Kay Yow won more than 700 games as NC State's women's basketball coach from 1975 to 2009. Jim O'Connor/USA TODAY Sports Editor's note: Mary Ullmer, espnW associate editor, originally wrote the ...

Even if you’re not a sports fan, it’s impossible not to know her name - Kay Yow. Coach Yow led the NC State Wolfpack women’s basketball team for 34 years until her death from breast cancer ...

The day before the NC State's women's basketball court at Reynolds Coliseum was named in honor of coach Kay Yow, she was carried off of it on a stretcher. But you'd never know it by watching her ...

Sandra Kay Yow is the name her mother, Elizabeth, and her father, Hilton, gave her 62 years ago. There’s another name by which the world knows her: Coach. North Carolina State women’s ...

An inspiration to thousands as she battled cancer while leading the North Carolina State University women's basketball team, Kay Yow died at WakeMed in Cary on Saturday morning. She was 66.

Kay Yow's life provides an extraordinary answer. In 32 seasons as a women's college basketball coach, the last 28 at N.C. State University, Yow has been at the forefront of a vast expansion of ...

N.C. State women’s basketball coach Kay Yow, photographed in her office in 1986. Scott Sharpe [email protected] Had she lived — had she not died of cancer in 2009 — Kay Yow would have ...

Some stories in sports go far beyond the box score. The post "Lost My Mom to Cancer": Courtney Vandersloot's Emotional Plea ...

Before today I knew very little about Kay Yow, the woman pictured above. After learning some about her life in less than a day, I wish I had known her as a friend. This story has a somber mood b ...

Yow was caught a bit off guard. As the athletic director at NC State at the time, she was in charge of hiring the next coach for the women’s basketball program — one her sister, Kay ...

Head coach Wes Moore has the lofty job of returning NC State to glory. Hall of Fame coach Kay Yow took the Wolfpack to their lone previous Final Four appearance in 1998. The team went to the Sweet ...

Kay Yow won more than 700 games as NC State's women's basketball coach from 1975 to 2009. Jim O'Connor/USA TODAY Sports Editor's note: Mary Ullmer, espnW associate editor, originally wrote the ...