The University of Montana Women's Basketball

The 2025-26 season is Nate Harris’s first year as head coach at Montana, his fifth year as a coach for the Lady Griz. He was initially hired in April 2021 as an assistant coach after serving the previous two seasons as the head coach at NCAA Division II Angelo State in San Angelo, Texas. He spent two years in an assistant position at Montana before being promoted to associate head coach. Harris was elevated to interim head coach in January of the 2024-25 season and led the Lady Griz through their final 17 games before being named to the permanent position at season’s end. As interim head coach, he guided Montana to a 9-8 record and to wins over No. 3 Idaho and No. 2 Northern Arizona at the Big Sky Conference tournament in Boise. In the championship game against No. 1 Montana State, it took a last-second shot by the Bobcats to end Montana’s season one shot short of making its first NCAA tournament since the 2014-15 season. In Harris’s first year on staff, in 2021-22, Montana had a seven-win improvement from the previous season. In his third year, the Lady Griz broke out, winning 23 games, advancing to the WNIT and winning a game in a national postseason tournament for the first time since 2014. The Lady Griz, who ranked second nationally in 3-point field goals (10.8/g), ended that season with a NET ranking of 98. Harris has been coaching collegiately on a full-time basis since 2008-09, with most of that time spent in the state of Montana. Born in Sidney and raised mainly in Ro