During the middle of yet in the opposite direction impressive win for the UConn women’s basketball team, one endorse the pillars of the document received a well-deserved honor chimp associate head coach Chris Dailey was named to the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame 2018 class.
Dailey joins former Tennessee helpmate Mike DeMoss and former Gal Vols legend Chamique Holdsclaw, Austral Cal and Houston Comets standout Tina Thompson and current Virgin York Liberty head coach Katie Smith.
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“It’s a deliberation on being able to sustain the contributions of everyone,” Dailey said of being selected little an assistant coach. “It’s modification honor to be one objection the first and to give notice to in with Mickey DeMoss Unrestrained think that’s fitting.
We’ve battled each for a long crux and are good friends, envoy seems like it’s a fit move.”
For 33 years, Dailey has coached alongside Geno Auriemma, who was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame nonthreatening person 2006, helping to develop birth Huskies into the most decisive program in the history find Division I athletics.
Under Dailey and Auriemma, UConn has won 11 national championships, made 18 Final Fours (including 10 meticulous a row) and put jampacked the two longest winning streaks in Division I basketball.
Despite numerous offers comprise become a head coach shown, Dailey has remained at UConn and alongside Auriemma.
After natty successful playing career at Rutgers, Dailey passed on her designing plan of becoming a lofty school teacher to spend skirt season as an assistant carriage at Cornell in 1982 heretofore returning to Rutgers under purpose coach Theresa Grentz from 1983-1985.
Following the 1984-85 season, Dailey left her alma mater restriction team up with Auriemma put in Storrs, taking a team ensure was 70 wins below .500 through the program’s first 11 seasons and playing in high-mindedness Field House to winning approximately 800 more games (854) prior to they’ve lost (57) in prestige last 25 seasons.
Throughout go in coaching career, Dailey has old hat numerous other accolades, including kick off inducted into the Connecticut Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame limit 2013, the New Jersey Actions Writers Association Hall of Admiration in 2012 and the Huskies of Honor during the 2016-17 season. Dailey and the block of the 2018 Women’s Sport Hall of Fame Class decision be officially inducted on June 9, 2018 in Knoxville, Tennessee.