Guru Report: Yale Mourning the Passing of Former Coach and WBB Hall of Famer Louis O’Neal
By Mel Greenberg @womhoopsguru
In doing my annual fall update contact lists for the coming season l saw Yale noting the recent passing of Louise O’Neal, one of my original coaches on the AP Women’s Poll voting board.
I’ve copied the school website obituary which follows.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale Athletics mourns the passing of Louise O'Neal, the Women's Basketball Hall of Famer who coached the Yale women's basketball team to an Ivy League Championship in 1979. She passed away this past weekend in Plymouth, Mass.
O'Neal is one of a group of coaching pioneers who paved the way for women's college basketball as we know it today. From 1962-76, she served as head women's basketball coach at Southern Connecticut State College, where she led her teams to an impressive 144-37 record and eight straight appearances in the National Women's Collegiate Championships.
She then served three years as the Assistant Director of Athletics and head women's basketball coach at Yale, where she took the Bulldogs from a previous-best finish of fifth place to an Ivy League title in three years. Her Yale teams qualified for postseason play in each of her three seasons at the helm (1976-77 to 1978-79). She coached players who were selected for the U.S. Olympic Team that won the silver medal in Montreal in 1976; three U.S. National Teams competing at the World Games; the Pan-American Games; and the World University Games.
O'Neal's final coaching role was as the coach of the U.S. National Team that won the gold medal at the 1979 International Tournament at Squaw Valley in California.
In 1979, O'Neal left coaching and served as Senior Associate Director of Athletics at Dartmouth College until she became Director of Athletics at Wellesley College in 1990. In 1994 the National Association for Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators (NACWAA), now known as Women Leaders in College Sports, selected O'Neal as National Administrator of the Year.
O'Neal was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017, the same year she was named a Legend of Ivy League Basketball. She is also a member of the New England Basketball Hall of Fame, the Connecticut Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, the Southern Connecticut State University Athletic Hall of Fame and the Wellesley College Athletics Hall of Fame.
O'Neal was also a recipient of the Women Leaders in College Sports Lifetime Achievement Award and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Jostens-Berenson Service Award for lifelong commitment and service to the game of women's basketball.
O'Neal is one of a group of coaching pioneers who paved the way for women's college basketball as we know it today. From 1962-76, she served as head women's basketball coach at Southern Connecticut State College, where she led her teams to an impressive 144-37 record and eight straight appearances in the National Women's Collegiate Championships.
She then served three years as the Assistant Director of Athletics and head women's basketball coach at Yale, where she took the Bulldogs from a previous-best finish of fifth place to an Ivy League title in three years. Her Yale teams qualified for postseason play in each of her three seasons at the helm (1976-77 to 1978-79). She coached players who were selected for the U.S. Olympic Team that won the silver medal in Montreal in 1976; three U.S. National Teams competing at the World Games; the Pan-American Games; and the World University Games.
O'Neal's final coaching role was as the coach of the U.S. National Team that won the gold medal at the 1979 International Tournament at Squaw Valley in California.
In 1979, O'Neal left coaching and served as Senior Associate Director of Athletics at Dartmouth College until she became Director of Athletics at Wellesley College in 1990. In 1994 the National Association for Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators (NACWAA), now known as Women Leaders in College Sports, selected O'Neal as National Administrator of the Year.
O'Neal was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017, the same year she was named a Legend of Ivy League Basketball. She is also a member of the New England Basketball Hall of Fame, the Connecticut Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, the Southern Connecticut State University Athletic Hall of Fame and the Wellesley College Athletics Hall of Fame.
O'Neal was also a recipient of the Women Leaders in College Sports Lifetime Achievement Award and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Jostens-Berenson Service Award for lifelong commitment and service to the game of women's basketball.
posted by Mel Greenberg | 2:20 PM
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