Sylvia Hatchell
Sylvia Hatchell
Sylvia Rhyne Hatchellis the head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently has the third most career wins in NCAA women's basketball history, behind only former Tennessee coach Pat Summitt and Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer. She competed with USA Basketball as the head coach of the 1994 Jones Cup Team that won the gold in Taipei...
finds kid tough
She's a winner. She's just a tough little kid and she finds a way to win.
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I'm pulling for George Mason because they beat our guys. The more they win, it makes our guys look good.
fell love work
It was her attitude, her demeanor, her smile, her work ethic. I just fell in love with her.
great proud
I'm really proud of our team. I thought we had a great year. Today, we just didn't play well.
proud team
I'm just proud of our team for being the regular-season ACC champs.
happy kids work
I'm happy for our kids. They work really hard. But we know we can't relax. Everybody's going to be after us. And we want to be No. 1 at the end of the season.
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I've got great kids, they're playing their hearts out for each other and for me. We're healthy, we're an exciting team, we've got great chemistry. This is the kind of team a coach dreams of because these young ladies are like my daughters.
great mistakes slow team
It was a great team effort. We were able to play a lot of kids. We made some mistakes -- we had way too many turnovers (22) -- but we didn't slow down.
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I want the game to be exciting. I want people to want to watch women's basketball. It shows our skills and abilities. I hope other teams will start to play like we do.
slow throw
I want it to be exciting, up and down the floor. We can play bad, throw it all over the gym, but we're not going to slow it down.
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I want people to fall in love with women's basketball, and that's one reason why we go up and down the floor. I want them to score a lot of points and make it exciting and fun.
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At times we looked pretty good out there, at times we were a little ragged. We had five kids in double figures, and that balance is a strength of our team.
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The last few days have been wild, to put it mildly. It's been great, the attention, the enthusiasm over the team and our ranking. But everybody's going to give us their best shot.
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It will be like a national championship game because you're going to have two teams out there that are just going to be incredible, talented, athletic, skilled, up-and-down the floor defense and blocked shots. You are going to see a lot of great basketball (today).