December 19, 2008

A holiday from cupcakes

Joseph Persons (The State) reports that Dawn Staley, in her first year as coach of the South Carolina Gamecocks, inherited a schedule from former coach Susan Walvius that includes each of last season's Final Four participants, beginning tonight with Stanford.

Despite taking over a team with only three seniors, Staley never considered calling Cardinal coach Tara VanDerveer, her coach on the 1996 Olympic team, to ask about pushing the game back a year or two.

"I welcome the challenge no matter what our personnel is because I think you can learn a whole lot about yourself playing against some of the best teams in the country," Staley said. Read more...

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