[2] In 2000, he moved to Canberra to take up a position as scholarship coach with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) men's basketball program.

[3] In March 2016, Goriss was appointed head coach of the University of Canberra Capitals in succession to Carrie Graf.

The team required some rebuilding in the wake of the retirement of Graf and veteran players Jess Bibby and Lauren Jackson.

[4] Goriss assembled a team with championship material on paper, with captain Natalie Hurst, Abbey Wehrung and Kate Gaze, but after an opening round win, the Capitals went on a thirteen-game losing streak, missing the finals for the seventh year in a row, and finishing sixth.

[5] For the 2018–19 season, the Capitals signed Kelly Wilson, Kelsey Griffin, Kristy Wallace, Marianna Tolo, Leilani Mitchell, and Canadian Kia Nurse.

[3] On 14 June 2024, Goriss was appointed head coach of the Capitals for the 2024–25 WNBL season after Veal stepped down for medical reasons.

In the Opals' run up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, their immediate challenge was the 2017 FIBA Women's Asia Cup in Bangalore, India, in July 2017, where Australia needed a fourth-place finish in order to qualify for the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup;[25] they finished second, losing to Japan in the final.

[26] At the 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup in Tenerife, Spain, the Opals won silver, this time losing out to the United States in the final on 30 September 2018.