Carol Ross
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June 11, 1959 Oakland, Mississippi |
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| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
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| College | Ole MIss (1977–1981) | ||||||||||||
| Coaching career | 1982–2014 | ||||||||||||
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| 1982–1983 | Belhaven (assistant) | ||||||||||||
| 1983–1990 | Auburn (assistant) | ||||||||||||
| 1990–2002 | Florida | ||||||||||||
| 2003–2007 | Ole Miss | ||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Atlanta Dream (assistant) | ||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | Los Angeles Sparks | ||||||||||||
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Carol Ross (born June 11, 1959) is an American college and professional basketball coach. Ross has served as the head women's basketball coach for the University of Florida and the University of Mississippi, and also as the head coach of the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
Ross accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Mississippi, where she was a four-year starter at guard for coach Van Chancellor's Ole Miss Lady Rebels basketball team from 1978 to 1981. She developed a reputation as a "pesky" and "tenacious" player who still holds the Ole Miss season record for steals (135), and ranks ninth on the Southeastern Conference (SEC) career steals list. She is one of only two Ole Miss players to record more than 1,000 points, 500 assists and 250 steals in a career. She served as team captain during her senior 1980–81 seasons, and was a key contributor to the overall 93–50 record compiled by the Lady Rebels during her four seasons. Ross graduated from Ole Miss with a bachelor's degree in education 1982, and was inducted into the University of Mississippi Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001.
Ross began her college coaching career in 1982–83 as a volunteer assistant for the Belhaven Blazers women's basketball team at Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi. The following year she accepted a graduate assistant position with the Auburn Tigers women's basketball team of Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. She stayed at Auburn for seven seasons, gradually being promoted to associate head coach and chief recruiter.
Presented with an offer to lead another SEC program in 1990, Ross became the head coach of the Florida Gators women's basketball team of the University of Florida. Before Ross, the Gators were a perennial cellar dweller; with Ross, the Gators became the SEC's fourth team of ten. Arguably the Gators' best season under Ross was 1996–97, when the Gators posted a 24–9 record, advanced to the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight, and earned their first-ever top-10 poll ranking, and DeLisha Milton was recognized as the best women's player in college basketball when she won the Wade Trophy. Her 2000–01 squad produced her best SEC finish – 11–3 and second place – while compiling an overall record of 24–6.
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