Bluder was named head coach at the University of Iowa in 2000 and retires as the all-time winningest coach in Big Ten history with an overall record of 528-254 and a Big Ten record of 262-145. Under her leadership, the Hawkeyes advanced to the last two National Championship Games and made 22 postseason appearances overall (18 NCAA and 4 WNIT), including 14 of the last 16 NCAA Tournaments. Bluder led the Hawkeyes to five Big Ten Tournament titles, and two shared Big Ten regular season championships.
Under her tutelage, Hawkeye players were named the National Player of the Year three times with two others named consensus All-Americans.
Three different players were named the Big Ten Player of the Year and also three different players recognized as Big Ten Freshman of the Year.
Sixty-five Hawkeyes earned All-Big Ten honors.
Seventeen former Hawkeyes went on to play professionally.
In the classroom, her student-athletes were named Academic All-Big Ten more than 150 times, while Ally Disterhoft (2016, 2017) and Caitlin Clark (2023, 2024) were both recognized as the Academic All-American of the Year.
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884-396 Overall Record
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528-254 Record at Iowa
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262-145 B1G Record at Iowa
It has been the honor of my career to be a part of the Iowa Hawkeye family, and to lead a women’s basketball program filled with so many talented and remarkable young women, who have gone on to do great things in their careers and, more importantly, in their lives.
I want to thank the incredible fans for believing in what we were doing and how we were doing it, creating the greatest home court advantage in all of women’s basketball.
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Concensus
All-Americans
Samantha Logic
2015
Megan Gustafson
2018, 2019
Kathleen Doyle
2020
Caitlin Clark
2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
