Lisa Fortier

Lisa Mispley Fortier (born April 5, 1981) is an American basketball coach, currently the head coach of the women's basketball team at Gonzaga University.

Fortier, born Lisa Mispley, is the oldest of three children to Bill and Tami Mispley.

Fortier played basketball at Placer High School before playing at both Butte Community College and California State University, Monterey Bay.

As a junior in 2002–03, Fortier averaged 12.1 points,.

4.1 rebounds, and 2.6 assists.

At Cal State, she earned honorable mention All Cal-Pac Conference honors as a junior and was named to the NAIA Academic All-America list in 2003.

As a senior in 2003–04, Fortier averaged 9.1 points, 3.7 rebounds, and 3.0 assists

She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cal State, Monterey Bay, in 2004 with a B.A. in human communication.

Prior to becoming head coach, she was director of basketball operations for the Zags from 2004 to 2006 and assistant coach from 2007 to 2014, where she focused on the team's defense.

In the WCC tournament, the Zags lost to the Santa Clara Broncos 59–58, their earliest tournament exit since the 2005–06 season.

After two years as director of operations at Gonzaga, where she earned her master's degree in Sport and Athletic Administration in 2006, Fortier was an assistant coach at Northern Colorado in the 2006–07 season, then an assistant at Gonzaga from 2007 to 2014.

It was the Zags first non-appearance in the WCC Tournament Final game since the 2006 season.

However, Gonzaga still received an #11 seed in the Spokane region, the second at-large bid in school history and the third in West Coast Conference play.

In the NCAA tournament, Fortier led the Zags to an 82–69 first round win over the George Washington Colonials and a 76–64 second round win over the Oregon State Beavers.

Both the first and second-round games were held at the Gill Coliseum in Corvallis.

In the next game, the Zags led the Tennessee Volunteers 57–40 before Tennessee went on a 23–6 run to end regulation and force the game into overtime.

The Zags season came to an end with a 73–69 overtime defeat to the Volunteers, in front of mostly Zags fans at the Spokane Arena.

The Zags received an at-large bid for the WNIT, their first since the 2007–08 season.

They hosted the UC-Riverside Highlanders; the Big West regular season champs at the McCarthey Athletic Center on March 17, with the Zags defeating the Highlanders 88–54.

The Zags next hosted the Utah Utes, losing to the Utes 92–77 to end their season at 19–14.

The Zags finished one game shy of playing against their former coach, Kelly Graves and his Oregon Ducks, when his Ducks won 84–59 on the same night the Zags lost to the Utes.

On April 14, 2014, Fortier was hired as Gonzaga women's basketball head coach, succeeding Kelly Graves, who accepted the head coaching position for Oregon women's basketball the week before.

Fortier picked up her first win as a head coach with a 75–65 over the Dayton Flyers women's basketball team at the Kennel on November 16, 2014.

The biggest highlight in non-conference was the Eastern Washington game at Reese Court on December 3, 2014, where Elle Tinkle (daughter of current Oregon State Beavers men's basketball coach Wayne Tinkle) shot the game winning jumper as time expired, where the Zags escaped with a 61–60 win.

The Zags finished non-conference play with a 7–4 record.

Fortier picked up her first conference win as a head coach with a 78–62 over Jeff Judkins' BYU Cougars women's basketball team at the McCarthey Athletic Center|Kennel on December 27, 2014.

The biggest conference game came against the San Francisco Dons on February 7, 2015, at the Kennel, where the Zags won 91–84 in a 4-overtime thriller.

The Zags clinched their 11th consecutive WCC regular-season crown on February 19, 2015, with an 80–72 win over Paul Thomas' Saint Mary's Gaels.

It also marked the first regular-season crown under Fortier's head coaching tenure.

Gonzaga finished West Coast Conference regular-season play with a 16–2 record with losses against Pacific at home and San Diego on the road.

In the year-end conference tournament, the Zags defeated the Loyola Marymount Lions 70–50 before losing to the Brigham Young Cougars 61–55.

On April 6, 2015, it was announced that she was named the Maggie Dixon Award Rookie Coach of the Year.

On June 18, 2015, the WBCA announced that Fortier would serve as part of the board of directors for the West region.

Fortier's Zags finished non-conference play with an 8–4 record.

Their most significant non-conference game was against Wyoming, where the Zags won 61–57 in overtime.

The Zags finished 10–8 in West Coast Conference play, finishing fifth place, ending Gonzaga's 11 consecutive West Coast Conference regular season titles, where the BYU Cougars women's basketball team won the outright title.

Gonzaga earned its biggest conference win against #22 BYU in front of a sold-out crowd of 6,000 at the McCarthey Athletic Center, where the Zags outscored BYU 33–13 in the fourth quarter to defeat the WCC regular season champs 73–55 on "Senior Day".

The Zags finished non-conference play for the 2016–17 season with a 9–2 record, including upset victories over #11 ranked Stanford at their homecourt on November 18 and over Northwestern at the McCarthey Athletic Center on December 19.

The Zags started the WCC conference schedule with losses to Pepperdine in Malibu and Pacific at home.

After losing their first two conference games, the Zags finished conference play winning 14 of the last 16 games, and they were crowned with the WCC regular season title by defeating the San Diego Toreros 62–57 on "Senior Night" in front of a sellout crowd of 6,000 at McCarthey Athletic Center.