Laura Beeman

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]

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]

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Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Hawaii Rainbow Wahine (Big West Conference) (2012–present)
2012–13	Hawai'i	17–14	13–5	T–2nd	WNIT First Round
2013–14	Hawai'i	17–14	10–6	3rd	WNIT First Round
2014–15	Hawai'i	23–9	14–2	1st	WNIT First Round
2015–16	Hawai'i	21–11	12–4	T–2nd	NCAA First Round
2016–17	Hawai'i	12–18	7–9	T–6th
2017–18	Hawai'i	12–18	5–11	8th
2018–19	Hawai'i	15–17	10–6	T–2nd	WNIT First Round
2019–20	Hawai'i	16–14	9–7	T–2nd
2020–21	Hawai'i	9–8	7–6	5th
2021–22	Hawai'i	20–10	13–3	1st	NCAA First Round
2022–23	Hawai'i	18–15	13–7	3rd	NCAA First Round
2023–24	Hawai'i	20–11	17–3	1st	WBIT First Round
2024–25	Hawai'i	22–10	16–4	1st	WBIT First Round
2025–26	Hawai'i	22–11	14–6	4th
Hawaii:		244–180 (.575)	160–79 (.669)
Total:		244–180 (.575)
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion

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