AP FILE PHOTO - Iowa women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder waves to fans after a game against Michigan on Feb. 27, 2022, at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City. Iowa won 104-80, giving the Hawkeyes a share of the Big Ten Conference championship.

IOWA CITY — Outgoing University of Iowa athletic director Gary Barta announced on Friday that he has extended head women’s basektball coach Lisa Bluder’s contract through June 2029. She is heading into her 24th year with the Hawkeyes.

As the all-time winningest coach in program history, Bluder has led the Hawkeyes to 21 postseason appearances (17 NCAA and four WNIT) in 23 seasons, including NCAA Tournament berths in 13 of the last 15 years. Iowa has advanced to 15 consecutive postseason tournaments (13 NCAA and two WNIT).

Bluder is a three-time Big Ten Coach of the Year (2001, 2008, 2010) and was recognized as the Naismith National Coach of the Year in 2019.

Most recently, the Hawkeyes advanced to the 2023 Final Four for the first time since 1993 and made its first ever appearance in the National Championship game. Bluder has produced two consensus National Player of the Year award winners in Caitlin Clark (2023) and Megan Gustafson (2019) in the last five seasons. She has mentored four Hawkeyes to consensus All-America status a total of six times over the last nine seasons (Samantha Logic, 2015; Gustafson, 2018 & 2019; Kathleen Doyle, 2020; Clark, 2022 & 2023).

Bluder has coached her Hawkeye teams to four Big Ten Tournament championships (2001, 2019, 2022, 2023), including three in the last five years, and two regular season league titles (2008, 2022). She has notched 850 career wins and 247 Big Ten victories in her storied career and surpassed C. Vivian Stringer in 2022-23 as the all-time winningest coach in conference history. She is one of 14 Division I coaches to ever win 850 games or more, including one of four active coaches.