Dawn Staley

A look at the bonuses that South Carolina women's basketball coach Dawn Staley will make in her contract with the university for winning the national ...

▪ $25,000 for being named the National Coach of the Year by the AP, or Naismith, or both. USC won it all in 2017 as well with Staley at the helm. ▪ $25,000 for being named the SEC Coach of the Year by the AP or SEC coaches

The South Carolina Gamecocks defeated the UConn Huskies 64-49 in Sunday's national championship game, which means Dawn Staley just handed Geno Auriemma his ...

The price tag? And she did it all while dripped in some expensive designer brand clothing that only someone of Dawn Staley’s pedigree could ever pull off. The South Carolina Gamecocks defeated the UConn Huskies 64-49 in Sunday’s national championship game, which means Dawn Staley just handed Geno Auriemma his first loss as a head coach in 12 national championship appearances.

When asked about Geno Auriemma's 11-0 record in national championship games, South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley kept it real with reporters.

It is cute that you think it’s the same thing https://t.co/WT6F9RRoAM “It is cute that you think it’s the same thing,” replied a Huskies fan. Dawn Staley and the Gamecocks will look to make it 2-0 against the Huskies come Sunday night.

Look: South Carolina women's basketball head coach Dawn Staley is going viral on the sideline of the national title.

Thankfully for her, the Gamecocks are playing like national champions tonight. South Carolina’s star head coach is rocking a $4,850 jacket on the sideline of the national title game on Sunday night. South Carolina’s women’s basketball team is taking it to UConn in the national title game on Sunday evening.

Dawn Staley and South Carolina buttoned up on defense and won their second national championship, stifling UConn for a 64-49 victory Sunday night.

Dawn Staley led South Carolina back to the top of women's college basketball on a path she says was "divinely ordered."

And according to their head coach, it was all part of their divine path. Coach told her star she was not being the dominant presence South Carolina needed her to be. Earlier in the day, Staley shared on social media her “Gameday Devotional,” a pregame ritual she’s been doing for years. Then in last season’s Final Four, a putback attempt by Boston bounced off the back of the rim as time expired in a loss to eventual national champion Stanford. And the order was for us to be national champions on this day.” Stifling defense, a career night from guard Destanni Henderson and another double-double from star Aliyah Boston proved to be enough for a 64-49 victory Sunday night in Minneapolis.

University of South Carolina women's basketball coach Dawn Staley is hoping her team's second national championship in five years reverberates beyond just ...

"To have it come full circle with the opposite result, with us winning the national championship, and turning that frown and those tears upside down — smiling, happy tears." UConn had been 11-0 in national championship games under legendary coach Geno Auriemma before the top-ranked Gamecocks put the first blemish on that record. "And now we have done it again in 2022, so it’s happening a little bit more frequently for us," Staley said.

The Gamecocks may be led by star Aliyah Boston, but their coach's holistic approach shaped their dominant 2021-22 and NCAA title.

“What I think is important as a Black woman and coach is the way you do it, like the example that you set for other coaches to follow,” she said. She likes to think of the net as a symbol, she said. And much like she uses that fact to inspire her players, she tries to use it to uplift other Black women in the sport, too: When she won her first title, in 2017, she cut the net into tiny pieces that she sent to every Black female coach in the country. “Because I know that I have a platform and if I think something is wrong or not happening that I should be able to speak up on it.” That, in some ways, is a natural extension of what the coach did as a player—a point guard who set up all of her teammates to be at their best on the court. There is perhaps no one on the roster for whom that expansion of vision is clearer than in Boston. Her transformation as a player has been impossible to miss: Always talented, her three years in Columbia have seen her grow more assertive to become the most dominant forward in the country. It was in Staley asking all of her assistant coaches to pose alongside her in the spotlight when she accepted her award for Naismith Coach of the Year. It was in her decision to have the Allens hold a session with the players before the first round, recognizing they might need a space to be open and vulnerable without her or her staff in the room. … Not a lot of people have the ability to actually meet the need, to meet them where they are and get them to where they need to be.” It has been one of the coach’s strengths for as long as anyone can remember. “She sees the best in everybody, and she’s able to enhance what they do and take them to the next level, which they probably never saw in themselves. “Her perception of having a pulse on where her team is and what they need—I think it has to be a spiritual gift,” Felicia Hall Allen says, remembering that from Staley even as a player on the Sting. “She has the capacity to read her team, but a lot of people can do that. She was a presence in the paint, but she wasn’t a force, and the team needed more from her. And one by one, she read off the names of her bench players, making sure they got the recognition she felt they deserved: They had been every bit as vital to this process as any of the names the people at home already knew.

Under Staley, the Gamecocks have made 10 consecutive N.C.A.A. tournaments, earned four trips to the Final Four and, after Sunday night, won two national ...

That Sunday’s win was against Connecticut, the most decorated women’s basketball program, suggests a changing of the guard in the sport. So when Staley took over as coach of South Carolina’s women’s basketball team in 2008, she had one goal on her mind. Under Staley, the Gamecocks have made 10 consecutive N. C.A.A. tournaments, earned four trips to the Final Four and, after Sunday night, won two national championships.

South Carolina coach Dawn Staley wants the netlace to represent something more than a title game win. She seeks to give it to Black Journalists.

"I got my 2017 piece of the net that I had in my pocket while coaching," Staley told reporters. I just had it in a mesh bag hanging off of my backpack, and I just chose today to bring it out and just to have with me throughout the game." "I just think just moving forward, like the net is going to represent something, something in our game, something that will advance our game," Staley said after winning her second national championship.