Women's Basketball
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- augusm@uw.edu
Michelle Augustavo enters her fourth season as the assistant women's basketball coach at Washington. Augustavo has helped the Huskies steadily improve while rebuilding over the last three years, posting an overall record of 31-61 at UW including an 13-17 record in 2019-20. Washington posted its most overall wins (13) and conference wins (5) in the Wynn era despite another tough schedule. The Huskies were able to knock off Big Ten power Iowa to go 3-0 at the Puerto Rico Classico and ended the home portion of the schedule with an impressive 74-68 upset victory over No. 8 UCLA.
In 2018-19, Washington went 11-21 despite playing the 14th-toughest schedule based on average opponent winning percentage according to herhoopstats.com. Despite a rough regular-season, the Huskies made an impressive run through the Pac-12 Tournament to end the year. Washington entered as the No. 11 seed in the tournament, but knocked off the No. 6 seed Utah 64-54 in the first round. The Huskies then pulled off a massive upset, beating the No. 3 seed (and No. 11 ranked) Oregon State 68-67 to reach the Pac-12 Tournament semifinals for just the third time in program history.
In 2017-18, the Huskies posted a 7-23 overall record, after losing over 85 percent of its scoring and rebounding from the previous year and had just one player which had started a collegiate game prior to the start of the season. Despite its inexperience, UW led the Pac-12 in turnovers forced at 17.80 per game and ranked third in steals at 9.3 per game and second in three-pointers made at 8.5 per contest.
Augustavo is familiar with the Husky program after a successful collegiate career where she was a two-time team captain at Washington. As a senior, she was a Pac-10 All-Academic selection and earned the 101 Club Scholar Athlete Award. Augustavo, who played two years at San Diego before transferring to UW, set the Toreros' single-game scoring record with 42 points against Clemson.
Augustavo arrived back in Seattle after spending one year as an assistant coach at LBSU and four years as an assistant at UC Irvine. In addition to her game day coaching duties, Augustavo was the primary recruiting coordinator and managed on-court player development. She also served as the UCI Youth Camp Director, facilitated community outreach and created fundraising campaigns during her time with the Anteaters.
Prior to her stint at UCI, Augustavo was the director of operations at Denver (2011-12) and an assistant coach at Sacramento State (2010-11). She was the academic coordinator, while she also assisted with recruiting and player development for the Hornet program. Augustavo started her coaching career at Seattle U, working under head coach Joan Bonvicini in 2009-10.
A native of Seattle, Augustavo graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature, and a minor in Education in 2009. She went on to earn her master's degree in Coaching and Athletics Administration from Concordia University (Irvine) in 2014.
She is married to Mia Fisher, who is currently the Head Coach at Lakeside School in Seattle, and have one duaghter.
