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Jon Patrick Newlee (born February 26, 1959) is the head women's basketball coach for the South West Metro Pirates, in the NBL1 North in Australia. He previously served for 15 years as the head women's coach at University of Idaho and prior to that served for six years as the head women's basketball coach at Idaho State University.
Newlee got his first head coaching position in 1986 at Southwestern College, a junior college in Chula Vista, California. In three seasons, he turned around its women's basketball program from two wins in his first season to a 22–6 record in the 1988–89 season. Newlee earned Pacific Coast Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors as a result.
After Southwestern, Newlee returned to the major college ranks as an assistant with UTSA from 1989 to 1991, SMU from 1991 to 1999 under Rhonda Rompola, and Hawaii from 1999 to 2002 under Vince Goo.
After six seasons as head coach at Idaho State, Newlee became the ninth head coach in Idaho Vandals women's basketball history on April 15, 2008.
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