Unrivaled, a new 3-on-3 women’s pro basketball league, and Athletes Unlimited, a traditional five-on-five league, are both benefiting from the new popularity of women’s sports, with the former set to begin play this Friday and the latter starting in February.
Dawn Staley
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Dawn Staley, an exemplar of coaching greatness
Dawn Staley, a three-time national title winner and four-time National Coach of the Year, was the main speaker for the May 8 Saint Catherine University’s Women of Color Leadership Series.
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Media quest for Great White Hope diminishes South Carolina’s achievement
The media has positioned Iowa’s Caitlin Clark as the Great White Hope, despite South Carolina’s all-Black team winning the WBB national title.
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Coaching carousel keeps Black coaches one-and-done
Tomekia Reed and Tangela Smith were named HBCU National Coach of the Year and Ben Jobe Coach of the Year, respectively.
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Dawn Staley’s coaching gets rave reviews
“She makes other people’s dreams come true.”
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Will the 1982 Cheyney team finally get due recognition?
‘For close to 40 years, only three HBCU schools have been able to win at least one game in March Madness WBB.’
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Final Four wrap up—the Gamecocks emerge as ‘Black America’s team’
‘Anytime a Black coach can receive an award like this means that you’re lending hope to other Black coaches.’
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South Carolina defeats UConn: ‘Nothing better than being a Gamecock right now’
‘Our team had the fight of champions all season long.’
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Final Four dispatch: Staley, Boston garner top national honors
‘I am excited to receive this award and be able to share it with my team, my family and the coaches.’
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Black coach wants to win because ‘everybody is watching’
‘It’s very important to me that I am an example for my players.’
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Staley ‘carrying the torch’ for Black college coaches
Dawn Staley is among the nearly 16 percent of the Black WBB head coaches in the Power 5 conferences.
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A Black History tribute to female coaches
It’s important to showcase Black female coaches and their accomplishments, which often go overlooked.
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Being on both sides of the whistle
A seasoned Coach Staley advises new Coach Whalen New Gopher Women’s Basketball Coach Lindsay Whalen said in last week’s “View” that she soon would “reach out” to South Carolina and U.S. Olympic Women’s Basketball Coach Dawn Staley. Staley in 2000 became the first WNBA player to take a Division I head coaching job (at Temple) […]
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Dawn Staley ‘humbled and honored’ to coach USA Olympics women’s basketball
USC coach becomes first Black female USA national head coach Dawn Staley, then a two-time national player of the year, didn’t make the cut during the 1992 U.S. Olympics women’s basketball team tryouts. “Those were the old school camps when they brought in about 100 people and we all fought it out 2-3 times a day,” […]