This is the hardest time in our lives for all of us. Were so fortunate. We have our health. Have a job. Im not going to act like things are so tough, really proud of our team, how mature theyve been and how focused they have been. This is what it is right now. If you want to play, you have to do it.

Tara VanDerveer

Tara Ann VanDerveer (born June 26, 1953) is an American basketball coach who has been the head women's basketball coach at Stanford University since 1985. Designated the Setsuko Ishiyama Director of Women's Basketball, VanDerveer led the Stanford Cardinal to two NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championships: in 1990 and 1992. She stepped away from the Stanford program for a year to serve as the U.S. national team head coach at the 1996 Olympic Games. VanDerveer is the 1990 Naismith National Coach of the Year and a ten-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year. She is also one of only nine NCAA Women's Basketball coaches to win over 900 games, and one of ten NCAA Division I coaches – men's or women's – to win 1,000 games. Van Derveer was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002. On December 16, 2020 she passed Pat Summitt for most wins in women's college basketball history.

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