Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer smiles as gamers rejoice her 1,202nd victory as a school coach, in opposition to Oregon in an NCAA basketball recreation Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, in Stanford, Calif.
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Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer smiles as gamers rejoice her 1,202nd victory as a school coach, in opposition to Oregon in an NCAA basketball recreation Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, in Stanford, Calif.
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Tara VanDerveer, Stanford’s girls’s coach, has set an all-time report for many teaching wins within the historical past of faculty basketball — males’s or girls’s.
VanDerveer received her 1,203rd victory on Sunday in a recreation Stanford hosted in opposition to Oregon State at Maples Pavilion — passing former Duke males’s coach Mike “Coach Ok” Krzyzewski.
Celebrations had already begun on Friday, when the 70-year-old coach — now in her thirty eighth season at Stanford and forty fifth general — tied the most-wins report. It took Coach Ok 47 seasons to hit the mark.
“It is only a tribute to the nice groups I’ve had, the nice locations I’ve labored,” VanDerveer told the Pac-12 Network on Saturday. “It is nice for ladies’s basketball that there is a number of consideration,” she added, “I work at an incredible place and I’ve a lot help.”
It is VanDerveer’s newest milestone in an extended profession marked by success.
Credited with filling extra seats at girls’s video games, VanDerveer shortly made Stanford an NCAA powerhouse. She’s led the Cardinal to 3 NCAA titles and 25 convention regular-season titles. Seven Stanford alumni have gone on to win eight WNBA titles.
Throughout the 1995-96 season, she took go away from Stanford to function head coach of the ladies’s nationwide crew which she led to the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta to win a gold medal with an undefeated report.
In a current interview with The New York Instances, VanDerveer spilled a couple of secrets to her success: Hiring proper, staying even-keeled and taking dangers are key, she says. Getting her personal coach (a piano trainer to assist her be taught the instrument) has additionally given her inspiration.
Earlier than arriving at Stanford in 1985, she started her teaching profession at age 24 with Ohio State and later Idaho.
So much has modified in girls’s school basketball since VanDerveer graduated from Indiana College in 1975, the place she held beginning guard positions on the ladies’s basketball crew. At a post-game convention on Saturday, she mirrored on how far the game has come.
“We practiced at 7:30 at evening as a result of the boys went from 2 to 7,” she said. “We had Hamburger Helper after we received residence at 9:30 or 10 o’clock at evening. We washed our personal uniforms, we purchased our personal footwear, we drove vans. … My coach was a graduate scholar.
“Simply to see the expertise they get now, I am jealous in a method. However I’d discuss to my school teammates and say, ‘Sometime, there’s going to be scholarships for women — aha, that’ll by no means occur,’ “she mentioned. “My timing was horrible for taking part in, nevertheless it was excellent for teaching. … To expertise that is greater than I ever may have dreamed of.”