Tara VanDerveer became the winningest coach in college basketball history Sunday when her Stanford Cardinal topped visiting Oregon State, 65-56.
VanDerveer, 70, in her 38th season at Stanford, now has a career mark of 1,203-267.
She tied Friday with the previous record holder, Duke University’s Mike Krzyzewski, after she led the Cardinal to a 88-63 victory against University of Oregon.
Her Stanford record sits at 1,051-216 and counting. Before coming to Northern California, VanDerveer was 110-37 in five seasons at Ohio State and 42-14 in two years at Idaho.
VanDerveer led Stanford to national titles in 1990, 1992 and 2021 and has tutored a host of WNBA first-round picks such as Candice Wiggins, Nicole Powell, Jennifer Azzi, Jayne Appel and overall No. 1 selections Chiney Ogwumike and Nneka Ogwumik.
Her near-four-decade run of greatness at Stanford has just one blank space, the 1995-96 season when she left The Farm for a year to concentrate on coaching the gold medal-winning 1996 Olympics U.S. women’s team.
That squad, with all-time greats like Lisa Leslie and Sheryl Swoopes, was considered a key catalyst in sparking interest in the women’s basket during early years of the WNBA.
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