Tonya Cardoza
Cardoza in February 2015
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| Sport(s) | Women's college basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Temple |
| Conference | AAC |
| Record | 185–107 (.634) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
April 2, 1968 Roxbury, Massachusetts |
| Playing career | |
| 1987–1991 | Virginia |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1994–2008 | Connecticut (asst.) |
| 2008-current | Temple |
Tonya Cardoza (born April 2, 1968) is the current head coach of the Temple University women's basketball team. She previously played basketball for the University of Virginia 1988-1991, and worked as an assistant coach at the University of Connecticut for fourteen seasons before joining the Temple coaching staff in 2008.
Cardoza grew up in Roxbury, Massachusetts, near Boston, where she played high school basketball at Boston English High, where she earned all-state player honors.
Cardoza played for the Virginia Cavaliers between 1987 and 1991. She graduated in 1991 with a degree in anthropology. The team won the Atlantic Coast Conference regular season in 1987, 1988 and 1991. She was named captain her senior year, led the team in scoring with 15.5 points per games, and helped the team reach the 1991 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament Final Four, where they beat the Connecticut Huskies in the semifinal, then lost in overtime in the championship game. Cardoza was named to the Final Four All-Tournament team along with teammate Dawn Staley.
In the semifinal game against Connecticut, Cardoza was assigned to cover Kerry Bascom, Uconn's best player. Bascom described the defense by Cardoza as like nothing she had ever seen before. In a humorous foreshadowing, on one play, Cardoza was stumbling toward the UConn bench. Head coach Auriemma "playfully ushered her toward a seat with the Huskies"
Cardoza is the holder of several records at Virginia, including:
Cardoza scored 35 points in a game against Fordham on December 28, 1988.
Cardoza briefly played in 1992 as a professional basketball player in Segovia, Spain following her graduation from Virginia.
Cardoza was selected by USA Basketball to play on the U.S. Olympic Festival East team in 1987. The team played four games; in the final game Cardoza scored 13 to help the team win the bronze medal at the event.
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