Brown Women’s Basketball Alum Gottlieb Named Asst. Coach of Cleveland Cavaliers

Brown Women’s Basketball Alum Gottlieb Named Asst. Coach of Cleveland Cavaliers

Brown University women’s basketball alum Lindsay Gottlieb has been named an assistant coach for the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers.

She will join head coach John Beilen’s staff as the first women’s collegiate head coach recruited to an NBA staff.

“I am very thankful, proud and excited to be joining the Cavaliers as an Assistant Coach. After meeting with Koby Altman, Coach Beilein, and Coach Bickerstaff, I knew this was an organization I wanted to be a part of and a team I wanted to dedicate myself to. While this move provided a unique and special chance to move directly from Cal Berkeley and women’s college basketball to the NBA, it was really about being part of building and growing something special and adding value to a team and organization that is focused on doing things in a way that I believe strongly in," said Gottlieb in a statement to NBA.com. 

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Gottlieb at Brown

Gottlieb won Brown's Heart and Soul Award as a senior, while also gaining her start in collegiate coaching as a student assistant coach.

She moved on to assistant coaching positions at Syracuse (1999-2001), New Hampshire (2001-02), Richmond (2002-05), and Cal (2005-08) before earning her first collegiate head coaching position at UC Santa Barbara from 2008-11.

Gottlieb’s Career

Gottlieb has served as the head coach of the University of California, Berkeley women's basketball program for the last eight years from 2011-19, leading the Golden Bears to seven appearances in the NCAA tournament.

She guided Cal to the Final Four in 2013 and completed her tenure with the Golden Bears with a 179-89 record.

During the 2017-18 season, Gottlieb brought her Cal team to face Brown at the Pizzitola Sports Center on Nov. 19, 2017, marking the first time in program history that Brown hosted a Pac-12 opponent.

The No. 20 Golden Bears edged the host Bears, 89-79, but Brown set a program record with 16 made 3-pointers, and Shayna Mehta '19 set a single-game school record with nine 3-pointers.