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Category: Basketball, Coaches, Female Athletes, Hall of Famers, Leadership Speakers, Olympic Athletes

Highlights: Dawn Staley is the current women's head basketball coach at South Carolina. As a Hall of Fame player, she was a three-time Olympic gold medalist and six times named a WNBA All-Star.

Travels From: South Carolina

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Dawn Staley has been the head coach of the women’s basketball team at the University of South Carolina since 2008. In 2016-2017, she led the Lady Gamecocks to a 33-4 mark and their first-ever NCAA Championship. She also coached the team to the Final Four in 2014-2015. Prior to South Carolina, Staley coached the Temple Owls from 2000-2008, guiding the team to a 172-80 overall record, which included six NCAA Tournament appearances, three Atlantic 10 Conference regular season titles and four conference tournament championships. Since 2017, she has also served as head coach of the U.S. Women’s National team, leading them to a gold medal at the 2018 World Cup in Spain.

Prior to coaching, Staley enjoyed a Hall of Fame career as a player. Staley played collegiately at the University of Virginia from xxx and led the Cavaliers to four berths in the NCAA Tournament, three appearances in the Final Four and one title game appearance. She was twice named both the Naismith College Player of the Year and ACC Player of the Year. After college, Staley played for the Richmond/Philadelphia Rage (1996-1998) of the American Basketball League (ABL) before competing in the WNBA for the Charlotte Sting (1995-2005) and Houston Comets (2005-2006).

From 2001-2006, Staley was named a WNBA All-Star in six consecutive seasons while in 1997 and 1998, she earned ABL All-Star honors. Staley also represented the United States at three Summer Olympics, winning gold medals at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Games. She was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013 and Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012. In 2011, Staley was named one of the WNBA’s Top 15 Players of all-time.

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