Kay yow died
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Yow's considerable efforts will live on
There's a picture of little Kay Yow with her parents. Dad is dressed in a sailor uniform; his oldest of four children, Kay, estimated she was about 6 years old then. That would have put it a few years after World War II.
The framed photograph sits in her Raleigh, N.C., office with so much other history. Actually, it might continue to sit there for some time. How long will it take before someone moves to clean out that office? Who will ever have the heart to do it?
Maybe it won't be "cleaned out." Maybe it will remain unoccupied, like a shrine. Or maybe the next coach of the North Carolina State women's basketball program will keep many things just as they are.
Then again, how can anything ever be the same for the Wolfpack? Yow coached this program for 34 seasons -- from the birth of modern-day women's college basketball to a time when fans now expect to see several televised games a week.
The loss of Yow, who went the distance in a knock-down, drag-out war with cancer before passing away Saturday at age 6
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Who was Coach Kay Yow?
Even if you’re not a sports fan, it’s impossible not to know her name - Kay Yow. Coach Yow led the NC State Wolfpack women’s basketball team for 34 years until her death from breast cancer in 2009. She had over 700 career wins, including an Olympic gold medal when she coached the U.S. women’s basketball team to victory in 1988. She was one of only six Division 1 basketball coaches to boast this number of wins. She guided her squads to twenty NCAA Tournaments including eleven Sweet Sixteen rounds and one trip to the Elite Eight and the Final Four in 1998. Yow became only the third women’s basketball coach in NCAA Division I history to coach 1,000 games with one program.
Yow won multiple awards including national Coach of the Year eight times and was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. She was also the president and founding member of the Women’s Basketball Coaching Association. But despite all these accomplishments, Yow’s legacy extends way beyond the basketball court.
In 1987, Yow was diagnosed with
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Kay Yow
American basketball coach (1942–2009)
| Born | (1942-03-14)March 14, 1942 Gibsonville, North Carolina, U.S. |
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| Died | January 24, 2009(2009-01-24) (aged 66) Cary, North Carolina, U.S. |
| 1971–1975 | Elon |
| 1975–2009 | NC State |
| Overall | 737–344 (.682) |
| 5× ACC regular season (1978, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1990) 4× ACC tournament (1980, 1985, 1987, 1991) | |
| Jimmy V ESPY for Perseverance (2007) FIBA Hall of Fame (2009) | |
| Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2002 | |
| Women's Basketball Hall of Fame | |
Sandra Kay Yow (March 14, 1942 – January 24, 2009) was an American basketball coach. She was the head coach of the NC State Wolfpack women's basketball team from 1975 to 2009. A member of the Naismith Hall of Fame, she had more than 700 career wins. She also coached the U.S. women's basketball team to an Olympic gold medal in 1988 despite having been diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987.[1][2] In 2000, Yow was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. In 2009, she was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame.
In April 2010, Colle
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