North Carolina State University Athletics
CBS's Pride, Passion & Power Features Coach Yow
1/14/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
NC State head women’s basketball coach Kay Yow will be featured this Sunday on CBS from 3-4 p.m., on its 2009 women’s college basketball preview: “Pride, Passion & Power.”
The show is part of the stations CBS Sports Spectacular! programming from 12-4 p.m. - leading into the NFL Divisional Championship pregame show.
As women’s college basketball steps back into the forefront, and we begin the ritual countdown to March Madness and this year’s NCAA Final Four in St. Louis, the 2009 edition of “Pride, Passion & Power” sets the stage with an hour-long preview hosted at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., by ESPN’s Trey Wingo and Carolyn Peck. A decade ago, Ms. Peck became the first and remains the only African-American head coach to win the N-C-A-A national championship, when she led Purdue to the crown.
This year’s program will profile two eminent women’s basketball coaches, Kay Yow of NC State and C. Vivian Stringer of Rutgers. Coach Yow’s illustrious resume includes more than 700 coaching victories, five ACC championships, an NCAA Final Four, and Olympic Gold. Her four decades of coaching success become even more impressive when one considers that for the past 20 years, she’s been battling breast cancer. The feature on Coach Yow (who recently announced last week that she will step down for the remainder of the season) will look at her battle to help find a cure for breast cancer through the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer foundation, in conjunction with the foundation of her former NC State colleague, the late Jimmy Valvano.
C. Vivian Stringer is another pioneering figure in women’s basketball. She put tiny Cheney State on the basketball map by making it to the first-ever NCAA national title game in 1982. She then made history by taking Iowa to the 1993 Final Four and Rutgers to the 2000 and 2007 Final Fours... At each coaching stop, there were major hurdles to clear and she not only surmounted them, she transformed them into what educators like to call “teaching moments.”
Each year, “PP&P” runs a feature called “Whatever happened to...?” This year, we’ll catch up to Jamila Wideman, who captained Stanford from 1993 to 1997, and led the Cardinal to three Final Fours. Her unique family history and career path have led her from stardom on the court at Stanford to legal excellence in the courts of New York City. Jamila is a product of African-American and Jewish ancestry who has learned from both painful family experience as well as from her own law practice that the answers to criminal justice issues are also rarely defined in black and white.
Throughout the hour, leading candidates for the State Farm Wade Trophy will be spotlighted. The 2009 finalists are: Angel McCoughtry of Louisville, Maya Moore of UConn, Courtney Paris of Oklahoma, and Maryland’s Marissa Coleman and Kristi Toliver.
All that and Final Four predictions by Trey and Carolyn are coming your way on this year’s all-new edition of “Pride, Passion & Power.”
Tune In: CBS Sunday, January 18th from 3:00-4:00PM (ET)
The show is part of the stations CBS Sports Spectacular! programming from 12-4 p.m. - leading into the NFL Divisional Championship pregame show.
As women’s college basketball steps back into the forefront, and we begin the ritual countdown to March Madness and this year’s NCAA Final Four in St. Louis, the 2009 edition of “Pride, Passion & Power” sets the stage with an hour-long preview hosted at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., by ESPN’s Trey Wingo and Carolyn Peck. A decade ago, Ms. Peck became the first and remains the only African-American head coach to win the N-C-A-A national championship, when she led Purdue to the crown.
This year’s program will profile two eminent women’s basketball coaches, Kay Yow of NC State and C. Vivian Stringer of Rutgers. Coach Yow’s illustrious resume includes more than 700 coaching victories, five ACC championships, an NCAA Final Four, and Olympic Gold. Her four decades of coaching success become even more impressive when one considers that for the past 20 years, she’s been battling breast cancer. The feature on Coach Yow (who recently announced last week that she will step down for the remainder of the season) will look at her battle to help find a cure for breast cancer through the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer foundation, in conjunction with the foundation of her former NC State colleague, the late Jimmy Valvano.
C. Vivian Stringer is another pioneering figure in women’s basketball. She put tiny Cheney State on the basketball map by making it to the first-ever NCAA national title game in 1982. She then made history by taking Iowa to the 1993 Final Four and Rutgers to the 2000 and 2007 Final Fours... At each coaching stop, there were major hurdles to clear and she not only surmounted them, she transformed them into what educators like to call “teaching moments.”
Each year, “PP&P” runs a feature called “Whatever happened to...?” This year, we’ll catch up to Jamila Wideman, who captained Stanford from 1993 to 1997, and led the Cardinal to three Final Fours. Her unique family history and career path have led her from stardom on the court at Stanford to legal excellence in the courts of New York City. Jamila is a product of African-American and Jewish ancestry who has learned from both painful family experience as well as from her own law practice that the answers to criminal justice issues are also rarely defined in black and white.
Throughout the hour, leading candidates for the State Farm Wade Trophy will be spotlighted. The 2009 finalists are: Angel McCoughtry of Louisville, Maya Moore of UConn, Courtney Paris of Oklahoma, and Maryland’s Marissa Coleman and Kristi Toliver.
All that and Final Four predictions by Trey and Carolyn are coming your way on this year’s all-new edition of “Pride, Passion & Power.”
Tune In: CBS Sunday, January 18th from 3:00-4:00PM (ET)
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