HOPEWELL, N.J. — With an undefeated conference record and nine-straight wins, Eastern Washington women's basketball head coach
Joddie Gleason is getting noticed at a national level. Gleason was named to the watch list for the 2024 Kathy Delaney-Smith Mid-Major Coach of the Year Award, presented by Her Hoop Stats.
In her third season leading Eastern, Gleason has the Eagles sitting on top of the Big Sky Standings with a 5-0 record in conference and 15-3 overall. EWU has a plus-16.9 scoring margin and allows a conference-low 55.1 points per game.
At Eastern, Gleason has a career 43-35 overall record, going 23-20 in Big Sky games. Gleason's 2022-23 team tied a program record with a 10-win improvement from the previous season, going from nine to 19 wins.
The team has five All-Conference selections in Gleason's tenure, along with 19 All-Big Sky Academic team individual honors. The Eagles have also earned a WBCA Special Mention, maintaining a team GPA above 3.0, in each of the last two seasons.
EWU travels this week to play the second-place teams in the Big Sky, starting with Northern Colorado on Thursday (Jan. 25) at 5 p.m. Pacific Time. The Eagles then NAU on Saturday (Jan. 27) at 1 p.m.
About Her Hoop Stats
Her Hoop Stats was founded in 2017 to unlock better insight about women's basketball at all levels. We began as a statistics site focused on providing consistent, reliable, and easy-to-access data about women's basketball for both mobile and desktop environments. Her Hoop Stats has expanded to become a leading independent voice in the women's game providing content through our newsletter, podcast network, YouTube channel, and social media accounts (Twitter,Facebook, Instagram).
About Kathy Delaney-Smith
Delaney-Smith's Harvard teams compiled a record of 630-434 (.592) in her 40-year career, including a 367-168 (.685) record in Ivy League play. Delaney-Smith's 630 wins rank 31st in Division I history, and ninth among coaches who spent their entire career with a single team.
Delaney-Smith led her teams to six NCAA Tournament appearances and nine WNIT appearances, plus three Ivy League titles before the NCAA Tournament awarded automatic bids to the Ivy League champion. She has coached eight Ivy League Player of the Year recipients, six Ivy League Rookie of the Year winners, and all 22 of Harvard's 1,000-point scorers in the program's NCAA Division I history.
Delaney-Smith was inducted into the Massachusetts Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame in 1986, becoming the first woman to ever be inducted, with more than three decades of her career still ahead of her. She was also inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003. A native of Newton, Mass., Delaney-Smith is also among the most accomplished high school players and coaches in the state's history. She was the first woman in state history to score 1,000 points while at Sacred Heart High School. As a high school coach, Delaney-Smith coached Westwood High School
Season tickets for EWU men's and women's basketball are now available and start as low as $100! Tickets for basketball and all EWU Athletics events are available at goeags.com/tickets or via the EWU Athletics Ticket Office at 509-359-6059.
ABOUT EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS
Eastern Washington University Athletics sponsors 14 intercollegiate sports, six for men and eight for women, both as learning opportunities for its most athletically talented students and as an enhancement to student and community life. Eastern is affiliated with Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and is a member of the Big Sky Conference, an association of 10 regional schools with comparable enrollments and academic goals.
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