"Almost everybody is dealing with something," Yow said in a 2006 interview, referring to her battles with breast cancer.
"We're all faced with a lot of tough issues that we're dealing with," she said. "We know we need to just come to the court and let that be our catharsis in a way. You can't bring it on the court with you, but we can all just think of basketball as an escape for a few hours."
Yow won more than 700 games in her coaching career. In 1975, Yow became North Carolina State University's first full-time women's basketball coach and also coached women's volleyball and softball. Three years later, for their first season of league play, her women's basketball team earned the ACC championship. She coached the U.S. Olympic team to a gold medal in 1988, won four Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championships, earned 20 NCAA tournament bids and reached the Final Four in 1998.
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