North Carolina State Favorite Womens Basketball Coach-Kay Yow Dies At Age 66
North Carolina Favorite Womens Basketball Coach-Kay Yow Dies At Age 66 From Breast Cancer.
North Carolina State University, women’s favorite basketball coach, Kay Yow, who won more than 700 games in nearly four decades of coaching, died Saturday at age 66. Her long struggle with breast cancer, finally was over.
Coach Yow had an amazing career. In 1996, she was one of six coaches to amass 700 wins.
Yow, in her 38th season as a basketball coach, had received numerous awards in her life time, including induction into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
She guided her team for 34 years on the sidelines for the NC State Wolfpack. Coach Yow team won four Atlantic Coast Conference titles, averaged 20 wins a season, appeared in 20 of 27 NCCA tournaments and reached the Final Four in 1998.
Her brilliant career was one to be remember and admired. She also coached the 1988 women’s Olympic basketball team to a gold medal in Seoul, South Korea. Coach Yow was beloved by her players, colleagues and fans, and in 2007, N.C. State christened the court in Raleigh’s Reynolds Coliseum in her name.
Yow was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987 and was very active in efforts to raise awareness and money to battle breast cancer.
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I really don’t know anything about basketball but I know her name she seemed to a great person.
I am so sorry to hear of her death at such an early age because she had her whole life ahead of her and had so much more to offer.
This type of cancer takes so many women today and it is so sad and that is a fact.
MAY GOD BLESS HER AND ENTIRE FAMILY NOW AND FOR ALL TIME AS I AM SURE HE WILL!!!