Episode 121: Tara VanDerveer

Laughter Permitted with Julie Foudy

Julie Foudy

Sports

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

It's "Story Time with Tara!" Legendary Stanford women's basketball coach Tara VanDerveer joins Laughter Permitted to tell stories from her 45-year coaching career. Tara shares how she was once a mascot, what she said to her team after becoming the winningest coach in NCAA basketball history, what it was like coaching the 1996 gold medal-winning Olympic team and how she's drawn inspiration from her players. Plus, three former Stanford stars join the fun and ask Tara for behind-the-scenes stories. Be prepared to never look at "one second" the same again. If you have a question for Questions Permitted, send Julie and Lynn an email at [email protected].

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0:00.0	The Laughter Permitted podcast is brought to you by Ally.
0:04.0	Do It Right.
0:05.0	Hello party people.
0:07.0	Welcome to Laughter Permitted. I'm Julie Fowdy.
0:09.0	I'm Leno Zowi and it's on the
0:13.0	brink of my favorite time of year.
0:15.0	It's March.
0:16.0	It's Madness.
0:18.0	In Dope Village, we've got a super special guest,
0:22.0	someone who rewrote the history books this past season in college hoops.
0:27.0	She sure did. How lucky are we to get capital L legend of the game at Stanford women's basketball coach
0:35.6	Tara T dog van der Vier. Yes, coach van der Vier on the pod and
0:48.8	She is only the winningest basketball coach ever male or female in NCAA history Tara passed former Duke men's coach, Coach Kay, in January of this year to earn that incredible
0:57.6	distinction and possibly even more impressive Lynn, she honored our interview time and spoke with us the day after losing to USC
1:05.8	in the PAC-12 championship.
1:08.9	Bless her precious little soul for taking a moment in the middle of attorney time craziness to talk with us.
1:13.2	Tara has been at the helm at Stanford since 1985 and has coached the Cardinal 2
1:18.9	three national championship. She is a five-time national coach of the year a member of the National Basketball Hall of Fame and as I mentioned but worth repeating the winning is coach in NCAA college basketball history and at the time of this airing she has drum roll please
1:40.0	one thousand two hundred and fourteen wins in her career.
1:45.0	Good God!
1:47.0	In her more than four decades of coaching,
1:50.0	we figured, Coach has some stories. so we are calling this episode
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