//USC’s Dawn Staley named 2020 Werner Ladder Naismith Women’s College Coach of the Year

USC’s Dawn Staley named 2020 Werner Ladder Naismith Women’s College Coach of the Year

(WSPA) – The University of South Carolina’s Women’s Basketball Coach Dawn Staley has been named the 2020 Werner Ladder Naismith Women’s College Coach of the Year.

According to an NCAA article, Staley makes history as the first men’s or women’s honoree to have won the Werner Ladder Naismith Coach of the Year, as well as winning the Citizen Naismith Trophy for Player of the Year.

In the article, Staley received the honor twice while playing at the University of Virginia in 1991 and 1992.

Dayton’s Anthony Grant was also named the Men’s College Coach of the Year.

Read the full article here.

The @NaismithTrophy Coach of the Year: 𝐃𝐚𝐰𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐲!

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— NCAA Women’s Basketball (@ncaawbb) April 2, 2020

In ’91, she won