Tara VanDerveer becomes winningest NCAA basketball head coach
Stanford head coach earns 1,203rd win.
Stanford's Tara VanDerveer is officially the all-time winningest Division I college basketball coach with her 1,203th win. She beat Mike Krzyzewski's record with a win against Oregon State on Sunday. It's a lifetime dedication and a level of success few can imagine. Winning is hard, and building team after winning team is an immense challenge.
"It means I've coached a lot of great players, have a great staff, worked at great universities," VanDerveer said after the win. "I'm just so blessed and so thankful."
Over a 45-year head-coaching career, she spent two years at Idaho, five at Ohio State, and the rest at Stanford. Only six women head coaches have reached the 1,000 career win mark. VanDerveer was already the winningest Division I women's basketball coach after passing Pat Summit's record of 1,098 wins in 2020.