teams in the Goodwill Games and the FIBA World Championship and the gold-medal-winning U.S.

women’s basketball team in the 1981 World University Games the 1986 gold-winning U.S. Yow also coached the silver-medal-winning U.S. On July 11, 2007, Yow received the inaugural Jimmy V ESPY Award for Perseverance. On Februthe basketball court at Reynolds Coliseum was renamed Kay Yow Court at Reynolds Coliseum in her honor. In recognition for her dedication and success, Yow was selected for induction into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000 and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on June 5, 2002, the fifth female coach to be selected. At the time of her death, she ranked as the fifth winningest active NCAA Division I women’s basketball coach. On February 5, 2007, she reached the 700-win milestone for her career with a 68â€“51 win over Florida State University. On January 11, 2001, she reached the 600-win milestone for her career with a 71â€“64 win over Temple University. She led the women’s basketball team to an ACC championship in the first season of league play in 1978. In 1975, Yow became NC State’s first full-time women’s basketball coach and also coached women’s volleyball and softball. She then earned her Master’s degree in Physical Education from the UNC-Greensboro in 1970 and then took the position of women’s athletics coordinator and women’s basketball coach at Elon College. After graduation she worked as English teacher, librarian and girls’ basketball coach at Allen Jay High School in High Point, North Carolina. Yow received her Bachelor of Science degree in English from East Carolina University in 1964. women’s basketball team, despite having been diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987.

She also won an Olympic gold medal as coach of the 1988 U.S. A member of the Naismith Hall of Fame, she had more than 700 career wins. She was the head coach of the women’s basketball team at North Carolina State University from 1975 to 2009. Sandra Kay Yow (Maâ€“ January 24, 2009) was an American basketball coach. On Coach Yow from Wikipedia:(go there now to find out more) Coach Smith was inducted by FIBA earler this year. She joins Coach Dean Smith from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the FIBA hall. Coach Yow also coached the US women’s team to the Gold in the 1988 Olympics. State University where she won over 700 games. She experienced much success as the women’s coach during the AIAW period at Elon College and then became the first full-time women’s head basketball coach at N.C. This is the do-all, end-all of basketball and is looked upon as being equal with FIFA which is the world-wide international governing body for soccer.Ĭoach Kay Yow passed away earlier this year due to complications from cancer year and she was thought to be by many, one of the all-time greats, in the sport of women’s basketball at any level.Ĭoach Yow graduated from Gibsonville High School(now Eastern Guilford) and went on to receive her teaching degree from East Carolina University. The honors don’t get any higher than this. FIBA is the governing body for all international basketball and is considered the highest level of basketball within a scope of the sport played competitively worldwide. Coach Kay Yow has been inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame.

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