Naismith COY Semifinalist

STANFORD, Calif. – Setsuko Ishiyama Director of Women's Basketball Tara VanDerveer was named one of 10 semifinalists for the 2017 Werner Ladder Naismith Women's College Coach of the Year the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced Friday.
 
A national voting academy will now submit ballots to whittle the list down to four finalists, which will be announced the morning of March 15. VanDerveer previously won the award in 1990 and 2011.
 
Stanford's Hall of Famer became the third Division I basketball coach to win 1,000 games when the Cardinal beat USC on Feb. 3. In her 31st season on the bench at Stanford, VanDerveer has accumulated a 1,005-230 record in her 38 years as a collegiate head coach and an 853-179 mark on The Farm. Her teams have won 20 or more games 32 times and VanDerveer has coached a team to 30 wins 13 times.
 
VanDerveer, who has more career wins than 341 of the country's 349 Division I programs, has guided Stanford to a 25-5 mark this season, its 16th straight 20-win campaign. The Cardinal has won with a balanced attack featuring six different leading scorers, including three players averaging over 12 points per game for the first time since 2011.
 
Stanford is 24th in the nation in field goal percentage (.451) and eighth in field goal percentage defense (.346), one of seven programs in the country in the top 25 nationally in both categories.
 
The No. 2 seed at the Pac-12 Tournament in Seattle, Stanford will match up with No. 7 seed Washington State in tonight's quarterfinals at 6 p.m.