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{{Short description|American college basketball coach and former player}}
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| name = Amanda Butler
| image = File:Amanda Butler.jpg
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| caption = Butler in 2018
| current_title = [[Assistant Coach]]
| current_team = [[Louisville Cardinals women's basketball|Louisville]]
| current_conference = [[Atlantic Coast Conference|ACC]]
| current_record = 
| contract = 
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1972|3|6|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Mt. Juliet, Tennessee]]
| death_date = 
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| alma_mater = 
| player_years1 = 1990–1994
| player_team1 = [[Florida Gators women's basketball|Florida]]
| player_positions = [[Guard (basketball)|Guard]]
| coach_years1 = 1994–1997
| coach_team1 = [[Florida Gators women's basketball|Florida]] (Asst.)
| coach_years2 = 1997–2001
| coach_team2 = Austin Peay (Asst.)
| coach_years3 = 2001–2003
| coach_team3 = [[North Carolina-Charlotte 49ers women's basketball|Charlotte]] (Asst.)
| coach_years4 = 2003–2005
| coach_team4 = Charlotte (Assoc. HC)
| coach_years5 = 2005–2007
| coach_team5 = Charlotte
| coach_years6 = 2007–2017
| coach_team6 = Florida
| coach_years7 = 2018–2024
| coach_team7 = [[Clemson Tigers women's basketball|Clemson]]
| coach_years8 = 2024–present
| coach_team8 = [[Louisville Cardinals women's basketball|Louisville]] (Asst.)
| overall_record = {{Winning percentage|record=y|311|264}}
| bowl_record = 
| tournament_record = 
| championships = [[Atlantic 10 Conference|Atlantic 10]] regular season (2006)
| awards = Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year (2006) <br> [[Atlantic Coast Conference|ACC]] Coach of the Year (2019)
| coaching_records = 
| medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Women's basketball}}
{{MedalSport | Assistant Coach for {{USA}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[FIBA Under-19 World Championship]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[USA Women's U18 and U19 teams|2009 Bangkok]] | Team Competition}}
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'''Amanda Kay Butler''' (born March 6, 1972)<ref name="NCAA Coaches"/> is an American [[college basketball]] coach and former player. In 2018, Butler was hired as the head coach of the [[Clemson Tigers women's basketball]] team. Prior to that, she was the head coach for the [[Florida Gators women's basketball]] team and the [[Charlotte 49ers women's basketball]] team.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/18838776/florida-gators-fire-women-hoops-coach-amanda-butler|title=Florida fires women's hoops coach Butler|work=ESPN.com|access-date=2017-03-07}}</ref>

==Career==
Amanda Butler was born in [[Mt. Juliet, Tennessee]], in 1972. She attended Mt. Juliet High School, graduating in 1990.<ref name=ufprofile>GatorZone.com, Women's Basketball, Coaching & Support Staff, [http://web.gatorzone.com/basketball/women/staff/butler  Amanda Butler] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110902021958/http://web.gatorzone.com/basketball/women/staff/butler |date=2011-09-02 }}.  Retrieved June 7, 2011.</ref>  She was recruited to play for the University of Florida by the Gators' head coach, [[Carol Ross]], and started at [[guard (basketball)|guard]] for four years.  After finishing her playing career in 1994, she transitioned into coaching.  Her first coaching job was as an assistant coach at Florida, where she continued her education with a Master of Science degree in Exercise and Sport Science, in 1997.  After leaving her job with Florida in 1997, she coached at [[Austin Peay State University|Austin Peay]] from 1997 to 2001, and served as the associate head coach for former Charlotte head coach [[Katie Meier]] from 2001 to 2005.

Butler became the sixth head coach of the [[University of North Carolina at Charlotte|Charlotte 49ers]] women's basketball program on April 19, 2005.  She was named Atlantic 10 Conference Coach of the Year after twenty wins and a share of the regular season championship in her first year as coach.<ref name="COY"/>

After [[Carolyn Peck]] was released as the Gators head coach following the 2006–07 season, Butler returned to her [[alma mater]] as the new head coach of the Gators women's basketball program on April 13, 2007. She was fired on March 6, 2017, her 45th birthday.

Butler then was hired on as head coach at [[Clemson Tigers women's basketball|Clemson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clemsontigers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=28500&ATCLID=211708089|title=Clemson To Change Leadership of Women's Basketball|website=clemsontigers.com|publisher=Clemson University|date=March 27, 2018|accessdate=March 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328010007/http://www.clemsontigers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=28500&ATCLID=211708089|archive-date=March 28, 2018|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Butler led an incredible turnaround in her first year at Clemson.  In their previous season, the Tigers finished 11–19 and 1–15 in ACC play.  Butler led the team to a 9–7 ACC record and was voted the ACC Coach of the Year in 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theacc.com/news/2019/3/6/womens-basketball-louisvilles-durr-repeats-as-acc-womens-player-of-the-year.aspx|title=Louisville's Durr Repeats as ACC Women's Player of the Year|website=theacc.com|publisher=Atlantic Coast Conference|date=March 6, 2019|accessdate=March 6, 2019}}</ref> The Tigers turnaround during Butler's first season marked the largest turnaround under a first-year head coach in ACC history. The turn around did not extend into the 2019–20 season as Clemson finished 8–23 overall and 3–15 in conference play. In the following years, Butler was unable to replicate her success from the first season as the Tigers never finished higher than tenth in the conference. Her second best season came in 2022–23 as the Tigers finished 19–16 overall, 7–11 in ACC play, and made it to the Super 16 of the WNIT. After the 2023–24 season, where the Tigers finished 12–19 overall and 5–13 in the ACC, Butler was fired as head coach.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/amanda-butler-clemson-women-basketball-151357829.html|title=Amanda Butler out as Clemson women’s basketball coach|website=sports.yahoo.com|publisher=[[Yahoo Sports]]|first=Steve|last=Holley|date=March 12, 2024|access-date=March 12, 2024}}</ref>

On June 25, 2024, Butler was hired as an assistant coach to join [[Jeff Walz]]'s staff at [[Louisville Cardinals women's basketball|Louisville]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Women’s Basketball Welcomes Former Clemson Head Coach Amanda Butler to Coaching Staff |url=https://gocards.com/news/2024/6/25/womens-basketball-womens-basketball-welcomes-former-clemson-head-coach-amanda-butler-to-coaching-staff |access-date=2024-09-07 |website=University of Louisville Athletics |language=en}}</ref>

==USA Basketball==

In 2009, Butler served as an assistant coach to the [[USA Women's U18 and U19 teams|U19 team]], and competed in the [[FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women|FIBA Women's U19 World Championship]]. The USA lost the opening round game against Spain 90–86, but then went on to win their next eight games. In the quarterfinals, the USA team faced France, which held an eight-point lead late in the second half, but the USA team took back the lead and won by eleven to advance to the semifinals. After beating Canada in the semifinals, they had a rematch against Spain, for the championship. This time the USA jumped out to an early lead, with a score of 33–16 at the end of the first quarter. The USA went on to win 87–71 to win the gold medal.<ref name="U19 2009"/>

== Head coaching record ==

{{CBB Yearly Record Start
|type           = coach
|conference     =
|postseason     =
|poll           = no
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead|
|name           = [[Charlotte 49ers women's basketball|Charlotte 49ers]]
|startyear      = 2005
|conference     = [[Atlantic 10 Conference]]
|endyear        = 2007
|}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | season       = 2005–06
 | name         = Charlotte
 | overall      = 21–9
 | conference   = 13–3
 | confstanding = T–1st
 | postseason   = WNIT Second round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = 2006–07
 | name         = Charlotte
 | overall      = 19–13
 | conference   = 9–5
 | confstanding = T–4th
 | postseason   = [[2007 Women's National Invitation Tournament|WNIT Second round]] 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name         = Charlotte
 | overall      = 40–22 ({{Winning percentage|40|22}})
 | confrecord   = 22–8 ({{Winning percentage|22|8}})
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
|name           = [[Florida Gators women's basketball|Florida Gators]]
|startyear      = 2007
|conference     = [[Southeastern Conference]]
|endyear        = 2017
|}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = 2007–08
 | name         = Florida
 | overall      = 19–14
 | conference   = 6–8
 | confstanding = T–7th
 | postseason   = [[2008 Women's National Invitation Tournament|WNIT Third round]] 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = 2008–09
 | name         = Florida
 | overall      = 24–8
 | conference   = 9–5
 | confstanding = T–4th
 | postseason   = [[2009 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament|NCAA second round]] 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = [[2009–10 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2009–10]]
 | name         = [[2009–10 Florida Gators women's basketball team|Florida]]
 | overall      = 15–17
 | conference   = 7–9
 | confstanding = T–7th
 | postseason   = [[2010 Women's National Invitation Tournament|WNIT Second round]] 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = [[2010–11 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2010–11]]
 | name         = Florida
 | overall      = 20–15
 | conference   = 7–9
 | confstanding = 8th
 | postseason   = [[2011 Women's National Invitation Tournament|WNIT Third round]] 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = [[2011–12 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2011–12]]
 | name         = Florida
 | overall      = 20–13
 | conference   = 8–8
 | confstanding = 8th
 | postseason   = [[2012 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament|NCAA second round]] 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = [[2012–13 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2012–13]]
 | name         = [[2012–13 Florida Gators women's basketball team|Florida]]
 | overall      = 22–15
 | conference   = 6–10
 | confstanding = T–8th
 | postseason   = [[2013 Women's National Invitation Tournament|WNIT Semifinals]] 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = [[2013–14 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2013–14]]
 | name         = [[2013–14 Florida Gators women's basketball team|Florida]]
 | overall      = 20–13
 | conference   = 8–8
 | confstanding = 5th
 | postseason   = [[2014 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament|NCAA second round]] 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = [[2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2014–15]]
 | name         = [[2014–15 Florida Gators women's basketball team|Florida]]
 | overall      = 13–17
 | conference   = 5–11
 | confstanding = T–11th
 | postseason   = 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = [[2015–16 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2015–16]]
 | name         = [[2015–16 Florida Gators women's basketball team|Florida]]
 | overall      = 22–9
 | conference   = 10–6
 | confstanding = T–4th
 | postseason   = [[2016 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament|NCAA first round]]
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = [[2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2016–17]]
 | name         = [[2016–17 Florida Gators women's basketball team|Florida]]
 | overall      = 15–16
 | conference   = 5–11
 | confstanding = T–11th
 | postseason   = 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name         = Florida
 | overall      = 190–136 ({{Winning percentage|190|137}})
 | confrecord   = 71–85 ({{Winning percentage|71|85}})
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
|name           =[[Clemson Tigers women's basketball|Clemson Tigers]]
|startyear      = 2018
|conference     = [[Atlantic Coast Conference]]
|endyear        = 2024
|}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = [[2018–19 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2018–19]]
 | name         = [[2018–19 Clemson Tigers women's basketball team|Clemson]]
 | overall      = 20–13
 | conference   = 9–7
 | confstanding = 7th
 | postseason   = [[2019 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament|NCAA second round]]
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = [[2019–20 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2019–20]]
 | name         = [[2019–20 Clemson Tigers women's basketball team|Clemson]]
 | overall      = 8–23
 | conference   = 3–15
 | confstanding = 14th
 | postseason   = 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = [[2020–21 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2020–21]]
 | name         = [[2020–21 Clemson Tigers women's basketball team|Clemson]]
 | overall      = 12–14
 | conference   = 5–12 
 | confstanding = 11th
 | postseason   = [[2021 Women's National Invitation Tournament|WNIT Second round]]
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = [[2021–22 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2021–22]]
 | name         = [[2021–22 Clemson Tigers women's basketball team|Clemson]]
 | overall      = 10–21
 | conference   = 3–15
 | confstanding = 13th
 | postseason   = 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = [[2022–23 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2022–23]]
 | name         = [[2022–23 Clemson Tigers women's basketball team|Clemson]]
 | overall      = 19–16
 | conference   = 7–11
 | confstanding = 10th
 | postseason   = [[2023 Women's National Invitation Tournament|WNIT Super 16]]
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = [[2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2023–24]]
 | name         = [[2023–24 Clemson Tigers women's basketball team|Clemson]]
 | overall      = 12–19
 | conference   = 5–13
 | confstanding = T–12th
 | postseason   = 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name= Clemson
 | overall= {{Winning percentage|record=y|81|106}}
 | confrecord= {{Winning percentage|record=y|32|73}}
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record End
|overall=  {{Winning percentage|record=y|311|264}}
}}

==Career statistics==
{{WNBA player statistics legend}}

=== College ===
{{WNBA player statistics start}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1990–91
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Florida Gators women's basketball|Florida]]
|28||-||-||'''41.2'''||'''31.8'''||56.4||1.8||'''5.5'''||'''1.4'''||0.0||-||			3.5	
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1991–92
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Florida Gators women's basketball|Florida]]
|28||-||-||30.4||25.6||64.3||'''2.6'''||3.7||1.0||'''0.1'''||-||			4.3	
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1992–93
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Florida Gators women's basketball|Florida]]
|'''29'''||-||-||31.0||25.0||64.7||2.0||2.2||0.9||'''0.1'''||-||			5.0	
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1993–94
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Florida Gators women's basketball|Florida]]
|'''29'''||-||-||33.7||28.9||'''67.4'''||'''2.6'''||2.8||1.2||'''0.1'''||-||			'''9.5'''
|-
| style="text-align:center;" colspan=2 | '''Career'''
|114||-||-||33.3||27.7||64.3||2.2||3.5||1.1||0.1||-||			5.6	
|- class="sortbottom"
|style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from [[Sports-Reference]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/Amanda-Butler-1.html|title=Amanda Butler College Stats|publisher=[[Sports-Reference]]|accessdate=July 7, 2024}}</ref>
{{s-end}}

== See also ==

{{Portal|Biography}}
* [[Florida Gators]]
* [[History of the University of Florida]]
* [[List of University of Florida alumni]]
* [[University of Florida Athletic Association|University Athletic Association]]
{{clear}}

== References ==

{{Reflist|refs=

<ref name="NCAA Coaches">{{cite web|last1=|first1=|title=Women's Basketball Coaches Career|date=|url=http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/careersearch|website=NCAA|accessdate=30 Sep 2015}}</ref>

<ref name="COY">{{cite web|last=|first=|date=April 13, 2007|title=Amanda Butler Resigns As Women's Basketball Coach|url=http://www.charlotte49ers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=23200&ATCLID=204855596|work=UNC Charlotte|publisher=|accessdate=May 14, 2013}}</ref>

<ref name="U19 2009">{{cite web|title=SEVENTH FIBA WOMEN'S U19 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP -- 2009 |url=http://www.usabasketball.com/womens/u19/wu19_2009.html |publisher=USA Basketball |accessdate=May 15, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524130102/http://www.usabasketball.com/womens/u19/wu19_2009.html |archivedate=May 24, 2013 }}</ref>

}}

== External links ==
* [https://floridagators.com/sports/womens-basketball Gators women's basketball]

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