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...Delaney-Smith is also the winningest women’s coach in the history of the Ivy League, and her 215 league victories are second only to the legendary Pete Carill of Princeton, who tallied 315 wins. She remains the only head coach in NCAA history to guide a No. 16 seed to a win over a No. 1 in the NCAA tournament, which she did against Stanford...
...Delaney-Smith served as an assistant coach with the World Championship Team for Young Women in 2003, but the University Games presented her first opportunity to take over as head coach in international play...
While many of her players took summer internships or joined summer basketball leagues, Delaney-Smith was coaching the likes of 2005 Naismith Player of the Year Seimone Augustus of LSU and preseason All-American Monique Currie from Duke. Players from perennial national powerhouses Texas Tech, Stanford, Notre Dame, and Ohio State were on the squad...
...Delaney-Smith was the sole representative of the Ivy League on this year’s squad and is the first Ancient Eight coach ever to be named to the World University Games coaching staff. Her fellow coaches came from high profile national programs; LSU made the Final Four in 2005, and BC spent all of last season...
...What I think our big challenge was for me to have to balance the synergy on my coaching staff,” Delaney-Smith said. “Cathy is from BC and she’s on TV all the time, Pokey’s on TV all the time, and people are probably still saying, ‘Does Harvard have basketball...