Courtney Banghart is an Amherst, NH native, and the current Head Women’s Basketball Coach at Princeton Univsersity. She was a graduate of Dartmouth and a two- time Big Green women’s basketball MVP. She was a three- year starter on the women’s basketball team. She earned her first team- All-Ivy honors in 1999 and 2000. Banghart holds the school recronds for three-point baskets in a game, season, and career. In 1999 she won the Steitz Award as the top Division I three-point shooter in the country, when she lead the NCAA in three-point baskets per game (3.5). Banghart finished her career with an NCAA record 58-consecutive games with a made three-pointer. In 2004 she was inducted into the Dartmouth College Hall of Fame, and in 2006 into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame.
After college, Banghart worked at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA where she was the Athletics Director and the head women’s basketball and tennis coach. She returned to her alma mater to complete her master’s degree in writing and leadership in 2007. At that time, Banghart also served as assistant coach for four years for the Big Green women’s basketball team.
In 2007, Banghart became the head coach of the women’s basketball team at Princeton. She is the winningest coach in program history. Banghart has a 169-67 (0.716) overall record with a 92-17 (0.844) mark against Ivy League opponents. In the 2014- 2015 season, Princeton had a undefeated 30-0 regular season, which was the best in Ivy League history for men’s or women’s teams. The team also received their highest- ever ranking for an Ivy League program, climbing as high as 13 in the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches Polls.
In Banghart’s time at Princeton, she has earned numerous awards including, in 2015 the Naismith Coach of the Year, United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) Coach of the Year, ECAC Coach of the Year, and Ivy League Coach of the Year. She has also won numerous Ivy League Championships as both a head and assistant coach. She also won New Jersey Sports Writers Association Women's College Coach of the Year in 2010; USWBA Coach of the Year Watch List in 2012; College Sports Madness Preseason All-Mid Major Coach of the Year in 2012; College Sports Madness Preseason Ivy League Coach of the Year in 2012.
