Tara Vanderveer
Stanford University
Tara Vanderveer received the John R. Wooden Award “Legends of Coaching” honor in 2014. VanDerveer led her Stanford teams to five straight Final Fours from 2008-2012, and the Cardinal is the 13- time reigning Pac-12 champion (2001-13), having captured both the regular season and conference tournament titles for the last seven seasons. VanDerveer’s career record in 27 seasons at Stanford is 742-152. Under VanDerveer, Stanford has reached an incredible 25 straight NCAA tournaments, with six consecutive 30-win seasons, 2 NCAA titles (1990 and 1992) and 10 trips to the Final Four. (Note: VanDerveer took a sabbatical in 1995-96, and Stanford reached the Final Four that year as well.) VanDerveer is a 15-time conference coach of the year (13 Pac-12; 2 Big 10). Prior to Stanford, she spent two years at Idaho, and from 1980-85 at Ohio State, where she led her teams to four 20-win seasons and a top 10 national ranking.