Griz women's basketball team at the University of Montana. Selvig is in his 33rd season with the Lady Griz in 2010-11. It is his 38th year as either a player or a coach at his alma mater. Selvig enters the 2010-2011 basketball season ranked sixth among active coaches in victories with 740.
, earning second-team All-Big Sky honors as a senior in 1974. In his final year of competition he was awarded the John Eaheart Award as the team’s top defensive player and the Grizzly Cup, an annual award given to the University of Montana's Department of Athletics’ best all-around athlete, scholar and person. Selvig played his final three years for former Griz and Michigan State University
coach Jud Heathcote
. Montana went 19-8 Selvig’s senior season, tying for the Big Sky Conference
regular-season title with an 11-3 league record.
, where he totaled a 38-24 record over three seasons. Selvig was then hired by UM Director of Athletics Harley Lewis June 6, 1978, following a three-year stint coaching high school girls’ basketball.
Montana made its first of 22 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship
appearances under Selvig in 1981-82, losing 57-52 decision to Wayland Baptist
in the opening round of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women national tournament in Berkeley, Calif
. After coaching Montana in the NWBL for four seasons, Selvig and the Lady Griz moved to the Mountain West Conference
in 1982-83. Selvig and Montana continued success in the Mountain West Conference for six seasons, going 78-6 in conference play, winning five regular-season league titles and four postseason conference championships and earning four NCAA tournament trips.
The 1982-83 season marked the University of Montana Lady Griz basketball team's first trip to the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament
, losing at Louisiana-Monroe
, 72-53 in the first round. In 1983-84, the Lady Griz recorded their first NCAA tournament win, a 56-47 home-court victory over Oregon State
. Starting in 1987-88, Selvig took Montana to the NCAA tournament 10 of the next 11 seasons.
In 1988, the Lady Griz moved to the Big Sky Conference. The success they had in the NWBL and MWC translated into their new conference. Montana won the first three Big Sky Conference women’s basketball titles with perfect 16-0 records. The team has gone 283-51 (.847) in Big Sky play, winning 15 conference titles in 22 seasons. Selvig is ranked 8th in wining percentage among coaches of women's college basketball teams.
(WBCA) District VII Coach of the Year nine times. Following the 1990-91 season, Selvig was one of three finalists for national coach of the year honors. He was inducted into the Grizzly Basketball Hall of Fame in February 1983 and the Grizzly Sports Hall of Fame in 2001. Montana has gone 394-72 in league play under Selvig, a .845 winning percentage. Selvig has coached one All-American, 12 conference Most Valuable Player
s, 81 all-conference athletes and 115 academic all-conference selections.
as the sixth-fastest coach in NCAA men’s or women’s Division I basketball history to reach 700 victories.
Pat Summitt (1,037), Rutgers' Vivian Stringer (843), North Carolina’s
Sylvia Hatchell
(831), Stanford’s
Tara VanDerveer
(793) and Georgia’s
Andy Landers
(750).
Selvig ranks eighth in winning percentage at .772. Filling the seven spots above him are Connecticut’s Geno Auriemma
(.858), Summitt (.841), VanDerveer (.803), Arkansas-Little Rock’s Joe Foley (.780), Chattanooga’s Wes Moore (.777), Baylor’s Kim Mulkey (.776) and Texas’s Gail Goestenkors
(.773).
His 27 20-win seasons at Montana is a feat surpassed by only Summitt (34 20-win seasons), Vivian Stringer (30) and former Texas coach Jody Conradt (29) in women’s Division I history.
, Selvig came from a family of eight children. Selvig graduated from the University of Montana in the spring of 1974 with a degree in health and physical education. His brother, Doug, and sister, Sandy, were both University of Montana basketball letterwinners. Doug Selvig’s daughter, Carly, is a freshman member of the 2010-11 Lady Griz basketball team, and son, Derrick, is a junior on the 2010-11 Griz basketball team. Selvig and his wife, Janie, have two adult sons. Jeff and wife Mariana live in Los Angeles
. Dan Selvig is attending University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan
.
Selvig has also served as the director of the Montana Special Olympics and as a spokesman for Missoula Youth Homes and is the chairman of the 2011 Missoula Heart Walk.
Head coach
A head coach, senior coach or manager is a professional at training and developing athletes. They typically hold a more public profile and are paid more than other coaches...
for the Lady Griz women's basketball team at the University of Montana. Selvig is in his 33rd season with the Lady Griz in 2010-11. It is his 38th year as either a player or a coach at his alma mater. Selvig enters the 2010-2011 basketball season ranked sixth among active coaches in victories with 740.
Basketball career
While Selvig is entering his 33rd season as coach of the Lady Griz, his association with the University of Montana goes back to the fall of 1970, when he was at UM as a student-athlete. Selvig was a four-year member of the Montana Grizzly men's basketball teamMontana Grizzlies men's basketball
The Montana Grizzlies men's basketball team is an NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Big Sky Conference. Home games are played at Dahlberg Arena located inside the University of Montana's Adams Center.-Season by season records:...
, earning second-team All-Big Sky honors as a senior in 1974. In his final year of competition he was awarded the John Eaheart Award as the team’s top defensive player and the Grizzly Cup, an annual award given to the University of Montana's Department of Athletics’ best all-around athlete, scholar and person. Selvig played his final three years for former Griz and Michigan State University
Michigan State University
Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,...
coach Jud Heathcote
Jud Heathcote
George Melvin "Jud" Heathcote is a former college basketball coach. He was a head coach for 24 seasons at the collegiate level: five at Montana and 19 at Michigan State...
. Montana went 19-8 Selvig’s senior season, tying for the Big Sky Conference
Big Sky Conference
The Big Sky Conference is an intercollegiate college athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I, with football competing in the Football Championship Subdivision. The BSC was founded in 1963. Member institutions are located in the western United States in the states of Arizona,...
regular-season title with an 11-3 league record.
Early coaching career
Selvig began his coaching career following the end of his time as a University of Montana student-athlete. After coaching the Montana men’s freshman team to a 10-8 record in 1974-75, Selvig took over the girls’ basketball program at Plentywood High in Plentywood, MontanaPlentywood, Montana
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,061 people, 857 households, and 522 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,756.1 people per square mile . There were 1,020 housing units at an average density of 869.1 per square mile...
, where he totaled a 38-24 record over three seasons. Selvig was then hired by UM Director of Athletics Harley Lewis June 6, 1978, following a three-year stint coaching high school girls’ basketball.
Montana coaching career
Selvig took the head coaching reins for the University of Montana women's basketball team in fall of 1978, inheriting a team that had gone 7-13 the previous season under head coach Eddye McClure. Selvig’s first Montana Lady Griz team finished 13-13 and in second place in the Northwest Women’s Basketball League. After going 19-10 in 1979-80, Montana went 22-8 in 1980-81 and won the program’s first league title. The season started a string of 19 consecutive winning seasons and 18 straight 20-win seasons.Montana made its first of 22 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship
NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship
The NCAA Women's Division I Championship is an annual college basketball tournament for women. Held each April, the Women's Championship was inaugurated in the 1981–82 season...
appearances under Selvig in 1981-82, losing 57-52 decision to Wayland Baptist
Wayland Baptist University
Wayland Baptist University is private, coeducational Baptist university based in Plainview, Texas, U.S.A. Wayland Baptist has a total of fourteen campuses in four additional Texas cities, five other states, and the country of Kenya. On August 31, 1908, the university was chartered by the state of...
in the opening round of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women national tournament in Berkeley, Calif
Berkeley, California
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. After coaching Montana in the NWBL for four seasons, Selvig and the Lady Griz moved to the Mountain West Conference
Mountain West Conference
The Mountain West Conference , popularly known as the Mountain West, is the youngest of the college athletic conferences affiliated with the NCAA’s Division I FBS . The MWC officially began operations in July 1999...
in 1982-83. Selvig and Montana continued success in the Mountain West Conference for six seasons, going 78-6 in conference play, winning five regular-season league titles and four postseason conference championships and earning four NCAA tournament trips.
The 1982-83 season marked the University of Montana Lady Griz basketball team's first trip to the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament
NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship
The NCAA Women's Division I Championship is an annual college basketball tournament for women. Held each April, the Women's Championship was inaugurated in the 1981–82 season...
, losing at Louisiana-Monroe
University of Louisiana at Monroe
The University of Louisiana at Monroe is a coeducational public university in Monroe, Louisiana and part of the University of Louisiana System.-History:...
, 72-53 in the first round. In 1983-84, the Lady Griz recorded their first NCAA tournament win, a 56-47 home-court victory over Oregon State
Oregon State University
Oregon State University is a coeducational, public research university located in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. The university offers undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees and a multitude of research opportunities. There are more than 200 academic degree programs offered through the...
. Starting in 1987-88, Selvig took Montana to the NCAA tournament 10 of the next 11 seasons.
In 1988, the Lady Griz moved to the Big Sky Conference. The success they had in the NWBL and MWC translated into their new conference. Montana won the first three Big Sky Conference women’s basketball titles with perfect 16-0 records. The team has gone 283-51 (.847) in Big Sky play, winning 15 conference titles in 22 seasons. Selvig is ranked 8th in wining percentage among coaches of women's college basketball teams.
Coaching awards
Selvig won his first conference coach of the year award after the 1981-82 NWBL season. Eighteen more league accolades have followed, with five Mountain West and 13 Big Sky Conference coach of the year awards. Selvig has also been named the Women’s Basketball Coaches AssociationWomen's Basketball Coaches Association
The Women's Basketball Coaches Association is an association of coaches of women's basketball teams at all levels.The organization was formed in 1981, with the goal of addressing the needs of women's basketball coaches.The mission of the WBCA is:...
(WBCA) District VII Coach of the Year nine times. Following the 1990-91 season, Selvig was one of three finalists for national coach of the year honors. He was inducted into the Grizzly Basketball Hall of Fame in February 1983 and the Grizzly Sports Hall of Fame in 2001. Montana has gone 394-72 in league play under Selvig, a .845 winning percentage. Selvig has coached one All-American, 12 conference Most Valuable Player
Most Valuable Player
In sports, a Most Valuable Player award is an honor typically bestowed upon the best performing player or players on a specific team, in an entire league, or for a particular contest or series of contests...
s, 81 all-conference athletes and 115 academic all-conference selections.
Win No. 700
Selvig reached career victory No. 700 with Montana’s 59-57 overtime victory over the University of Illinois in Cancun, Mexico, Nov. 26, 2008. By winning his 700th game in 899 games coached, Selvig matched former Texas coach Jody ConradtJody Conradt
Jody Conradt is a retired women's basketball coach. She was the head coach for the women's team at University of Texas at Austin . Her coaching career spanned 38 years, with the last 31 years at UT from 1976 to 2007. She also served concurrently as the UT women's athletic director from 1992 to 2001...
as the sixth-fastest coach in NCAA men’s or women’s Division I basketball history to reach 700 victories.
Head coaching record
Selvig has amassed a head coaching record of 740-218 going into the 2010-2011 season. Selvig enters the 2010-2011 season ranked sixth among active coaches in victories with 740. He trails Tennessee’sUniversity of Tennessee
The University of Tennessee is a public land-grant university headquartered at Knoxville, Tennessee, United States...
Pat Summitt (1,037), Rutgers' Vivian Stringer (843), North Carolina’s
University of North Carolina
Chartered in 1789, the University of North Carolina was one of the first public universities in the United States and the only one to graduate students in the eighteenth century...
Sylvia Hatchell
Sylvia Hatchell
Sylvia Rhyne Hatchell is head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.She competed with USA Basketball as the Head Coach of the 1994 Jones Cup Team that won the Gold in Taipei.-College:...
(831), Stanford’s
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
Tara VanDerveer
Tara Vanderveer
Tara VanDerveer has been the Stanford University women's basketball coach since 1985. She led the Stanford Cardinal to two NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championships: in 1990 and 1992. She stepped away from the Stanford program for a year to serve as the U.S. national team head coach at the...
(793) and Georgia’s
University of Georgia
The University of Georgia is a public research university located in Athens, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States...
Andy Landers
Andy Landers
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(750).
Selvig ranks eighth in winning percentage at .772. Filling the seven spots above him are Connecticut’s Geno Auriemma
Geno Auriemma
Luigi "Geno" Auriemma is the head coach of the University of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, which he has led to seven National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I national championships...
(.858), Summitt (.841), VanDerveer (.803), Arkansas-Little Rock’s Joe Foley (.780), Chattanooga’s Wes Moore (.777), Baylor’s Kim Mulkey (.776) and Texas’s Gail Goestenkors
Gail Goestenkors
Gail Ann Goestenkors , is the women's basketball head coach for The University of Texas, having accepted the position on April 3, 2007, replacing the legendary Jody Conradt. Goestenkors was the Duke University women's basketball head coach from 1992–2007...
(.773).
His 27 20-win seasons at Montana is a feat surpassed by only Summitt (34 20-win seasons), Vivian Stringer (30) and former Texas coach Jody Conradt (29) in women’s Division I history.
Personal life
A native of Outlook, MontanaOutlook, Montana
As of the census of 2000, there were 82 people, 35 households, and 22 families residing in the town. The population density was 62.8 people per square mile . There were 43 housing units at an average density of 33.0 per square mile . The racial makeup of the town was 95.12% White, 3.66% Native...
, Selvig came from a family of eight children. Selvig graduated from the University of Montana in the spring of 1974 with a degree in health and physical education. His brother, Doug, and sister, Sandy, were both University of Montana basketball letterwinners. Doug Selvig’s daughter, Carly, is a freshman member of the 2010-11 Lady Griz basketball team, and son, Derrick, is a junior on the 2010-11 Griz basketball team. Selvig and his wife, Janie, have two adult sons. Jeff and wife Mariana live in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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. Dan Selvig is attending University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2010 census places the population at 113,934, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 344,791 as of 2010...
.
Selvig has also served as the director of the Montana Special Olympics and as a spokesman for Missoula Youth Homes and is the chairman of the 2011 Missoula Heart Walk.
External links
- Lady Griz Basketball official webpage
- http://www.montanagrizzlies.com/bios/?b=1119&m=48
- http://www.montanagrizzlies.com/pages/?p=83&m=48
- http://www.ladygrizbasketball.com/
- http://missoulian.com/sports/football/college/article_ff8cbc25-5cdf-57d6-a947-dc2bb0f3fb0f.html