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Found 4 events matching "women%27s basketball"

1973
Basketball club organized for women

Kathy Bounds, Deb Webb, and Genie Jordan organized a basketball club for women.

1974
First women's basketball team established

A women's basketball team was established for the first time. The team included two African American women, Gwen Jenkins and Cynthia Steele.

04/05/2013
Wes Moore appointed women's basketball head coach

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.

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1/24/2009
Kay Yow's legendary career

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.

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