Basketball

Georgetown head girls basketball coach Rhonda Farney earns national coaching award

Georgetown head coach Rhonda Farney gives instruction from the bench during a Class 5A Division I state semifinal on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025 at Lehman High School in Kyle, Texas. (Michael Adams/Austin Sports Journal)

By Michael Adams
Austin Sports Journal

Longtime girls basketball coach Rhonda Farney can add another award to her legendary coaching career.

The Georgetown girls basketball was selected as the 2025 Pat Summit national high school coach of the year by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA), the organization announced Tuesday. She also won the award in 2017.

Georgetown reached the Class 5A Division I semifinals this season and finished with a 33-4 record. It was the Lady Eagles’ 12th appearance in the UIL basketball state tournament.

Farney is the winningest active girls basketball coach in the nation with a record of 1,270-354 (.780 winning percentage). She is sixth all-time, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS).

In 35 years at Georgetown High School, her teams have posted 35 consecutive 20-win seasons and 34 straight berths in the UIL playoffs. She has won one state championship with the Lady Eagles.

Farney has a long list of awards. She was inducted into the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2023 and was the Texas High School Coaches Association female state coach of the year in 2022.