Kay Yow – March 14, 1942 – January 24, 2009
January 24, 2009 by Kevin Hunter
Filed under Basketball
If you’ve been watching any college basketball today then you saw that North Carolina State women’s coach Kay Yow died today after a 22 year battle with breast cancer. She was 66 years old.
Yow was one of winningest coaches in women’s basketball history, ranking sixth in all-time wins with a record of 737-344. She coached for 38 years, 34 at North Carolina State. She won four Atlantic Coast Conference tournament titles, 20 bids to the Big Dance, including a Final Four in 1998.
She even coached the 1988 women’s Olympic team to the gold medal. The only thing that eluded …read more
