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Nancy Darsch (1951 – 2020), one of the original WNBA coaches
Nancy Darsch was a women’s basketball coach who helped take USA Basketball to gold at the 1984 and 1996 Olympics and was one of the original WNBA coaches.Darsch coached college basketball at the University of Tennessee before becoming head coach at Ohio State University in 1985. She took the Buckeyes to four Big Ten titles and seven NCAA tournament appearances, and her team had the first televised game for Buckeyes women’s basketball, shown on ESPN in 1990.
