Researching Dawn Staley
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 981 people with the Staley surname? In that year Staley was ranked number 2608 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Dawn means "Dawn, daybreak" and is of English origin.
Records of Dawn Staley on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Dawn Staley and the Staley Family History
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 1497 people with the Staley surname in the UK? Staley is now ranked number 2688 for popularity in the UK. |
Staley Genealogy Databases
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Staley Forums
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 21268 people with the Staley surname in the USA? Staley is ranked number 150 for popularity in the USA. |
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Dawn Staley
Dawn Michelle Staley (born May 4, 1970) is an American basketball Hall of Fame player and coach, who is currently the head coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks. Staley is a four-time Olympic gold medalist, winning three as a player and one as head coach. Staley was elected to carry the United States flag at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics. After playing point guard for the University of Virginia under Debbie Ryan, and winning the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, she went to play professionally in the American Basketball League and the WNBA. In 2011, Staley was voted in by fans as one of the Top 15 players in WNBA history. Staley was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012. She was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013.
While still a WNBA player, she started coaching the Temple University Owls women's basketball team in 2000. In eight years at Temple, she led the program to six NCAA tournaments, three regular season conference championships, and four conference tournament titles.
On May 7, 2008, she was named head coach for women's basketball at the University of South Carolina. Staley built South Carolina from the ground up, over the following six seasons, she improved her program's record every year, culminated by winning the SEC in 2013–2014. In late 2014 her team achieved the program's first #1 ranking, making her only the second individual to both play on and coach a #1 ranked team. Staley has gone on to lead South Carolina to five SEC regular season championships, six SEC tournament championships, seven Sweet Sixteens, three Final Fours, and on April 2, 2017, she guided the South Carolina Gamecocks to the program's first NCAA Women's Basketball National Championship.
On April 2, 2020, Staley became the first person to win the Naismith Award as a player, and also as a coach. She also won the other three major National Coach of the Year awards, after she led her team to a 32 win season and a final ranking of #1 in both major polls, before the Tournament was cancelled.
In the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Staley won her first Gold Medal as Head coach for Team USA, fourth overall, winning all six games.
Staley served as the United States women's national team head coach from 2017–2021 finishing with a perfect 45–0 record, before returning full time to South Carolina.
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