Dawn Staley Leaves Temple University For South Carolina
Posted in Candace Dupress, Dawn Staley, John Chaney, Richmond Rage, Temple University, University of South Carolina, University of Virginia on May 8th, 2008 by Michael Tillery
The North Philly basketball legend will be missed on and off the court
This hurts. I’m sure my sadness for the city doesn’t compare to AG’s (Temple grad), but Staley’s presence here was on par with any of the men coaching in the city mainly because Dawn rescued a program that didn’t have a national identity before she took the job. She was 172-80 with six NCAA Tournament appearances. She was a prominent force at Temple, where John Chaney was–and still is–a college basketball coaching legend before he retired in 2006.
Her foundation has helped numerous at risk kids turn it all around.
In eight seasons she won 5 Big 5 Coach of the Year awards.
