Laura Beeman Explained

Laura Beeman
Current Title:Head coach
Current Team:Hawaii
Current Conference:Big West
Birth Date:16 April 1968
Birth Place:San Bernardino, California, U.S.
Player Years1:1987–1988
Player Team1:UC Riverside
Player Years2:1989–1991
Player Team2:Cal State San Bernardino
Player Positions:Guard
Coach Years1:1992–1994
Coach Team1:Redlands (asst.)
Coach Years2:1994–1995
Coach Team2:Mt. San Antonio (asst.)
Coach Years3:1995–2010
Coach Team3:Mt. San Antonio
Coach Years4:2008–2009
Coach Team4:Los Angeles Sparks (asst.)
Coach Years5:2010–2012
Coach Team5:USC (asst.)
Coach Years6:2012–present
Coach Team6:Hawaii
Overall Record: (college)
(junior college)
Tournament Record:0–3 (NCAA)
0–4 (WNIT)
0-1 (WBIT)
Championships:
Awards:

Laura Lynne Beeman (born April 16, 1968) is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head women's basketball coach at the University of Hawaii.

Early life and education

Born and raised in San Bernardino, California, Beeman attended San Gorgonio High School in ninth grade before transferring to San Bernardino High School and graduating in 1986.[1] She redshirted a year due to a knee injury,[2] then played 24 games for then-Division II UC Riverside in the 1987–88 season under coach Nancy Simpson. Beeman averaged 2.1 points and 1.2 rebounds.[3]

Beeman then transferred to then-Division III Cal State San Bernardino and played from 1989 to 1991. As a sophomore in 1989–90, Beeman averaged 7.3 points and 3.0 rebounds and helped Cal State San Bernardino to a 24–4 season and a berth in the NCAA Tournament.[2] [4] In 1990–91, her junior year, Beeman averaged 6.5 points and 3.7 rebounds.[5] Beeman left the team after that season and graduated with a degree in business marketing in 1992.[2] [6]

Coaching career

Also enrolling as a graduate student, Beeman became a women's basketball assistant coach at the University of Redlands in 1992. She completed her M.Ed. in counseling in 1994.[6]

At the junior college level, Beeman became a women's basketball assistant coach at Mt. San Antonio College in 1994.[2] She also enrolled at Azusa Pacific University that year and earned a master's degree in physical education in 1996.[6] Beeman also was promoted to head coach at Mt. San Antonio in 1995.[2] At Mt. San Antonio, Beeman led the program to four CCCAA titles (2004, 2006, 2007, 2008), ten South Coast Conference titles, and a 390–110 record in 15 seasons from 1995 to 2010.[6] [7]

Beeman was an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA under Michael Cooper in the 2008 and 2009 seasons. From 2010 to 2012, Beeman was an assistant coach at USC, again under Cooper.[8]

In 2012, the University of Hawaii at Manoa hired Beeman as head coach for Hawaii Rainbow Wahine basketball. In eleven seasons, Beeman led Hawai'i to four WNIT appearances (2013, 2014, 2015, 2019) and three NCAA tournament appearances (2016, 2022, 2023). Hawaii won the Big West Conference regular season title in 2015, 2022 and 2024 and Big West tournament in 2016, 2022 and 2023.[6] [9]

Head coaching record

NCAA

Notes and References

  1. http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/HELMS/Basketball/HelmsBasketballAnnual1986.pdf Chino High School's Candida Echeverria named player of year in 2-A Div. basketball for '86
  2. Web site: Beeman builds a winner at Mt. SAC. Gardner, Michelle. Inside Socal. Los Angeles News Group. December 14, 2007. June 16, 2016.
  3. http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/statsPDFArchive/WBB2/Women's%20Basketball_Women's_Division%20II_1988_111_University%20of%20California,%20Riverside.pdf Final 1988 Women's Basketball Statistics Report: UC Riverside
  4. http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/statsPDFArchive/WBB2/Women's%20Basketball_Women's_Division%20III_1990_93_California%20State%20University,%20San%20Bernardino.pdf Final 1990 Division III Women's Basketball Statistics Report: Cal State San Bernardino
  5. http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/statsPDFArchive/WBB2/Women's%20Basketball_Women's_Division%20III_1991_93_California%20State%20University,%20San%20Bernardino.pdf Final 1991 Division III Women's Basketball Statistics Report: Cal State San Bernardino
  6. Web site: Laura Beeman . University of Hawaii Athletics . 2016-06-15.
  7. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20100609112001/http://athletics.mtsac.edu/staff/lbeeman.htm. June 9, 2010. Laura Beeman. Mt. San Antonio College. October 9, 2023. dead.
  8. Web site: Laura Beeman. USC Athletics. October 9, 2023. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131126093142/http://www.usctrojans.com/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/laura_beeman_670545.html. November 26, 2013.
  9. Web site: 2015-2016 Women's Basketball Schedule. Hawaii Athletics. June 16, 2016.