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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
Tuesday, July 21, 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...Women’s Basketball Coaching News (Update w/ Caulton Tudor’s thoughts)
Thursday, April 9, 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?
Wednesday, February 25, 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
Sunday, February 1, 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
Sunday, January 25, 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
Saturday, January 24, 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
Wednesday, January 7, 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
Monday, July 7, 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...Kay Yow wins ESPY Award named for Jim Valvano
Thursday, July 12, 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...Kay Yow, inspiration
Tuesday, March 20, 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
Sunday, March 18, 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, [...]
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
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