Yow’s goodbye crafted in her selfless way.

Then, as in death, Yow refused to let anything be about her. It was all about others – the people around her, even the people she didn’t know or could never know.http://www.charlotteobserver.com/college_hoops/story/507840.html

Wolfpack coming to grips with Yow’s death.

Kay Yow sometimes said that basketball offered an escape from her long fight against cancer. Now Yow is gone, and the players and coaches she left behind at North Carolina State don’t know if they can find a similar solace in the sport they love. “We have no idea, do we?” interim coach Stephanie Glance [...]

Abby Waner: Strength and courage Yow’s legacy.

This past Saturday, I stood among 9,033 other people as the Duke men’s team prepared to take on Maryland. Before the game, a moment of silence for Kay Yow was preceded by a collective intake of breath as the sold-out arena was shocked by the announcement of her death. The tremor that circulated throughout that [...]

Yow’s absence felt as players, coaches, refs, fans honor her.

Women’s college basketball games were played Sunday, though clearly foremost on the minds of participants and observers were thoughts of Kay Yow. The pioneering N.C. State coach died Saturday after a long battle with cancer. She was 66. That disheartening news reverberated around the women’s basketball community and throughout the nation, prompting coaches, players and [...]

Glance brings own style: Feisty N.C. State assistant upholds Yow’s principles./updated from Jan. 11

When N.C. State’s women’s basketball team boards the bus to North Carolina’s Smith Center this morning, the staff will keep the front seat to the right of the driver empty for coach Kay Yow. Yow, who is in her 34th season at State, announced on Tuesday she was taking a leave of absence for the [...]

Coach Yow Peacefully Passes Saturday Morning.

One of the most beloved figures in NC State history and one of the most respected coaches in the nation, Women’s Basketball Coach Kay Yow, died peacefully this morning after a long, heroic battle with breast cancer. Yow, 66, had been supported by her family and her staff in the last several days [...]

Yow didn’t intend to be a pioneer.

All those years ago, in the back yard of the family’s simple Gibsonville home, Kay Yow never envisioned herself as a trailblazer. No matter how often she shot at the tall goal on the telephone pole, Yow assumed that her high-scoring basketball career would end before high-school graduation. That was the way of the times. [...]

Few coaches won more, none won more gracefully.

She was two years out of graduate school and just beginning to carve out a career as women’s basketball coach and athletics coordinator at tiny Elon College in North Carolina when the groundbreaking piece of legislation known as Title IX was passed in 1972. But to pioneers like Yow, just as important as the promise [...]

Susan Yow coaches on day of older sister’s death.

For Susan Yow, there was no other option than to coach on the day her older sister finally succumbed to cancer. Susan was certain it was no coincidence she faced off against one of the best players her sister ever coached. Hours after Kay Yow died after a long battle with breast cancer, Susan Yow paced the [...]

Yow’s story touched players, fans.

From childhood until her final days, Yow engaged in the game she loved, but eventually she transcended it. In a hotly competitive sport, her gentle manner taught mutual respect. And in recent years, her energy drained and her features drawn by cancer, her presence courtside reminded all in the arena that no matter how urgent [...]