JR Payne is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Coach who was born on May 27, 1977 in North Vancouver, Canada. The year 2009 was the time that JR Payne got her first head coaching gig in 2009, at Southern Utah. Over the course of five years, Payne led Southern Utah to a record winning season of 23, Big Sky Conference regular season champion, and her first postseason appearance in the history of the program during this year’s Women’s National Invitation Tournament.
On March 28, 2016, Payne became head coach at Colorado. The eighth head coach in program history, Payne replaced Linda Lappe, who was fired after only managing only a career 33-57 (.367) record in Pac-12 play. JR Payne inherited a program that only finished 7-23 (2-16 Pac-12) in Lappe’s final season.
JR Payne inherited a program that had a lack of player talent.
The Buffs were only 14-58 (.194) in the last four years of Linda Lappe’s coaching tenture in Pac-12 play, despite having the program’s All-Time assists leader in each year during that time frame.
Colorado finished the 2018-19 season with a 2-16 Pac-12 record.
In it 45 years history, it marked the fifth time that the Buffs failed to win at least three conference games.
Payne’s 2018-19 Colorado team began Pac-12 conference play 0-11, the worst start to conference play in program history.
The 102-43 loss at Oregon was the Buffs’ worst loss since 1984 and it was the 4th worst loss in program history.
As of 2005, Payne was appointed an assistant at Boise State under Gordy Presnell. In her time as an assistant, Boise State won Western Athletic Conference championships twice in her three seasons and advanced to an appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Boise State finished 24-8 twice in a row. This included an all-time record of 14-0 at home in 2007-08.
in 2000. Payne was the first female basketball coach in the NCAA Division I team at Gonzaga with Kelly Graves. The team saw improvement from just five wins in the year 2000-01 to 28 wins during the 2004-05 campaign, including an unbeaten performance in West Coast Conference play. Payne assisted in recruiting Guard Shannon Mathews, who would become the first All-American in the history of the program.
On April 6, 2014, Payne became head coach at Santa Clara. Payne was head coach at Santa Clara for two seasons. In the 2015–16 season, the Santa Clara Broncos made the WNIT returned to the postseason for the first time in ten years. Following Santa Clara’s exit from the WNIT, Payne was offered the Head Coach position at the University of Colorado-Boulder (Pac-12), The University of Arizona (Pac-12), and the University of New Mexico (Mountain West).
