About Tara
Tara VanDerveer was born June 26, 1953 in Melrose, Massachusetts. She played college basketball as a guard at the University of Albany and then at Indiana University, where she helped reach the AIAW Final Four in 1973. She began her coaching career as an assistant at Ohio State in 1976, then became head coach at Idaho (1978–1980), Ohio State (1980–1985), and Stanford University (1986–2024). At Stanford she won NCAA Division I championships in 1990, 1992, and 2021, and made 14 Final Four appearances overall. She coached the U.S.
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- Coaching Stanford women's basketball to three NCAA championships (1990, 1992, 2021)
- Winning 1,216 games as a college basketball head coach
- Coaching the U.S. women's Olympic basketball team to gold medal at 1996 Atlanta Olympics
- Leading Stanford to 14 NCAA Final Four appearances
- Winning five National Coach of the Year awards
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