Jennie Baranczyk just wrapped up her third year as the head coach of the Oklahoma women’s basketball team. In just three seasons as a Sooner, Coach Baranczyk has continued to elevate Oklahoma on to the national stage.

She has led the Sooners to back-to-back Big 12 championships, OU’s first back-to-back titles in 15 years. Her teams have made three straight NCAA tournaments, advancing to the second round each year.

As Oklahoma’s head coach, she has developed four All-Americans and 13 Big 12 honorees. Additionally, two of her student-athletes have gone on to earn spots in the prestigious “So You Want to Be a Coach” program hosted by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association, which selects a limited number of graduating seniors who aspire to be the next great leaders in the game.

She was recognized as the 2024 Big 12 Coach of the Year and is a back-to-back-to-back national Coach of the Year finalist.

A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Baranczyk spent nine years as the head coach at Drake before coming to Oklahoma in 2021. Baranczyk earned a bachelor's degree in communication studies from Iowa in 2004 and a master's degree in counseling and student development from Kansas State in 2006. She was a three-time All-Big Ten selection while playing for the Hawkeyes and the recipient of the 2004 Big Ten Conference's Medal of Honor, the award given annually to a student in each university's graduating class who demonstrated proficiency in scholarship and athletics.

Her and her husband, Scott, have a son, Eli, and two daughters, Jordi and Hope.