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Remembering Kay Yow: One year later
“When life kicks you, let it kick you forward.” – Kay Yow It’s hard to believe it’s already been one year since the passing of Kay Yow. Her memory as a legendary coach and inspirational figure to thousands suffering from breat cancer has done nothing but grow in the last 365 days, proving that her influence [...]
Continue reading...The State of State 2.0 – Women’s Basketball
21. July 2009
Women’s Basketball I. Records ACC Record: 284-168 (.628) ACC Record Pre-Fowler: 216-102 (.679) ACC Record Under Fowler: 68-66 (.507) State’s all-time ACC winning percentage has dropped 5.1% since Lee Fowler has been AD. Our ACC winning percentage in the 9 years under Fowler is 17.2% worse than the preceeding 23 seasons and is statistically significant [...]
Continue reading...Harper is New Womens’ Coach – or – Fowler finally lands his Cougar(Catamount)
15. April 2009
Sorry…but I didn’t make the moron create this opening with our funny title. (If you are confused, you can click here) In the one of the world’s worst kept secrets of all time, WRAL is reporting that Western Carolina’s Kellie Harper is likely to be named head coach of the women’s basketball team. [...]
Continue reading...Women’s Basketball Coaching News (Update w/ Caulton Tudor’s thoughts)
9. April 2009
Thanks to a link on another thread, WRAL is reporting that Stephanie Glance will not be promoted to head women’s basketball coach at NC State. I don’t really follow women’s basketball, but didn’t want the BB Byte thread to be taken over by this emotional topic. UPDATE: Ronnie Brown, Kay’s brother, talked [...]
Continue reading...Lee Fowler’s Second Search For A Head Basketball Coach: How Will It Go?
25. February 2009
NC State has recently opened a “nationwide search” for the coach to replace the late Kay Yow. Apparently, this runs contrary to the final wishes of Coach Yow: she wanted assistant and interim head coach Stephanie Glance named as her successor and she made that clear to Lee Fowler long before her passing from cancer. Fowler [...]
Continue reading...Kay Yow Mural Defaced After UNC Game With Carolina Blue Paint
1. February 2009
Raleigh, N.C. — A large portrait of North Carolina State University women’s basketball coach Kay Yow, who died one week ago from breast cancer, was defaced by blue graffiti and profanity Saturday night. N.C. State sophomore Forbes Starling, 19, said he heard from other students that Yow’s mural had been defaced after the N.C. State home [...]
Continue reading...Tributes to Kay Yow
25. January 2009
Updated: 850 The Buzz has posted a series of Yow remembrances Right Angles announces the following: NC State womens basketball coach Kay Yow had many, many friends and admirers. Today on NewsTalk 680 WPTF, you’ll hear from them — including UNC womens basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell and longtime colleague and ACC associate commissioner Nora Lynn Finch — [...]
Continue reading...Coach Kay Yow – RIP
24. January 2009
Hall of Famer and longtime North Carolina State women's basketball coach Kay Yow has died after a decades-long fight against breast cancer. She was 66. The university announced that Yow died on Saturday morning. She had been in the hospital since last week. Yow was first diagnosed with the disease in 1987.
Continue reading...Kay Yow to Miss Remainder of Season
7. January 2009
Sad, but not unexpected, news – Kay Yow is finished coaching for the season. Anyone who has lost someone they loved to a long battle with cancer (like me) has an especially heavy heart today. She has beaten the odds before, and we hope and pray that she does so again. Caulton Tudor has [...]
Continue reading...Nora Lynn Finch Leaves NC State For The ACC
7. July 2008
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner John Swofford announced today that Nora Lynn Finch has been chosen to fill the position of Associate Commissioner for Women’s Basketball Operations and Senior Woman Administrator.
Continue reading...SFN Celebrates New Year with NC State Magazine Feature
2. January 2008
HAPPY NEW YEAR! This entry will remain posted near the top for a couple of days…so, if you are visiting the site for the first time or if you are a frequent visitor please don’t ignore all of the entries below. For example, VAWolf logged an awesome statistical post that follows this. We just wanted to take [...]
Continue reading...Kay Yow wins ESPY Award named for Jim Valvano
12. July 2007
It’s nice to see others have been inspired by NC State women’s basketball coach Kay Yow over the years! Per WRAL: North Carolina State women’s basketball coach Kay Yow won the inaugural Jimmy V ESPY for Perseverance on Wednesday. She was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer while coaching the Wolfpack during this year’s NCAA tournament. Yow [...]
Continue reading...Yow’s scrappy Wolfpack faces another No. 1
24. March 2007
The only team in the country this year to defeat Duke and North Carolina is facing another giant: Connecticut. The NCAA tournament game between the fourth-seeded Wolfpack and the No. 1 seed UConn tips off tonight at 9 p.m. NC State coach Kay Yow continues her inspirational battle against stage-4 breast cancer. The News & Observer [...]
Continue reading...Kay Yow, inspiration
20. March 2007
I’m embarrassed to admit, but I write this post in shock and sadness. I had not realized, not until reading an article in The New York Times (of all places!), just how serious NC State women’s basketball coach Kay Yow’s cancer had progressed. The hall-of-fame legend who once coached the Olympic women’s team is at [...]
Continue reading...Very Nice Article by the NY Times on Coach Yow
18. March 2007
If you have a couple spare minutes today, take the time and read article from the New York Times. Yow has persevered even though the disease has spread to her skeleton and liver, and she knows that it will probably become fatal. The cancer treatment has left her feeling weak, dehydrated, short of breath, [...]
Continue reading...Pack Women to Battle Tarheels for Title
4. March 2007
NC State’s women continued their inspiring play on Saturday by knocking off previously unbeaten Duke in the semi-finals of the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament. (Link to N&O article) The Pack continues to play with emotion that no opponent has been able to match. Coach Yow’s week began with treatments for breast cancer. It could end [...]
Continue reading...Kay Yow Court
19. February 2007
You’d have to have been hiding under a rock the last few days to have not been touched by Kay Yow’s return to the NC State bench and big wins, including Friday night’s shallacking of UNC-Chapel Hill on Senior night in Reynolds Coliseum. Check that. Not just Reynolds Coliseum…but at newly named ‘Kay [...]
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24. January 2010
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