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Jennie Baranczyk

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Jennie Baranczyk
Current position
TitleHead Coach
TeamOklahoma
ConferenceSEC
Record74–26 (.740)
Annual salary$1,075,000
Biographical details
Born (1982-02-22) February 22, 1982 (age 42)
Urbandale, Iowa
Alma materIowa
Playing career
2000–2004Iowa
Position(s)Power forward
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Women's Basketball
2004–2006Kansas State (assistant)
2006–2010Marquette (assistant)
2010–2012Colorado (assistant)
2012–2021Drake
2021–presentOklahoma
Head coaching record
Overall266–122 (.686)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Awards
  • Big 12 Coach of the Year (2024)
  • 2x MVC Coach of the Year (2017, 2018)

As player:

  • First-team All-Big Ten (2003)
  • 2× Second-team All-Big Ten (2002, 2004)

Jennie Lillis Baranczyk (born Jennie Marie Lillis; February 22, 1982)[1] is an American basketball coach who is the current head coach of the University of Oklahoma women's basketball team.[2]

Early life and education

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Born Jennie Marie Lillis in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,[1] Jennie Baranczyk was raised in Urbandale, Iowa and attended Dowling Catholic High School in nearby West Des Moines, the same high school which Caitlin Clark graduated from.[3] A communications major, Baranczyk attended the University of Iowa and played at forward on the Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball team under head coach Lisa Bluder from 2000 to 2004.[3] As a senior, Baranczyk averaged 16.0 points and 6.2 rebounds and was a second-team All-Big Ten selection. She also earned second-team All-Big Ten honors in 2002 and first-team honors in 2003, in addition to being a Women's Basketball Coaches Association Region 6 honorable mention All-American, and was an academic All-Big Ten honoree from 2002 to 2004.[3] Baranczyk won the Big Ten's Medal of Honor for academic and athletic excellence upon graduating from Iowa in 2004.[4]

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high
Year Team GP Points FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2000–01 Iowa 31 333 49.0% 0.0% 62.6% 7.6 1.8 1.1 0.8 10.7
2001–02 Iowa 29 429 53.7% 33.3% 79.0% 6.0 2.6 1.2 0.8 14.8
2002–03 Iowa 33 537 48.2% 41.7% 77.0% 7.2 2.2 2.0 1.2 16.3
2003–04 Iowa 29 463 43.4% 36.6% 81.7% 6.2 3.2 1.9 0.9 16.0
Career 122 1762 48.2% 36.0% 75.5% 6.8 2.4 1.6 0.9 14.4

Coaching career

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Baranczyk began her coaching career in 2004 at Kansas State under Deb Patterson and helped Kansas State win the 2006 WNIT. From 2006 to 2010, Baranczyk was an assistant at Marquette under Terri Mitchell, including Marquette's 2008 WNIT title.[5] At Marquette, Baranczyk also helped with recruiting, game scheduling, opponent scouting, and public relations.[6] The first hire on the new coaching staff, Baranczyk then was an assistant at Colorado under Linda Lappe beginning on May 10, 2010.[4]

Drake

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On April 17, 2012, Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa hired Baranczyk as head women's basketball coach.[2] Drake went 11–20 in Baranczyk's first season and improved to 17–15 in the 2013–14 season. Baranczyk followed that season by leading Drake to a 20–11 record and the first round of the 2015 WNIT, the first postseason appearance in her tenure. In 2016, Drake improved to 23–10 and advanced to the second round of the WNIT.[5]

The 2016–17 season was the most successful in Baranczyk's tenure, as Drake reached a 28–5 record that included a program and Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) record 22-game winning streak and 18–0 MVC record, the first team in the MVC to go undefeated in conference play. Drake won its first conference title since 2008 and first outright title since 2000. Drake went on to win the MVC tournament for the first time since 2007 and qualified for the NCAA tournament.[5]

Oklahoma

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Baranczyk was named head coach at Oklahoma on April 10, 2021, after nine years at Drake.[7] In her first three years, she has brought Oklahoma into the second round of the NCAA Tournament. She delivered a Big 12 Conference regular season championship to the Sooners in 2022–23, the program's first in 15 years. The next season, Baranczyk and OU won their second consecutive conference title, posting a 15–3 record in Big 12 play to win the title outright. She was named the Big 12's Coach of the Year in 2024 and coached Big 12 Player of the Year Skylar Vann and the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year Payton Verhulst.

She became the first Oklahoma head coach to be named a National Coach of the Year finalist in each of their first three seasons.

Personal life

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Formerly Jennie Lillis, Baranczyk married Scott Baranczyk in 2009.[2] They have three children.[5]

Head coaching record

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Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Drake Bulldogs (Missouri Valley Conference) (2012–2021)
2012–13 Drake 11–20 5–13 9th
2013–14 Drake 17–15 9–9 5th
2014–15 Drake 20–11 15–3 2nd WNIT First Round
2015–16 Drake 23–10 14–4 T–2nd WNIT Second Round
2016–17 Drake 28–5 18–0 1st NCAA First Round
2017–18 Drake 26–8 18–0 1st NCAA First Round
2018–19 Drake 27–7 17–1 1st NCAA First Round
2019–20 Drake 22–8 14–4 2nd Postseason not held
2020–21 Drake 18–12 13–5 2nd WNIT First Round
Drake: 192–96 (.667) 123–39 (.759)
Oklahoma Sooners (Big 12 Conference) (2021–2024)
2021–22 Oklahoma 25–9 12–6 4th NCAA Second Round
2022–23 Oklahoma 26–7 14–4 T–1st NCAA Second Round
2023–24 Oklahoma 23–10 15–3 1st NCAA Second Round
Oklahoma: 74–26 (.740) 41–13 (.759)
Oklahoma Sooners (Southeastern Conference) (2024–present)
2024–25 Oklahoma 0–0 0–0
Oklahoma: 0–0 (–) 0–0 (–)
Total: 266–122 (.686)

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

References

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  1. ^ a b "Jennie Lillis, University of Iowa". WNBA. Archived from the original on May 14, 2004. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  2. ^ a b c "Jennis Lillis Baranczyk named head women's basketball coach". Des Moines, Iowa: Drake University. April 17, 2012. Archived from the original on January 21, 2017. Retrieved January 21, 2017.
  3. ^ a b c "Jennie Lillis". Iowa Hawkeyes. Archived from the original on August 16, 2004. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Jennie Baranczyk". Colorado Buffaloes. Archived from the original on September 13, 2011. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
  5. ^ a b c d "2016-17 Women's Basketball Coaching Staff: Jennie Baranczyk, Head Women's Basketball Coach". Drake Bulldogs. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
  6. ^ "Jennie Baranczyk". Marquette University Athletics. Archived from the original on June 8, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
  7. ^ Birch, Tommy (April 10, 2021). "Drake coach Jennie Baranczyk accepts head coaching job at Oklahoma". The Des Moines Register. Retrieved April 4, 2024.
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