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Coach Yow To Step Down For Remainder of 2008-09 Season NC State director of athletics Lee Fowler and head women’s basketball coach Kay Yow announced jointly today that Yow is stepping away from her coaching duties for the remainder of the 2008-09 season. Associate head coach Stephanie Glance will serve as interim head coach. “Stepping away from coaching is one of the hardest decisions I have had to make, but I have great confidence in the experienced staff I have been working with for such a long time and the character of everyone involved in the program to respond positively to my decision,” said Yow. Yow’s current health situation simply will not allow her to give the energy necessary to coach her team at the standard she feels it deserves. She will revisit this decision no later than the end of the current 2008-09 campaign. Full Story 2009 WBCA's So You Want To Be A Coach Nominations Now Open! Nomination Deadline: January 16! The purpose of the So You Want To Be A Coach workshop is to provide an educational and professional foundation for minority female basketball players in order to better prepare them for entering the coaching profession. So You Want To Be A Coach workshop is two and a half days of superior programming. The goal is to increase the number of minority female basketball players who aspire to coach. For more information, or to apply click here. Please install the latest flash player. Daily Updates... YSU Team Appeared on GMA Division I Pack The House Challenge 2009 Women's Basketball Rules Propo... Baylor Retires Sophia Young’s Jerse... NEW! Academic Progress Rate Changes She Shoots . . . She Scores! ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU& ESPN360.com’s 2... NCAA Unveils 2010 Women's Final Fou... “2009 NCAA Division I Women’s Baske... 2008-09 Women’s Basketball Related ... Update on the Advertising an Instit... Pat Summitt, Lady Vols presented wi... New Type of Reality Show Features “... Attendance Restrictions and Materia... Broward College basketball player d... No. 7 Stonehill To Escapes Bentley ... Yow misses fourth consecutive game ... Pohlen hits five 3-pointers; Stanfo... No. 5 Sooners hold N.C. Central to ... Record night in Division II [More Updates]

Sign-up for the 2009 WBCA Pink Zone Join the 700+ other schools who have already signed up for the 2009 WBCA Pink Zone. Click here and officially sign up as a participant in the 2009 WBCA Pink Zone™. We want to know who's involved in this wonderful cause and inform others of your support! Click here to see who has already signed up! Thanks so much for your participation! For more information on the WBCA Pink Zone™, click here. 2009 WBCA High School All-America Team Nominations Now Available! Since 1992, the WBCA has organized this prestigious event for the nation's most gifted female high school basketball players. Former WBCA High School All-Americans who have participated in this event include several professional athletes such as Sue Bird, Chamique Holdsclaw, Tamecka Dixon, Tamika Catchings, Katie Smith, Nykesha Sales as well as collegiate standouts Seimone Augustus, Diana Taurasi and Alana Beard. Nomination ends January 14, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. EST. Click here to submit your nominations!

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Dates to Remember

January 2009


January 1
New Year’s Day – WBCA Office Closed

January 6
High School Coach of the Year nominations available online (deadline is February 20)

January 6
USA TODAY ESPN DI, II and III Top 25 Coaches’ Poll Released

January 12
Award nominations available online at Noon ET

January 13
USA TODAY ESPN DI, II and III Top 25 Coaches’ Poll Released

January 14
NCAA National Convention begins
WBCA High School All-America Game Nominations due

January 16
So You Want To Be A Coach Application Deadline

January 17
NCAA Board of Directors Meeting
January 19
Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Observed – WBCA Office Closed

January 20
USA TODAY ESPN DI, II and III Top 25 Coaches’ Poll Released
Inauguration Day

January 27
USA TODAY ESPN DI, II and III Top 25 Coaches’ Poll Released

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