Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer smiles as gamers have a good time her 1,202nd victory as a university coach, in opposition to Oregon in an NCAA basketball recreation Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, in Stanford, Calif.

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Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer smiles as gamers have a good time her 1,202nd victory as a university coach, in opposition to Oregon in an NCAA basketball recreation Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, in Stanford, Calif.

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Tara VanDerveer, Stanford’s girls’s coach, has set an all-time report for many teaching wins within the historical past of school basketball — males’s or girls’s.

VanDerveer received her 1,203rd victory on Sunday in a recreation Stanford hosted in opposition to Oregon State at Maples Pavilion — passing former Duke males’s coach Mike “Coach K” Krzyzewski.

Celebrations had already begun on Friday, when the 70-year-old coach — now in her thirty eighth season at Stanford and forty fifth general — tied the most-wins report. It took Coach Ok 47 seasons to hit the mark.

“It’s just a tribute to the great teams I’ve had, the great places I’ve worked,” VanDerveer told the Pac-12 Network on Saturday. “It’s great for women’s basketball that there’s a lot of attention,” she added, “I work at a great place and I have so much support.”

It’s VanDerveer’s newest milestone in an extended profession marked by success.

Credited with filling extra seats at girls’s video games, VanDerveer shortly made Stanford an NCAA powerhouse. She’s led the Cardinal to 3 NCAA titles and 25 convention regular-season titles. Seven Stanford alumni have gone on to win eight WNBA titles.

During the 1995-96 season, she took go away from Stanford to function head coach of the ladies’s nationwide crew which she led to the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta to win a gold medal with an undefeated report.

In a latest interview with The New York Times, VanDerveer spilled a couple of secrets to her success: Hiring proper, staying even-keeled and taking dangers are key, she says. Getting her personal coach (a piano instructor to assist her be taught the instrument) has additionally given her inspiration.

Before arriving at Stanford in 1985, she started her teaching profession at age 24 with Ohio State and later Idaho.

Quite a bit has modified in girls’s school basketball since VanDerveer graduated from Indiana University in 1975, the place she held beginning guard positions on the ladies’s basketball crew. At a post-game convention on Saturday, she mirrored on how far the game has come.

“We practiced at 7:30 at night because the boys went from 2 to 7,” she said. “We had Hamburger Helper when we got home at 9:30 or 10 o’clock at night. We washed our own uniforms, we bought our own shoes, we drove vans. … My coach was a graduate student.

“Just to see the experience they get now, I’m jealous in a way. But I would talk to my college teammates and say, ‘Someday, there’s going to be scholarships for girls — aha, that’ll never happen,’ “she stated. “My timing was horrible for playing, but it was very good for coaching. … To experience this is more than I ever could have dreamed of.”