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Kathy Delaney-Smith
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Kathy Delaney-Smith is a retired American college basketball coach. She retired at the end of the 2021–22 season after 40 seasons as head coach of the women's basketball team at Harvard University.[1][lower-alpha 1] At the time of her retirement, she was the longest-tenured women's head coach at a single school in NCAA Division I.[lower-alpha 2] With Harvard, Delaney-Smith had her 600th win as an NCAA Division I coach in March 2019.
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Alma mater | Bridgewater State |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1970–1982 | Westwood HS |
1982–2022 | Harvard |
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Overall | 630–434 |
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In 1998, Harvard beat Stanford in the first round of the NCAA tournament, the first time in men's or women's Division I NCAA history that a sixteenth seeded team had beaten a number 1 seed.[2]