Legendary Stanford Women’s Basketball Coach Tara VanDerveer Announces Retirement

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🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Stanford women’s basketball coach, Tara VanDerveer – the winningest coach in the history of college basketball – has announced she’s retiring after 45 years leading the epic team. The news comes after a breakthrough NCAA women’s basketball season in which the women’s championship game drew a bigger television audience than the men’s title game for the first time. We’ll talk about VanDerveer’s achievements and legacy and her role in the ascension of women’s basketball. Guests: Michelle Smith, WNBA beat writer, The Next Jennifer Azzi, chief business development officer, Las Vegas Aces. She was a four-year starter at Stanford from 1987-90, leading the team to its first national championship in 1990. Charmin Smith, head coach, University of California Berkeley's women's basketball team; former player, Stanford women’s basketball team - She was key part of the team's three NCAA Final Four Appearances and three Pac-10 Championships between 1995 to 1997. She is also a former member of the WNBA and ABL. Val Whiting, player, Stanford women's basketball team from 1989-93 - She was part of teams that won two NCAA championships and went to the Final Four three years. She was also named Pac-10 Women's Basketball Player of the Year two years in a row. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:11.3	Tara VanderVier took over the Stanford Women's Basketball From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:18.1	Tara Vandervere took over the Stanford Women's Basketball team in 1985 in the middle of the Reagan presidency.
1:25.0	She built a powerhouse of a program, led the U.S. to Olympic gold in 96, mentored a huge tree of coaches, elevated the game, became the winningest college basketball
1:28.8	coach of all time.
1:30.2	And finally, this week, she announced her retirement at the very moment when, for the first
1:34.7	time, more people watched the women's college basketball final than the men.
1:39.3	What a career and what a legacy.
1:42.1	We'll look back on it with her former players and a longtime reporter who covered her career.
1:47.3	That's all coming up next after this news.
1:58.6	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
2:01.8	Tara Vanderbier, the winningest college basketball coach of all time, has been a legend for decades.
2:07.8	I found an old Stanford Women's Basketball Program online.
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