Apr 4, 2022 · In the following two decades, South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley has emerged as the most prominent voice for Black coaches in college basketball. Thompson’s impact cannot be overstated. Not only coaches but also many Black journalists owe a …

She is the first person to win the Naismith Award as both a player and a coach. During her college career with Virginia from 1988 to 1992, Staley set the NCAA record for steals, the school record for points, and the ACC record for assists.

Mar 30, 2021 · South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley, who has been with the Gamecocks since 2008, wore a T-shirt featuring Thompson’s likeness as she coached from the sideline. Dawn Staley is honoring John...

Apr 4, 2022 · What started in 1982 when C. Vivian Stringer (Cheyney State) and Thompson became the first two Black coaches to take a team to the Final Four, has evolved into something that has made Staley...

Jul 26, 2021 · SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — Dawn Staley doesn’t feel any added pressure being the first Black head coach of the U.S. women’s basketball Olympic team. She has had to handle the pressure of representing her country with USA Basketball for more than two decades.

Apr 4, 2022 · But even more impressively, Staley became the only Black coach, male or female, to win multiple titles in NCAA D1 basketball. Only the late, great John Thompson came close to accomplishing that feat in 1985 but lost to Villanova.

Mar 31, 2023 · As South Carolina seeks its second straight N.C.A.A. women’s basketball championship, Coach Dawn Staley carries the hopes of her family, her team and the generation of coaches she has inspired.

Apr 7, 2022 · Staley's role as an elite point guard was to serve as the coach on the floor. She won her second NCAA Tournament crown — the first Black coach to accomplish the feat — with a 64-49 victory over UConn. Her success has given Staley the platform to …

Apr 7, 2022 · Other than Staley, there has only been five to ever win one in the history of men’s and women’s Division I basketball: John Thompson, Georgetown, 1984; Nolan Richardson, Arkansas, 1994; Tubby Smith, Kentucky, 1998; Carolyn Peck, …

Jan 7, 2025 · John Thompson led Georgetown to the championship in 1984, the first of four Black coaches to win it all. Carolyn Peck and her Purdue women did it in 1999 and Dawn Staley of South Carolina joined her in 2017 with the first of her three titles.