[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 15 (Monday, January 26, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S823]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          REMEMBERING KAY YOW

  Mr. BURR. Mr. President, I rise today to honor the life of Kay Yow, 
Head Coach of the North Carolina State University Women's Basketball 
Team.
  I join North Carolina State University and the entire women's 
basketball community in mourning her passing.
  My heartfelt thoughts and prayers go out to Kay's family--her 
sisters, Susan and Deborah and her brother Ronnie--and to the North 
Carolina State University community that adored her.
  Coach Yow had countless accomplishments on and off the basketball 
court that I can't even begin to do justice to as I stand here today.
  After 38 years of coaching, she had amounted many achievements that 
everyone in the women's basketball family will admire for generations 
to come.
  A native of Gibsonville, NC, Coach Yow started the North Carolina 
State University Women's basketball team in 1975 and was the school's 
only head coach in its women's basketball team's 34 year history.
  Compiling over 700 victories during the course of her career with a 
record of 737 wins and only 344 losses over 38 years, she led her teams 
to 20 NCAA tournaments, 11 of which made it to the ``Sweet 16,'' and in 
1998 she led the Lady Wolfpack to ``Final Four.''
  Coach Yow also captured 5 Atlantic Coast Conference, ACC, regular 
season championships and 4 ACC Tournament titles.
  Off the court, Coach Yow was a friend, a mentor, and a leader. She 
was very active in the Kay Yow/Women's Basketball Coaches Association 
Cancer Fund, in partnership with the V Foundation, committed to finding 
cures for cancer.
  She also was heavily involved in the creation of the ``Hoops 4 
Hope,'' a basketball game played to raise awareness and help find a 
cure for breast cancer.
  The North Carolina State University student body embraced Coach Yow, 
and her colleagues recognized her instrumental contributions to the 
sport in which she became and remains an icon.
  Coach Yow will be deeply missed, but the inspiration and the memories 
that she created will live forever.
  Again, I send my sincerest condolences to Coach Yow's family, her 
athletes, her fans, and her friends.

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