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Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images Adia Barnes of Arizona and Dawn Staley of South Carolina hope that their appearance in the Final Four will give more opportunities to the other Black women head coaches out there. Although bright, the future of women’s college basketball coaching is still a bit clouded by lingering biases about coaching expertise and authority. The outdated, exclusive path to head-coaching royalty After a collegiate playing career at Albany and Indiana, Tara VanDerveer soon embarked on a collegiate coaching career, taking advantage of connections to grab an assistant coaching position at Ohio State. Two years later, she was head coach at Idaho. She would quickly rise the coaching ranks, returning to Ohio State to become head coach after two seasons. Five seasons later, at 32 years old, VanDerveer was hired as head coach at Stanford, tapped to turn around the floundering Cardinal program.

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