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| coaching_records = | BASKHOF_year = 2006 | medaltemplates = }} Luigi "Geno" Auriemma (born March 23, 1954)〔 is an Italian-born American college basketball coach and the head coach of the University of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team. He has led UConn to ten NCAA Division I national championships, a feat only matched by John Wooden in the sport of basketball, and has won six national Naismith College Coach of the Year awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url =http://www.naismithawards.com/PressBox/PressReleases/PressReleaseApril92008/tabid/83/Default.aspx )〕 Auriemma was also the head coach of the United States women's national basketball team from 2009 to 2014, during which time his teams won the 2010 and 2014 World Championships, and the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.usabasketball.com/bios/auriemma_geno.html )〕 He emigrated with his family from Montella in southern Italy to Norristown, Pennsylvania, when he was seven years old, and spent the rest of his childhood there.〔Auriemma, MacMullan p 1〕 After graduating from West Chester University of Pennsylvania in 1977, Auriemma was hired as an assistant coach〔Auriemma, MacMullan p 205〕 at Saint Joseph's University, where he worked in 1978 and 1979. He then took a two-year absence from college basketball, serving as an assistant coach at his former high school, Bishop Kenrick,〔 before assuming an assistant coaching position with the University of Virginia Cavaliers in 1981. Auriemma became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994 at the age of 40,〔(Connecticut Huskies fans asked to recite Pledge of Allegiance before games - ESPN )〕 noting in his autobiography that he finally decided to naturalize when his UConn team was slated to tour Italy that summer and he was concerned about potential problems, as he had never done any required national service in his birth country.〔Auriemma, MacMullan p 151〕 For many years, Auriemma and his wife, Kathy, maintained a home in Avalon, New Jersey, to be near their parents in the Philadelphia area.〔Giuca, Linda. ("CELEBRITY COOKIE COUNTDOWN: Geno Auriemma" ), ''Hartford Courant''. Accessed March 1, 2011. "The Auriemmas spent Thanksgiving at their home in Avalon, N.J., close to the Philadelphia area where the couple's respective families live."〕 ==UConn career== Prior to Auriemma's arrival at Storrs in 1985, the Huskies Women's Basketball team had posted just one winning season in its history. The decision to hire Auriemma as their new coach was part of UConn's commitment to better fund women's sports.〔Grundy p 239〕 Auriemma was the last of a series of interviews conducted by the search staff. Most of the other candidates were highly qualified coaches, and most were female. One of those included in the interview process was Chris Dailey, who would become Auriemma's assistant and is currently the associate head coach at UConn. Dailey was identified as the candidate likely to receive an offer if Auriemma turned down the offer.〔Karmel p 21–23〕 Connecticut quickly rose to prominence after Auriemma was hired in August 1985. After finishing 12–15 in Auriemma's first season, his only losing season, Connecticut has finished above .500 for 28 consecutive seasons, including five undefeated seasons (1994–95, 2001–02, 2008–09, 2009–10 and 2013–14) and two NCAA record streaks of 90 and 70 consecutive wins.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url =http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/w_basketball_RB/2009/D1.pdf )〕 On December 21, 2010, Auriemma led UConn to its 89th consecutive victory, one more than the all-time NCAA men's wins record of 88 held by UCLA; the streak ended at 90 wins. At the end of the 2014–15 season, Auriemma's record as a head coach was 917–134, for an 87.3 winning percentage. That winning percentage is the highest among Division I active coaches.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url =http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/w_basketball_RB/reports/Coaching.pdf )〕 His career in Storrs also includes 19 seasons with 30 or more wins.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url =http://www.uconnhuskies.com/SPORTS/WBasketball/Coaching/bkwcoachbio.html ) 〕 UConn has won ten national championships under Auriemma (1995, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2015)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url =http://www.ncaa.com/history/w-basketball-d1.html )〕 and made the Final Four 16 times〔 (1991, 1995, 1996, 2000–2004, 2008–2015). Auriemma has also guided UConn to 20 Conference regular season titles and 19 Conference Tournament titles. The team has been especially successful on its home court in the Harry A. Gampel Pavilion on the UConn campus in Storrs, Connecticut, and in the larger XL Center in Hartford; they tied an NCAA women's basketball record with 69 consecutive home wins between 2000 and 2003. That record was broken in 2011. The last home loss was to Villanova in the game that ended their 70-game winning streak. Moreover, between Auriemma's arrival and the close of the 2005 season, UConn won 295 games versus just 31 losses. The team has set Big East Conference records for both single-game and season-long attendance. Auriemma is also known for cultivating individual players, and the 12 multiple-All-America players — Rebecca Lobo, Jennifer Rizzotti, Kara Wolters, Nykesha Sales, Svetlana Abrosimova, Sue Bird, Swin Cash, Diana Taurasi, Tina Charles, Maya Moore, Stefanie Dolson, and Bria Hartley — whom Auriemma has coached have combined to win eight Naismith College Player of the Year awards, seven Wade Trophies, and nine NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player awards. (The UConn athletics website also notes that, through 2006–07, every recruited freshman who has finished her eligibility at Storrs has graduated with a degree.) The rivalry between the Huskies and the University of Tennessee Lady Vols extended to Auriemma's relationship with since-retired Volunteers counterpart Pat Summitt. The two, through print and broadcast media, were often at odds. At the end of the 2009–10 season, Auriemma had slightly surpassed Summitt among active Division I coaches for career winning percentage, with Auriemma at 85.8 and Summitt at 84.1. Summitt declined to continue the yearly game in June, 2007, to the disappointment of many women's college basketball fans. Rumors of tension between Auriemma and men's basketball coach Jim Calhoun were widely circulated, but the two apparently reconciled after the teams won national championships on consecutive nights in 2004. His arch rival now is Muffet McGraw, head coach of Notre Dame, who is 5-5 the last ten games played vs UCONN. Since achieving its first #1 ranking in the 1994–95 season, UConn under Auriemma is 186-10 when playing as the nation's #1 team. At the end of the 2009–10 season, he had a record of 127-52 against top 25 opponents and a 57-35 record against top 10 opponents. He won his 600th game on New Year's Eve 2006, accomplishing the feat in 716 games, tying him with Phillip Kahler for the fastest women's basketball coach to reach that milestone. Auriemma won his 700th game on November 27, 2009 in 822 total games, becoming the fastest head coach to that milestone in the history of college basketball at any level, men or women. He is now one of eight active women's college basketball coaches to have 700 or more wins.〔 Auriemma became the sixth coach in women's basketball history to reach 800 career victories on March 6, 2012, also reaching 800 career wins faster than any coach in the history of college basketball men or women at any division level in just 928 career games. On February 3, 2015, Coach Auriemma notched his 900th victory in only 1,034 games, reaching this milestone also faster than any college coach in history. Auriemma was a member of the inaugural class (2006) of inductees to the University of Connecticut women's basketball "Huskies of Honor" recognition program.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Women's Basketball 1995 National Championship Team to be Recognized as "Huskies of Honor" )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geno Auriemma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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