Utah’s Lynne Roberts weighed in on what makes the Stanford women’s basketball coach Tara VanDerveer, now the winningest coach in NCAA college basketball history, so special.
It never fails, Tara VanDerveer always takes a minute to thank everybody for coming to the game and that includes offering her immense gratitude to the Stanford band. On Sunday, moments after her latest remarkable milestone in a career filled with them and as the new winningest coach in basketball history, she politely asked the band to stop playing. VanDerveer took the microphone and began with her words of appreciation once more.
Tara VanDerveer became the winningest coach in college basketball history Sunday when her Stanford Cardinal beat Oregon State. She now has a career mark of 1,203-267.
Stanford University’s Tara VanDerveer is now the all-time winningest coach in all of NCAA basketball history after the Cardinal defeated the Oregon State Beavers 65-56 Sunday at the Maples Pavilion in California.
A head coach since her mid-20s and still doing it now at 70, VanDerveer tied Mike Krzyzewski as the winningest coach in college basketball history with her 1,202nd victory Friday night. That was not a job for women.