Women's Basketball
- Title:
- Associate Head Coach
- Email:
- klange@sports.uga.edu
- Phone:
- 706-542-1541
Since being named Georgia's associate head coach in 2015, Karen Lange's ability to teach, motivate and challenge student-athletes has been apparent during her first six seasons in Athens.
Lange plays a crucial role in developing Georgia's guards - a group that has finished near the top of the SEC in assists and among the league's best in assist-to-turnover ratio in each of the last six years.
Among other highlights, her success has resulted in three NCAA tournament berths, a second-place finish in the 2017-18 SEC standings and a spot in the 2021 SEC Tournament finals.
Last year, Lange and the Lady Bulldogs finished with a 21-7 record on their way to earning a No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament.
The 2017-18 squad finished the year with a 26-7 record, resulting in the most wins for a Georgia team in over a decade and the second-biggest single-season turnaround in program history.
She has taken over as the interim head coach during each of Joni Taylor's pregnancies. Under her guidance, the Lady Bulldogs have posted a 7-3 record when she served as interim.
Lange came to Georgia following four seasons at Charlotte, including two years as associate head coach. In addition, she served as an assistant coach at Virginia Tech for seven seasons from 1997-2004 and at Kansas for six seasons from 2004-10. Lange was head coach at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas, during the 2010-11 campaign.
Lange was a standout point guard at Iowa from 1992-96 as the former Karen Clayton.
As both a player and a coach, her teams have been a mainstay in postseason. That ledger includes Iowa's first trip to the Final Four in 1993, Virginia Tech's first NCAA "Sweet 16" appearance in 1999, Kansas' runner-up finish in the 2009 WNIT and Charlotte's advancement to the WNIT "Sweet 16" in 2013.
Lange has enjoyed stellar success recruiting and developing perimeter players throughout her coaching tenure. She brought consensus high school All-Americans such as Dawn Chriss and Angel Goodrich to Virginia Tech and Kansas, respectively. Such talent continued to blossom under Lange's tutelage. Her work with guards has produced three All-Americans (Lisa Witherspoon at Virginia Tech and Goodrich and Danielle McCray at Kansas), one freshman All-American (Carrie Mason at Virginia Tech), five conference end-of-season award winners, 19 all-conference honorees and three future WNBA players (Kerri Gardin at Virginia Tech and Goodrich and McCray at Kansas).
As a player, Lange was a member of Iowa teams that reached three NCAA Tournaments, following the 1993 Final Four appearance with trips to the 1994 second round and 1996 "Sweet 16." She also helped Iowa capture Big Ten Championships in 1993 and 1996.
Lange graduated from Iowa with honors in 1996, receiving her bachelor's degree in exercise science. She and her husband Cory have two children -- daughter Ashlyn and son Ty.
