Some Tara history

Jake Curtis takes us back to 1976 at Ohio State when Tara was, "living on food stamps, residing in a friend’s trailer and drawing no salary, all for the opportunity to coach college basketball." Read more...

An article in the Big Ten website recounts the story of Ohio State's supremacy in the 1980's when they captured the first five official Big Ten women's basketball championships. Tara was the head coach for the first three of those five years. Read more...

Before Stanford's game against Ohio State at the 2009 NCAA Regional, the Columbus Dispatch published reminiscences by one of Tara's players at Ohio State about Tara's brutal conditioning regimen. The payoff, she said, was that "we never finished a game more tired than the other team. Never." Read more...

Before Ohio State, Tara guided the University of Idaho to a 42-14 record (.750) winning percentage in her two seasons with the Vandals. She guided the team into the AIAW Tournament (which preceded the NCAA Tournament) in her second season, before leaving to coach Ohio State.

And before Idaho and her stint as junior varsity coach at Ohio State with which Jake begins his story, Tara attended Indiana University, where she was a three-year letter winner on the IU women's basketball team in 1973, 1974 and 1975 as a starting guard...earned invitations to tryout camps for the World Games in 1972 and the Olympic Team in 1974...a Dean's List scholar at IU for three years...