NC State Athletic Hall of Fame
Kay Yow
- Induction:
- 2012
Awards
- ESPY Award for Perseverance (2007)
- Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (2002)
- Women's Basketball Hall of Fame (2000)
- John Wooden Award winner
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias Award, highest honor in women's sports (2007)
- North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame (1989)
Records
- All-time winningest coach in NCState women's basketball history
- Fifth winningest coach in NCAA women's basketball history
Team Records
- Career record: 737-344; NC State record: 680-325
- Four ACC Tournament championships (1980, ` 85, `87 and `91)
- Five ACC regular-season championships (1978, ` 80, `83, ` 85 and `90)
- 20 NCAA Tournament appearances, 11 Sweet Sixteens, 1998 Final Four
- 21 20-win seasons in 34 years at NC State
- Guided United States women to gold medal at 1988 Seoul Olympics
- Also won gold medals at 1986 World University Games and FIBA World Championships
- Assistant coach for 1984 gold-medal U.S. Olympic team
General Information
- Became the first full-time women's college coach in state of North Carolina when she was hired in 1974 to be the volleyball, women's basketball and slow-pitch softball coach at NC State
- Also served as the first administrator for women's sports in ACC history. Namesake of Kay Yow Court at Reynolds Coliseum
- Respected motivational speaker, faithful Christian witness and long time ambassador for NC State and women's athletics
- Founded Kay Yow Cancer Fund, a part of The V Foundation for Cancer Research, which has raised more than $7 million for cancer research, through the annual Hoops for Hope basketball game, the Drive4Kay golf tournament and other charity fundraisers
- Born: March 14, 1942; Died, Jan. 24, 2009
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