Basketball - STALEY Dawn Michelle

In 2013 she was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in the United States of America. (sbnation.com, 29 Mar 2019; masslive.com, 17 Jul 2013)

She was flag bearer for the United States of America at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. (sbnation.com, 29 Mar 2019)

She won gold with the US women's basketball team at the Olympic Games in 1996, 2000, and 2004. (sbnation.com, 29 Mar 2019)

She was named USA Basketball Athlete of the Year in 1994 and 2004. (usab.com, 30 Apr 2019)

She won world championship gold medals in 1998 and 2002, as well as a bronze in 1994. (usab.com, 30 Apr 2019)

She played professional basketball in France and Australia before ending her career in the United States of America with the Houston Comets. (sbnation.com, 29 Mar 2019)

She coached the US women's basketball team to gold at the 2018 World Cup in Spain. (usab.com, 30 Apr 2019)

She was an assistant coach of the US women's basketball team that won gold at the Olympic Games in 2008 and 2016. (usab.com, 30 Apr 2019)

She was head coach for the gold-medal winning US women's team at the 2015 U19 World Championship. (usab.com, 30 Apr 2019)

She has coached the University of South Carolina Gamecocks to five Southeastern Conference regular season titles, and led the Gamecocks to the 2017 NCAA Championship. (apnews.com, 17 Mar 2020; usab.com, 30 Apr 2019)

In 2020 she won the Naismith Coach of the Year award. She is the first athlete to have received the honour as a coach and as an athlete. (sports.yahoo.com, 03 Apr 2020)

In 2020 she won the Pat Summitt Trophy, which is presented to the United States Marine Corps/WBCA NCAA Division I National Coach of the Year. (wbca.org, 24 Mar 2020)

She was named the 2018 USA Basketball National Coach of the Year. (usab.com, 30 Apr 2019)

She was a co-recipient of the 2015 USA Basketball National Coach of the Year award. (usab.com, 30 Apr 2019)

She was named the 2014 Basketball Times National Coach of the Year. (usab.com, 30 Apr 2019)

She won the 2012 Black Coaches Association National Coach of the Year award. (usab.com, 30 Apr 2019)

She received the 1998 American Red Cross Spectrum Award for her work with children in inner-city areas of Philadelphia, PA, United States of America. (usab.com, 30 Apr 2019)

She has won multiple Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year awards in the United States of America. (sbnation.com, 29 Mar 2019)

2017

In 2008 she was appointed head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, United States of America.

She was an assistant coach for the US women's basketball team at the Olympic Games in 2008 and 2016. She has also served as head coach of the US women's junior basketball team, and coached a number of the national team age groups. She coached the Temple Owls - the women's basketball team at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, United States of America - from 2000 to 2008.