Tara VanDerveer

b. 1953
Category
Coaching
Year Inducted
2010
VanDerveer, who owns a home at Chautauqua Institution and has vacationed every summer there since she was 8, was born in Boston on June 26, 1953.
While at Chautauqua, she participated in competitive sailing at the Chautauqua Yacht Club and was a waterfront counselor at the Chautauqua Boys and Girls Club and holds the club's record for the longest softball throw that was made in the 1960s.
She also achieved the difficult advanced swimming degree in Group 8 at Chautauqua.
VanDerveer has won two NCAA titles at Stanford where she is in her 24th season. She captured the crowns with a 32-1 record in 1989-1990 and in 1991-1992 with a 30-3 record.
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Her record at Stanford is an outstanding 620-143 in this her 24th season at the helm.
Prior to that, the former Indiana University starting guard for three years began her coaching at the Idaho University and recorded a two-year record of 42-14 and went on to a five-year career at Ohio State University where she had a 110-37 record, including four Big 10 titles.
She took over the Stanford program in 1985-1986 and after having a 27-28 record in her first two seasons she has been well over .500 since.
Internationally, she coached USA women's Olympic basketball team to a perfect 60-0 record and a gold medal in the 1996 summer games at Atlanta.
The gold medal was the United States' third in five Olympic competitions.
VanDerveer had served as coach of seven previous teams before earning the top job in 1995-1996 as the United States national team coach and the Olympic team coach.
For those efforts, she was honored as the 1996 USA Basketball National Coach of the Year and also selected as the 1996 USOC Elite Basketball Coach of the Year.
This will be VanDerveer's fifth Hall of Fame as she has already made the Indiana University Hall of Fame, Greater Buffalo Hall of Fame, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and Women's Sports Foundation Hall of Fame.
For three years at Indiana University she was on the dean's list and when time allows is a very avid piano player who produced her own CDs.
She has also published a book called Shooting From The Outside, is a three-time national Coach of the Year and has been the Pac 10 Coach of the Year nine times.
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Memorabilia
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Photographs
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Publications
transcribed publications
- Kindberg, Scott. "VanDerveer Loves Her Time Here." Post-Journal (Jamestown), June 17, 2010.
- Eddy, Scott. "Hall of Fame Basketball Coach Keeps Returning To Chautauqua." June 28, 2010.
- Follansbee, Geof (editor). "Excellence, Community, and Belonging: Tara VanDerveer on the Lessons of Chautauqua." Chautauqua Pillars, Fall 2010.
- Kindberg, Scott. "Cardinal Rule." Post-Journal (Jamestown), July 20, 2013.
- McCauley, Janie. "'Grand’ Moment." Post-Journal (Jamestown), February 4, 2017.
- Kindberg, Scott. "Learning From A Legend." Post-Journal (Jamestown), June 23, 2019.
- Kindberg, Scott. "A ‘Laser’ Among ‘Pinballs’." Post-Journal (Jamestown), December 18, 2020.
- Kindberg, Scott. "'Work To Be Done'." Post-Journal (Jamestown), July 21, 2021.
scanned publications
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Videos
Tara VanDerveer Basketball Hall of Fame Induction Speech (2011)
Stanford Women's Basketball: Mic'd Up | Tara VanDerveer at California (2020)
Tara VanDerveer (2021) on her Career and Chautauqua
Websites
- Antonucci, Mike. "Game On." Stanford Magazine. January/February 2010. Accessed February 27, 2019. https://stanfordmag.org/contents/game-on.
- Smith, Michelle. "Historic win creeps up on VanDerveer." ESPN. November 27, 2013. Accessed February 27, 2019. http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/10047280/women-college-basketball-stanford-cardinal-tara-vanderveer-wins-900th-career-game.
- "International Women's Sports Hall of Fame." Women's Sports Foundation. Accessed December 13, 2020. https://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/sports/international-womens-sports-hall-of-fame/.
- "Tara VanDerveer." Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame. Accessed February 27, 2019. https://www.buffalosportshallfame.com/member/tara-vanderveer.
- "Tara VanDerveer." Indiana University Hall of Fame. Accessed December 13, 2022. https://iuhoosiers.com/sports/2015/4/1/GEN_20140101408.
- "Tara VanDerveer." Wikipedia. Accessed February 27, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_VanDerveer
- "Tara VanDerveer." Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. Accessed February 28, 2019. https://www.wbhof.com/famers/tara-vanderveer/.
- Smith, Michelle. "Top 10 moments of Tara VanDerveer's coaching career." ESPN. February 2, 2017. Accessed February 27, 2019. http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/18601199/top-10-moments-tara-vanderveer-coaching-career.
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