Jim Foster (Former Women's BBall Head Coach- Hall of Famer)

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Jim Foster's life experiences have made him a better coach
Hall of Fame coach's career a story of passion

By Dan Fleser
Posted June 8, 2013

Photo by Saul Young, 2013 Knoxville News Sentinel // Buy this photo

SAUL YOUNG/NEWS SENTINEL Women?s Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Jim Foster on Friday. Foster is the new women?s basketball coach at Chattanooga after 11 season at Ohio State.

Jim Foster?s passion for coaching literally survived a trial by fire.

When he first broke into the business in the early 1970s, the occupation didn?t pay all the bills. To make ends meet, he wore many hats along with the whistle around his neck. One was managing a group home for dependent and neglected boys. But that job went up in smoke.

?One of the kids burned the house down,? Foster said. ?They neglected to tell me that one of the eight young men living with me was a pyromanic. That sort of slipped their mind.?

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Jim Foster
Women’s Basketball Coach 2002-13
Jim Foster coached 11 seasons at Ohio State from 2002-13. He put the women’s basketball program back on the map, making the NCAA Tournament in 10 of his 11 seasons. Foster and the Buckeyes also enjoyed a run of six consecutive Big Ten Championships and four Big Ten Tournament titles. His .772 winning percentage (279-82) is the highest of any women’s basketball coach in school history.

Foster helped develop some of the best players in the program’s history. Jessica Davenport (2004-07) was the program’s first three-time All-American. She scored 2,303 points and grabbed 1,094 career rebounds. Jantel Lavender was also a three-time All-American and became the first player, male or female, in the Power 5 conferences to be named conference player of the year four times. Samantha Prahalis was a four-time All-Big Ten point guard. She scored more than 2,000 career points and still holds the Big Ten record with 901 assists which is 11th in NCAA history.

Foster, a Pennsylvania native, also coached at Saint Joseph’s, Vanderbilt and Chattanooga where he amassed 903 career wins which currently ranks seventh in NCAA history. He is the only coach to take four different programs to the NCAA Tournament. Foster was elected to the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame as a member of the class of 2013 and in 2018, after 40 years on the bench, he announced his retirement.