Krista & Candice Closing in on Jamie's 3-Point Record

By: Michelle Smith, Chronicle Staff Writer
March 4, 2006

By the end of the Pac-10 tournament Monday night, Stanford's single-season 3-point shooting record might have a new owner -- or two. (More ...)

Pac-10 Honors Wiggins As Player of Year, VanDerveer As Coach of Year

By: Pac-10 Conference
March 2, 2006

Stanford received a multitude of honors today, as the league's 10 head coaches voted and chose sophomore guard Candice Wiggins as the 2005-06 Pacific-10 Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year and Tara VanDerveer as the Pac-10 Coach of the Year, Commissioner Tom Hansen announced today.

Junior center Brooke Smith was selected to the All-Pac-10 team. Forward Jillian Harmon was picked for the Pac-10 All-Freshman team, while Rosalyn Gold-Onwude was an honorable mention selection for the All-Freshman team. (More ...)

Talking With the Stars: Tara VanDerveer

By: Jake Kelman, The Stanford Daily
February 15, 2006

For this week’s “Talking with the Stars,” The Daily proudly presents two-time national champion women’s basketball head coach Tara VanDerveer.

The Stanford Daily: So you recently won your 650th game overall and your 500th with Stanford over 20 seasons. How have you built up the program and how have you kept it so strong? (More ...)

Stanford Tops Cal for VanDerveer's 500th Win

By: David Schoen, Staff Writer, Inside Bay Area
February 12, 2006

Tara VanDerveer has reached plenty of milestones over the past 20 years as the Stanford women's basketball coach, but even she admits her latest accomplishment will stand out.

Playing before a spirited crowd of 4,859, a Haas Pavilion record for women's hoops, the No. 14 Cardinal earned a 55-46 Pac-10 Conference win over Cal on Saturday to give VanDerveer her 500th victory at the school. (Article is no longer available.)

Frosh Point Fills Big Shoes

By: Blair Critchlow, Stanford Daily

February 9, 2006

Gold-Onwude got her first crash-course in VanDerveer honesty two weekends ago in Los Angeles. The Cardinal had just dropped a game to UCLA and were down by six against USC. It seemed that nothing could get going offensively as the opposing defenses began playing a triangle and two, in effect nullifying junior center Brooke Smith and sophomore Wiggins offensively.

“She basically said, ‘If you can’t score, you can’t play.’” Gold-Onwude said. “‘The game is about putting the ball in the basket.’” (More ...)

Tara is 9th to Net No. 650

By: Nancy Gay, San Francisco Chronicle

February 5, 2006

. . . Without much fanfare, coach Tara VanDerveer notched her 650th career victory -- 498 of those coming during her 20 seasons on the Farm -- to become the ninth NCAA Division I women's coach to reach that milestone. But what consumed VanDerveer more Saturday wasn't the landmark number but the game itself. (More ...)

The other Division I coaches to reach that milestone, and their current number of victories are:

• Pat Summitt 902
• Jody Conradt 681
• C. Vivian Stringer 732
• Sue Gunter 708
• Kay Yow 707
• Sylvia Hatchell 705
• Rene Portland 678
• Andy Landers 650

Road to Recovery Not an Easy One for Newlin

By: Blair Critchlow, Stanford Daily

January 26, 2006

. . . the coaching staff feels that the days when the rust will come off and Newlin will begin to dominate again are coming sooner rather than later.

“[Her skills are] there, there’s no doubt,” VanDerveer said. “In my mind, it’s like riding a bicycle. You might wobble a little bit at the beginning, but you just get back on there, and once you learn, she can do the things that we need her to do. (More ...)

Hard Work Pays Off for Senior Guard

By: Christian Torres, Stanford Daily

January 19, 2006

10:15 a.m., four hours before game-time and senior guard Krista Rappahahn was already on the Maples Pavilion three-point line. She was practicing her shot for Saturday’s match against California, but Rappahahn’s routine of attempting more than 100 three-pointers is nothing unusual for her — she does it almost every day. (More ...)

Wonder Wiggins

By: Mike Eubanks, Bootleg.com

January 8, 2006

Just in case you had ideas that Candice Wiggins was in some kind of sophomore slump, guess again. The All-American guard was a one-woman wrecking crew Saturday night in Eugene when she lifted Stanford to a difficult win at Mac Court, where the Cardinal had not won since 2003. Her 37 points and 14 field goals were career highs, and her performance was every bit as big as the numbers suggest. (More ...)

Tara's Cardinal Rule

By: Bob Rodman, The Register-Guard, Eugene OR

Janurary 7, 2006

Now and then, in those ever-so-brief moments squashed into her women's basketball world, Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer stops the clock.

Not so much to regroup as to reflect. Even if ever so briefly.

"When I first took this job," she said on Friday, amid preparations for tonight's 7 o'clock Pac-10 Conference collision with Oregon at McArthur Court, "I was told it was a graveyard job."

That was 20 years ago. (More ...)