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Stanford's VanDerveer earns 1,000th career win

Malika Andrews

On Friday night, Tara VanDerveer joined Tennesee’s late Pat Summit and Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski as the only coaches in Division I basketball with 1,000 career wins.

Her 1,000th win came over USC in Maples Pavillion in front of screaming fans waving cutouts of VanDerveer’s face.

Photo from the AP.
Photo from the AP.

This is just one of many accomplishments that VanDerveer has achieved in her 38-year coaching career. She has won two NCAA titles with Standford in 1990 and 1992, has made 11 Final Four appearances and has an Olympic gold medal. She snapped juggernaut U-Conn.’s 90-game winning streak in 2010 and eliminated them from the NCAA Tournament in 2008.

People all over the basketball world took to Twitter to congratulate VanDerveer:

Even the Commissioner weighed in:

One Stanford football player pointed out just how special this accomplishment is:

Former Stanford players weighed in:

And coaches did too:

Even the broadcast crew got into it:

And broadcasters who used to play for VanDerveer:

Now she has two days before going for 1,001 on Monday against UCLA.