Kay Yow: Hall of Fame Women's Basketball Coach Dies at 66

Kay Yow was an American women's basketball coach at North Carolina State University. Born on March 14, 1942, in Gibsonville, North Carolina, she began coaching at a high school.

She coached NC State from 1975 to 2009 and won 737 games. She led the U.S. women's team to the gold medal at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987. She was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002.

She founded the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund. In 2007 the court at Reynolds Coliseum was named in her honor. Yow died of breast cancer in Cary, North Carolina, on January 24, 2009, at age 66.

Achievements: Olympic gold medal coach (1988), Naismith Hall of Fame (2002), 737 wins.

Birth: March 14, 1942 - Gibsonville, North Carolina.

Profession: Basketball coach.

Interesting Facts: Her cancer fund has raised millions for research.