June Daugherty
June Daugherty
June Daugherty is an American women's college basketball coach, currently serving as head coach at Washington State University. turned around the WSU women's basketball program by bringing in top-ranked recruiting classes, has improved attendance numbers and has overseen student-athletes who place premiums on academics and community service. Prior to becoming a head coach, Daugherty served as an assistant coach at Kent State Universityand Stanford Universityunder Tara Vanderveer. During the 2011-2012 season, Daugherty led the Cougars to one of the most...
excited good league lose room
We're excited to find out who's next. It was disappointing to lose those games, but that's just how good this league is. The more you play each other, there's not a lot of room for error. That's basketball.
came deserves focus great guys hats played proud ready success team
I'm just so proud and happy. This is why we play the preseason we play. We had success in the preseason and these guys came ready to play. Focus has been awesome, hats off to the seniors; the whole team deserves this -- but especially the seniors. This is a great win, and they all played like it too.
eighteen game gym months open organized playing time work
Eighteen months is a long time to just be out there playing in an open gym and not being coached. Not being able to work on your conditioning, your strength, your game the way you would be in an organized and disciplined situation.
giving home knew obviously players streak week
It was huge. I thought that the players responded well all week in practice, obviously disappointed in giving up one at home after the streak that we had, and we knew that we did not play to our potential.
grown happy incredible mentally opportunity three ups
These three have been through incredible amounts of adversity, incredible amounts of joy, ups and downs. But they have been so mentally tough. They have grown up before our eyes. For them to have the opportunity to go back to the big dance, I'm just really happy for them.
great proud team
I'm very, very proud of the team and the program. It's great to be back in the big dance.
came energy great team tremendous
It was a great win. I thought the team came out with tremendous energy today.
court fighting fights-and-fighting frustrated hard kept leave oregon saying seemed
It just seemed like we weren't fighting hard, we were getting frustrated at how well Oregon was doing and not converting it into our energy. We made some adjustments defensively and we just kept saying if we go out there and fight hard and leave it on the court we'll be happy.
fought kids role took underdog
We kind of took on the underdog role all year. And these kids got better and fought hard.
anyway asked ready twice
Twice I asked her if she was ready to go back. She said, 'No,' but I put her back in anyway and she responded.
doubt high low race tight
There's no doubt that it's huge. But at the same time, you can't get too high and you can't get too low with the race being as tight as it is.
practice teams
These AAU teams are amazing. They practice all year. They're well coached. They play a lot of games.
anyone contagious flu kids send seniors stay
This flu is so contagious that they want anyone who has it to stay away. But our kids showed a lot of guts. They wanted to send the seniors out with a win, and they did.
bit game physically tired
A little bit of it was they were getting tired physically because the game was so up and down. But we were rotating a lot of kids. We just have to keep getting better.