A longtime assistant under head coach Kelly Graves, Jodie Berry is entering her 11th season with the Oregon women’s basketball program in 2024-25. Berry was elevated to associate head coach during the summer of 2021 after spending her first seven years with the Ducks as an assistant coach. She serves as Oregon’s post coach and helps in opponent scouting and recruiting.
Berry helped lead the Ducks to five consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, including four Sweet Sixteen runs, three Elite Eight appearances and a Final Four in that stretch. She also helped Oregon to three straight Pac-12 regular-season titles from 2017-18 through 2019-20 and two Pac-12 Tournament championships in 2017-18 and 2019-20.
As Oregon’s post coach, Berry has developed two WNBA Draft first-round selections in recent years. Ruthy Hebard was selected by the Chicago Sky with the No. 8 overall pick in the 2020 draft, and Nyara Sabally went fifth overall to the New York Liberty in 2022. She also played a key role in the development of Hebard’s teammates and fellow 2020 first-round picks Sabrina Ionescu (No. 1) and Satou Sabally (No. 2), making Oregon's "Big Three" just the seventh trio of teammates ever to all go in the top-10 of the same WNBA Draft.
Oregon posted a stellar 31-2 overall record and was in position to be a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history before the season was cut short due to COVID-19. Hebard capped a legendary career with a stellar senior season under Berry's tutelage, earning first-team all-America honors while being named the Katrina McClain national power forward of the year for the second time in three years. A four-time all-Pac-12 selection, Hebard led the nation as a senior with a career-high .685 field-goal percentage, and she finished her career as the Oregon and Pac-12 all-time leader with an incredible .651 career mark.
Berry and the Ducks won a second straight Pac-12 regular-season title in 2018-19 while advancing to the program's first-ever NCAA Final Four appearance. Oregon won a school-record 33 games for the second year in a row, and the Ducks outlasted No. 1 seed Mississippi State in the Elite Eight in front of a raucous crowd at the Moda Center in Portland. Hebard had another standout season as a junior, shooting 67.0 percent from the floor to earn honorable mention all-American honors for the second year in a row.
Hebard was named the first-ever recipient of the Katrina McClain national power forward of the year award in 2017-18, when the Ducks swept the Pac-12 regular-season and tournament titles before making a run to a second straight Elite Eight. It was the program's first outright conference title since 2000. Hebard made history midway through the season, setting a new NCAA record (women and men) with 33 consecutive made field goals over a four-game stretch.
Oregon's rapid rise to prominence began with the 2016-17 season, when Ionescu and Hebard bursted onto the scene as true freshmen. The Ducks pulled off a huge upset against Kelsey Plum and Washington in the quarterfinals of the Pac-12 Tournament on the Huskies' home floor, securing their first NCAA Tournament bid since 2005. Oregon, a No. 11 seed, pulled out a one-point win over Temple in the opening round - with Hebard scoring the game-winner with six seconds left - before upsetting No. 2 seed Duke on its home floor in the second round. Playing under the mantra "Winner Stays," the Ducks kept their magical run going with another upset over No. 3 seed Maryland to reach the first Elite Eight in program history.
Berry also coached All-American forward Jillian Alleyne, who earned third team honors in both 2014-15 and 2015-16 and finished her career with the third-most rebounds (1,712) and the second-most double-doubles (92) in NCAA history. Alleyne owns both Oregon’s and the Pac-12’s single-game, single-season and career rebounding records and is just the third player in league history to score 2,000-plus points and grab 1,500-plus rebounds, joining Chiney Ogwumike and Cheryl Miller.
Berry joined the Oregon coaching staff in 2014 after working with head coach Kelly Graves at Gonzaga for 11 seasons.
Berry served as the director of women’s basketball operations at Gonzaga for two seasons before being promoted to an assistant coach for the 2005-06 campaign. She served as Graves’ top assistant for her final six seasons with the Bulldogs, starting in 2008. Working with the offense, Gonzaga led the nation in scoring during the 2010-11 season, averaging 85.3 points per game. The Bulldogs also shot 49.4 percent from the floor that season, good for second-best in the NCAA. Gonzaga won the WCC regular season title in 10 of her 11 years on the bench and advanced to the NCAA Tournament seven times. At Gonzaga, Berry coached five All-Americans, 14 all-WCC performers and five WNBA draft picks, including the No. 3 pick overall pick in 2011, Courtney Vandersloot. Berry was instrumental in signing Vandersloot out of Kent, Wash., as well.
In her own playing career, Berry earned four letters at Western Washington University. She finished her career as WWU’s career leader in three-pointers (210) and free throw percentage (81.9) and earned all-Great Northwest Athletic Conference honors in 2001 and 2002. Western Washington posted a 95-24 record during Berry’s four-year career and made four trips to the NCAA Division II Tournament. The squad made a Div. II Final Four appearance in 2000. She was inducted in to WWU's Hall of Fame in May 2022.
Berry (Kaczor) married her husband, Eric Berry, in 2005 and the couple welcomed their son Tyson in 2010. They added a second son to the family, Kyson, adopted in 2016.
