Tara VanDerveer: A Vision for Victory

She is one of the greatest basketball coaches in history, and an inspiration to generations of young women. Tara VanDerveer was head coach of the Stanford Women's Basketball team for 38 seasons. She led her team to three NCAA Championships. She also led the national women's basketball team to a gold medal at the 1996 Olympics. Here she talks eloquently about her lifelong love for the game and about her frustrations early in life, before Title IX, when there were no women's teams available to her. She also talks in detail about her unique and winning approach to coaching, and describes the ways she finds basketball metaphors in everything she does!

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Tara VanDerveer: A Vision for Victory is an episode from What It Takes by Academy of Achievement.

This episode is 00:50:26 long.

This episode was published on Nov 27, 2025.

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