WBCA National Coach of the Year Award


The United States Marine Corps/WBCA National Coach of the Year is an award given by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association to best women's basketball Head Coaches in college and high schools since 1983. From 2014, the award is named "The Pat Summitt Trophy" in honor of the legendary University of Tennessee Lady Vols head coach. The WBCA presents an award to the National Coach of the year in each of six divisions:
is the recipient of more WBCA awards with 7, all of them while coaching the University of Connecticut.
Sylvia Hatchell is the only coach to receive the award in different categories: NAIA in 1986 with Francis Marion College and NCAA Division I in 2006 with the University of North Carolina.
Besides Hatchell, other two coaches have received the award with different schools: Jorja Hoehn with Central Missouri State University and University of California-Davis, and Michael Landers with Trinity Valley Community College and Baton Rouge Community College.