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...
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She's taken on the responsibility of defending some of the best players in the country this season and she has done an excellent job. She's an intelligent defensive player and a really good one-on-one defender.
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She's a great player. We may put two or three players on her, it depends on whether we have to. Candace Parker is a great player, but she's not the entire Tennessee team.
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When I was younger, I wanted to prove myself as a coach. But with the different things we have accomplished, now I don't have to prove myself as a coach. The main thing now is I just want my players to experience success and I want to see the smiles on their faces. I want them to have fun.
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Our players are just like, 'Tell us who we'll play and we'll go play. That's our attitude and that's the way we'll approach it.
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My relationship with my players is the best it's ever been -- I'm loving it and having a blast. And it's not just everything that's happened this year, but last year, too.
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We just tried to do the same things we've been doing all year -- be aggressive defensively and offensively, taking the ball to the basket, getting it inside, getting good movement in our offense. Defensively we threw some different things at them. I thought our kids played really hard.
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We just talked in the locker room that this is great. I congratulated them and asked if this is good enough. And they said, 'No.' They want to do bigger and better things. They're special kids, they have great chemistry and they have fun.
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We're very organized. Really. (The players) know what they're supposed to do. They just do it at a fast pace.
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We're very familiar with each other. We could be playing each other in another week. We just want to stay focused and try to keep doing what we've been doing but rebound the ball a little better.
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I've watched some (television) games this season at my house. Some of these games, it's like watching paint dry. And I don't like that. I want the game to be fun and exciting. I want people to want to watch women's basketball.
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I've been doing this a long time, and I've had a lot of great teams. Trust me, I know, any coach is only as good as their players. I've got great players, and I've got a great staff. They make me look good.
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I've been doing it 31 years, this is nice. I'd like to have it the last game of the season. It happened to me one time before, and there's nothing sweeter than that.
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I've been in this league 20 years and every year we say it can't get any better, but this year we're just heads above all the other conferences.
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Our team will be very motivated by the strength of our bracket. We'll use it as a positive to prepare for every game we play.