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Van Chancellor won the first three Coach of the Year awards.

The Women's National Basketball Association's Coach of the Year is an annual Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) award given since the league's inaugural season. The winner is selected at the end of regular season by a panel of sportswriters from the United States, each of whom casts a vote for first, second and third place selections. Each first-place vote is worth five points; each second-place vote is worth three points; and each third-place vote is worth one point. The person with the highest point total, regardless of the number of first-place votes, wins the award.

The only coaches to win the award and later proceed to win the WNBA Finals are Van Chancellor (1997-1999), Bill Laimbeer (2003), and John Whisenant (2005).

[edit] Coach of the Year

Year	Coach	Team	Record
1997	Van Chancellor	Houston Comets	18-10
1998	Van Chancellor (2)	Houston Comets	27-3
1999	Van Chancellor (3)	Houston Comets	26-6
2000	Michael Cooper	Los Angeles Sparks	28-4
2001	Dan Hughes	Cleveland Rockers	22-10
2002	Marianne Stanley	Washington Mystics	17-15
2003	Bill Laimbeer	Detroit Shock	25-9
2004	Suzie McConnell Serio	Minnesota Lynx	18-16
2005	John Whisenant	Sacramento Monarchs	25-9
2006	Mike Thibault	Connecticut Sun	26-8
2007	Dan Hughes (2)	San Antonio Silver Stars	20-14
2008	Mike Thibault (2)	Connecticut Sun	21-13
2009	Marynell Meadors	Atlanta Dream	18-16

[edit] References

"WNBA Coach of the Year". http://www.wnba.com/history/coach_year.html. Retrieved January 19 2009.
"Thibault to be named 2008 WNBA Coach of the Year". http://www.wnba.com/news/awards08_coach.html. Retrieved September 20 2008.