Anne Donovan
Anne Donovan ( born November 1, 1961 in Ridgewood, New Jersey) is an American basketball coach and former player. She was an active played at the center position and won with the U.S. national team in 1984 and 1988 Olympic Gold and 1983 runner-up and 1986 World Champion. After her playing days she has coached numerous college teams in the 1990s and then became the first female coach of a WNBA champion team. Since 2006 she has - after it has already been an assistant several times since 1997 - the coach of the U.S. women 's basketball team, which could lead to the bronze medal at the 2006 World Cup. Donovan is a member of both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.
As Active
Donovan began her career in 1979 as a college player at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, she led the team of the University in four years three times in the Final Four tournament at the U.S. championships and a championship title. She was elected to various All-American selections and chosen in 1983 as the first woman to the Naismith College Player of the Year. Your 801 block during their college years are still valid today record for college players.
After her college graduation, she played for five years for the basketball team of Shizuoka, Japan, and for one year in Modena, Italy, before she resigned in 1989 from active competition.
Your greatest success Donovan with the American team; still in their first year of college Donovan was nominated to the U.S. selection for the tournament at the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980, but did not because of the U.S. boycott of the games used, but they won the 1984 and 1988 Olympic gold medal. In addition, Donovan in 1983 and 1986 Vice World Champion, and 1983 and 1987 U.S. champion.
As a trainer
After the end of her active career she worked from 1990 to 1995 as assistant coach of the team of her alma mater, Old Dominion University before it was in 1995 head coach of the basketball team at East Carolina University. Because of their successful work, she was Assistant Trainer 1997 the U.S. national team - which they remained during her work as a professional trainer - and 1998 head coach of the Philadelphia Rage of the American Basketball League, but soon ceased the operation of gambling. In 2000, she was employed as a transitional coach of the Indiana Fever in the WNBA, a year later she was then coach of the Charlotte Sting regular, which led to the final series of the WNBA in the first year. After two years she moved in 2003 to the Seattle Storm, with whom she won in 2004 as the first female coach the WNBA Championship. After the 2006 season, she left Seattle and was used as a new basketball head coach of the USA. In 2006 she won as a coach bronze medalist and led the team to the Summer Olympic Games in 2008.