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Women's Basketball Coaches Association
The Women's Basketball Coaches Association is an association of coaches of women's basketball teams at all levels. The organization was formed in 1981, with the goal of addressing the needs of women's basketball coaches. The mission of the WBCA is: The WBCA provides education for coaches, and promotes the coaching profession with awards for coaches and players. While many of the awards are related to basketball activities, the WBCA recognizes the need for academic as well as athletic excellence and recognizes academic excellence with their Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll. History An organizational meeting was held at the Olympic Festival in Syracuse, New York, in 1981. Jill Hutchison was named the first president of the organization, before the organization even had a name. Later that year, Betty Jaynes was named the interim executive director of the organization. Jaynes was the head coach of the James Madison University women's basketball team, but she resigned her positio ...
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Jill Hutchison
Jill Hutchison (born March 8, 1945) is an American retired women's basketball coach, having served as head coach for 28 seasons at Illinois State. Hutchison also served as the first president of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association. She was active in USA Basketball, serving as the head coach of the gold medal-winning team representing the US at the USA Women's World University Games Team, World University Games in 1983. Hutchison was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009. Early years Although the University of New Mexico (UNM) had a women's basketball team as early as 1898, formal intercollegiate play did not start until the 1974–75 season. Hutchison attended New Mexico, graduating in 1967, and played basketball for intramural teams during her time at the school. Occasionally, the teams would play at "sports days" at area schools in Arizona and Utah. Illinois State After graduating from UNM, Hutchison was admitted to the master's program at Illinois Stat ...
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WBCA National Coach Of The Year Award
The United States Marine Corps/WBCA National Coach of the Year is an award given by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association to best women's basketball Head Coaches in college and high schools since 1983. From 2014, the award is named "The Pat Summitt Trophy" in honor of the legendary University of Tennessee Lady Vols head coach. The WBCA presents an award to the National Coach of the year in each of six divisions: * NCAA Division I * NCAA Division II * NCAA Division III * NAIA * Two-Year College * High School Winners Geno Auriemma is the recipient of the most WBCA awards with seven (1997, 2000, 2002, 2008, 2009, 2016, 2017), all of them while coaching the University of Connecticut. Sylvia Hatchell is the only coach to receive the award in different categories: NAIA in 1986 with Francis Marion College and NCAA Division I in 2006 with the University of North Carolina. Besides Hatchell, other two coaches have received the award with different schools: Jorja Hoehn (NCAA Divisi ...
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Women's Basketball Coaches
A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or Adolescence, adolescent is referred to as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and women with functional uteruses are capable of pregnancy and giving childbirth, birth from puberty until menopause. More generally, sex differentiation of the female fetus is governed by the lack of a present, or functioning, ''SRY'' gene on either one of the respective sex chromosomes. Sex differences in human physiology, Female anatomy is distinguished from male anatomy by the female reproductive system, which includes the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina, and vulva. An adult woman generally has a wider pelvis, broader hips, and larger breasts than an adult man. These characteristics facilitate childbirth and breastfeeding. Women typically have less facial and other body hair, have a higher body fat composition, and are on average shorter and less ...
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List Of College Women's Basketball Coaches With 600 Wins
This is a list of College basketball, college women's basketball coaches by number of career wins. The list includes coaches with at least 600 wins at the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA, Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, AIAW and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, NAIA levels. Geno Auriemma, head coach of the UConn Huskies women's basketball, UConn Huskies since 1985, is at the top of the list with 1,250 career wins. The highest winning percentage in the group also belongs to Geno Auriemma, with a career winning percentage. The fastest coach to reach 600 wins is GP Gromacki, current head coach of Division III Amherst College, who reached the mark in his 686th game on February 2, 2024. NCAA and NAIA women's basketball coaches with 600 wins Key The source for all statistics and schedules for NCAA teams is https://stats.ncaa.org/head_coaches Sources for NAIA teams are specified in the relevant entries. Coaches Statistics update ...
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Naismith College Coach Of The Year
The Naismith College Coach of the Year Award (officially known for sponsorship reasons as the Werner Ladder Naismith College Coach of the Year) is an award given by the Atlanta Tipoff Club to one men's and one women's NCAA Division I collegiate coach each season since 1987. The award was originally given to the two winning coaches of the NCAA Division I basketball tournament for the first two years of its existence; in 1989, the Naismith Award's governing board decided to give it out via voting process. The men's side has had five multiple winners: John Calipari and Mike Krzyzewski with three each, and Tony Bennett, Mark Few, and Jay Wright with two each. The women's side has also had five multiple winners: Geno Auriemma with eight; Pat Summitt with five; Dawn Staley with four; and Muffet McGraw and Tara VanDerveer with three each. Key Winners See also * List of coaches in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame * Naismith College Player of the Year *Jame ...
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Women's Basketball Hall Of Fame
The Women's Basketball Hall of Fame honors those who have contributed to the sport of women's basketball. The Hall of Fame opened in 1999 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. It is the only facility of its kind dedicated to all levels of women's basketball. Knoxville is known for having a large women's basketball following as well as being the home of the University of Tennessee's Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball, Lady Vols basketball team previously coached by women's coach Pat Summitt, who was part of the first class inducted. With the 2017 Induction, the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame celebrated its 19th anniversary and added six new members to its hall, honoring 157 inductees. Inductees may be nominated in the following categories: Coach, Veteran Coach, Player, International Player, Veteran Player, Contributor, and Official. Highlights Women's Basketball Hall of Fame campus The Women's Basketball Hall of Fame is home to the world's largest basketball sitting on the north ...
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Mel Greenberg Media Award
The Mel Greenberg Media Award, named after Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Legend Mel Greenberg, is presented annually by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) to "a member of the media who has best displayed a commitment to women’s basketball and to advancing the role of the media in the women’s game". Selection process The inaugural award was given to Mel Greenberg in 1991 by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association, WBCA. Thereafter, future winners have been selected by the past recipients. Candidates for consideration must "have had a positive impact on the growth and national or regional exposure of the sport, been involved in the media exposure of women’s basketball for a minimum of five years and should be a media ambassador for the women’s game." Presentation The award is presented annually at the WBCA Award ceremony, during the annual WBCA Convention, which is held each year in conjunction with the NCAA Women's Final Four. Award winners * 1991—Mel ...
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Stacey Dales
Stacey Dales (born September 5, 1979) is a Canadian-American former basketball player and a current reporter on the NFL Network. Dales was born in Collingwood, Ontario, and raised in Brockville, Ontario. Basketball career High school Before attending the University of Oklahoma, she attended Thousand Islands Secondary School (TISS) and Dales was a star for the TISS Pirates ladies basketball team during her high school years, Dales was a major reason why TISS captured three consecutive Ontario ‘AA’ high school senior girls basketball championships 1994, 1995 & 1996. College After graduating in 1997 she attended the University of Oklahoma, Dales made an Olympic appearance for Canada in 2000 and was a first team All-American in 2001 and 2002. She was named the 2001 and 2002 Big 12 Conference Player of the Year and is the Big 12 all-time career assist leader (764). In 2002, she was the all-sports Academic All-American of the Year. She was the first Oklahoma player to record 1,70 ...
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The Des Moines Register
''The Des Moines Register'' is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa, United States. History Early period The first newspaper in Des Moines was the ''Iowa Star''. In July 1849, Barlow Granger began the paper in an abandoned log cabin by the junction of the Des Moines and Raccoon River. In 1854, ''The Star'' became the ''Iowa Statesman'' which was also a Democratic paper. In 1857, ''The Statesman'' became the ''Iowa State Journal'', which published three times per week. In 1870, ''The Iowa State Journal'' became the ''Iowa State Leader'' as a Democratic newspaper, which competed with pro- Republican ''Iowa Daily State Register'' for the next 32 years. In 1902, George Roberts bought the ''Register'' and ''Leader'' and merged them into a morning newspaper. In 1903, Des Moines banker Gardner Cowles, Sr. purchased the ''Register and Leader''. The name finally became ''The Des Moines Register'' in 1915. (Cowles also acquired the '' Des Moines Tribune'' in 1908. The ...
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Carol Eckman
Carol Ann Eckman (January 11, 1938 – July 30, 1985) was an American women's basketball coach and was known as the "Mother of the Women's Collegiate Basketball Championship". She was the basketball coach at West Chester University from 1967–72 and helped organize the first collegiate women’s basketball championship tournament in 1969. Her team, the Golden Rams, won the national championship game each of the next three years. She had a 68-5 record in her five seasons as the coach of West Chester University. The annual Carol Eckman Award is given by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association to a women's college basketball coach. In 1999, she was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. Eckman was born in Berlin, Pennsylvania, to Frank Eckman, the son of Swedish immigrants, and Grace Smearman, of German descent. She died in Williamsport, Pennsylvania Williamsport is a city in and the county seat of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 ce ...
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Carol Eckman Award
The Carol Eckman Award is an award given annually since 1986 to the women's college basketball coach that "best demonstrates the character of the late Carol Eckman, the mother of the collegiate women's basketball national championship". Given by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA), the award is named for former women's head coach Carol Eckman, best known for establishing in 1969 the first National Invitational Women's Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament. Eckman, who served as head coach at West Chester State College, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Lock Haven State College, started the national tournament while at West Chester State College. She started the sixteen team tournament in 1969. Eckman invited 15 teams to the West Chester campus, charging each $25 to cover officials and awards. This tournament served as a springboard for the formation of the AIAW The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was a college athletics organizatio ...
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NCAA WBCA Coaches Trophy
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and 1 in Canada. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges and helps over 500,000 college student athletes who compete annually in college sports. The headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Until the 1956–57 academic year, the NCAA was a single division for all schools. That year, the NCAA split into the University Division and the College Division. In August 1973, the current three-division system of Division I, Division II, and Division III was adopted by the NCAA membership in a special convention. Under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools can offer athletic scholarships to students. Division III schools may not offer any athletic scholarships. Generally, larger schools compete in Division I and smaller schools in II and III. Division I football was further divided into I-A and ...
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