Women's Hoops Blog

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

The Stanford Magazine profiles Tara VanDerveer:

Her father told her that Stanford was a coach's graveyard. Her friends reminded her that she already had a terrific job, where her success had been quick and durable. But when the time for a decision arrived, Tara VanDerveer gambled on her vision of what Stanford women's basketball could become.

"In retrospect," she says, "it was a little crazy."

(Makes me wonder what drinks with the dad's of Tara, Pat and Geno would sound like?)