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Women's basketball coach Kay Yow celebrated her 700th win. The Wolfpack beat Florida State, 68-51. Yow eventually racked up 737 wins (at NC State and Elon), making her the fifth highest-winning NCAA Division I basketball coach.
Trudi Lacey was the first African American woman to receive a four-year scholarship in women's basketball at NC State in 1978. She helped the Wolfpack win the school's first ACC women's basketball championship in 1980. She was the first player in ACC history to earn four consecutive all-tournament honors. After college, she coached a number of teams including the Charlotte Sting, the Washington Mystics, Queens College, and Johnson and Wales University.
Wes Moore became women basketball's head coach on April 5, 2013. In 2017, he was honored as ACC's "Coach of the Year." It was the first such honor awarded in the 43-year history of the NC State women’s basketball program.
Melvin was named "Kodak All-American" and "Women's Basketball Journal All-American." She was ACC's "Rookie of the Year" in 1995 and All- ACC in 1997 and 1998. She is 1 out of 4 NC State women's basketball players with more than 1000 career points and rebounds (total 2042 points and 1020 rebounds). She was a member of the teams that made 4 NCAA Tournament appearances between 1995 and 1998 (including Final Four in 1998). She has been named an ACC "Top 50 Female Athlete," and she was inducted into the NC State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014.
Andrea Stinson gained her second All-American honor and was the only women's basketball player with that distinction at the time. That year, she helped her team become ACC tournament champions. The previous year she had been unanimously named ACC's "Player of the Year." In 2013, she was inducted into the NC State Hall of Fame.
Women's basketball coach Kay Yow passed away after a long battle with cancer in 2009. One of the few women to coach more than 1,000 games at a single institution, her NC State record was 680-325. Hoops 4 Hope and the Kay Yow Cancer Fund was initiated to raise money for cancer research. Yow was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the NC State Athletics Hall of Fame.