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Dawn Staley

Dawn Staley
Dawn Staley at Paradise Jam 2012.jpg
South Carolina Gamecocks
Position Head coach
League Southeastern Conference
Personal information
Born (1970-05-04) May 4, 1970 (age 46)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nationality American
Listed height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Listed weight 134 lb (61 kg)
Career information
High school Dobbins Tech
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
College Virginia (1988–1992)
WNBA draft 1999 / Round: 1 / Pick: 9th overall
Selected by the Charlotte Sting
Playing career 1996–2006
Position Guard
Number 5
Coaching career 2000–present
Career history
As player:
1996–1998 Richmond / Philadelphia Rage
1999–2005 Charlotte Sting
2005–2006 Houston Comets
As coach:
2000–2008 Temple
2008–present South Carolina
2017–present United States
Career highlights and awards

As player:

As coach:

  • Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year (2004, 2005)
  • SEC Coach of the Year (2014–2016)
  • Basketball Times Coach of the Year 2014
  • NCAA Regional Championships - Final Four (2015)
  • Atlantic 10 Regular Season championship (2004, 2005, 2008)
  • Atlantic 10 Tournament championship (2002, 2004–2006)
  • SEC regular season championship (2014–2017)
  • SEC Tournament championship (2015-2017)
Stats at WNBA.com
Basketball Hall of Fame as player
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

As player:

As coach:

Dawn Michelle Staley (born May 4, 1970) is an American basketball hall of fame player and coach. Staley is a three-time Olympian and was elected to carry the United States flag at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics. After playing point guard for the University of Virginia under Debbie Ryan, and winning the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, she went to play professionally in the American Basketball League and the WNBA. In 2011, Staley was voted in by fans as one of the Top 15 players in WNBA history. She was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013.

While still a WNBA player, she started coaching the Temple University Owls women's basketball team in 2000. In six years at Temple, she led the program to six NCAA tournaments, three regular season conference championships, and four conference tournament titles.

On May 7, 2008, she was named the University of South Carolina women's head basketball coach. Over the following six seasons, she improved her program's record every year, up to winning the SEC in 2013-2014. In late 2014 her team achieved the program's first #1 ranking, making her only the second individual to both play on and coach a #1 ranked team.

On March 10, 2017 she was named head coach of USA National team


Staley was named the national high school player of the year during her final season at Murrell Dobbins Tech High School in Philadelphia.

Staley attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. During her four seasons in college, she led her team to four NCAA Tournaments, three Final Fours and one National Championship game. She was named the ACC female athlete of the year and the national player of the year in 1991 and 1992. Staley finished her college career with 2,135 points and holds the NCAA record for career steals with 454. She finished her career at Virginia as the school's all-time scoring leader and as the ACC's all-time leader in assists at 729, but those records have since been broken by former UVA stars Monica Wright and Sharnee Zoll, respectively. Her number 24 is retired at UVA.


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