College basketball's winningest coach, Tara Vanderveer, announces retirement

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Stanford's Tara VanDerveer, NCAA's all-time winningest basketball coach, retires

Stanford women's basketball head coach Tara VanDerveer, the winningest coach in NCAA history, announced her retirement Tuesday after 38 seasons with the team.

VanDerveer made history in January when she recorded her 1,203 victory against Oregon State at Maples Pavilion. The win pushed her past the record set by former Duke and Army coach Mike Krzyzewski.

Her record currently stands at 1,216 wins after 45 years as a head coach at Idaho (1978-80), Ohio State (1980-85) and Stanford (1985-95, 1996-2024). She led Stanford to three NCAA championships and 14 Final Four appearances and was a 17-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year along with five national Coach of the Year honors. VanDerveer also coached the 1996 U.S. Olympic team to a gold medal at the Atlanta Games during a year away from Stanford.
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This happened Tuesday and I am just hearing about it? Where have I been?

I am a real woman's bball fan and of course Tara Vanderveer is one of my favorites.

Back when my girls were young we went to lots of Iowa women's games when Vivian Stringer was head coach at Iowa. One of the games we went to was a top ten game at Iowa with Vivian Stringer coaching Iowa and Tara Vanderveer coaching Ohio State. What a game! And there were 23,000 fans stuffed into a 15,000 seat arena! As I recall Ohio State won.