UConn ladies’s basketball head coach Geno Auriemma made Division I historical past on Wednesday night time as he captured his 1,two hundredth win of his profession.
Auriemma turns into the third school basketball coach, males’s or ladies’s, to achieve this milestone. He now sits behind Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer (1,206 wins) and Duke’s former coach Mike Krzyzewski (1,202 wins). The UConn coach is the one one to safe all 1,200 wins with one program.
Auriemma hit the milestone the quickest out of those three coaches, as he did so in his thirty ninth season. VanDerveer reached 1,200 wins earlier this season in her forty fifth 12 months of teaching, whereas Krzyzewski hit this many wins in his forty sixth season.
Simply the third to 1,200 wins and he did it the quickest.There’s just one Geno Auriemma 🐐 pic.twitter.com/32wuvjZbVF
— UConn Girls’s Basketball (@UConnWBB) February 8, 2024
Auriemma reminisced about his profession up to now at UConn, saying how he started teaching the crew again when hardly anybody was in attendance. Now 1000’s of followers go to observe the Huskies.
“We helped make one thing occur that by no means existed and nobody ever thought it may occur,” Auriemma mentioned after the sport. “I am fairly pleased with that.”
"We helped make one thing occur that by no means existed and nobody ever thought it may occur"Geno Auriemma talks with @ChelseaSherrod after his 1,two hundredth profession win: pic.twitter.com/AAXEhyPZv7
— UConn on SNY (@SNYUConn) February 8, 2024
UConn’s star ahead Aaliyah Edwards praised her coach after the sport.
“Each win is a credit score to how nice he loves the sport,” Edwards mentioned. “Passionate concerning the sport, however captivated with watching ladies win.”
"Each win is a credit score to how nice he loves the sport – passionate concerning the sport, however captivated with watching ladies win."Aaliyah Edwards with @ChelseaSherrod on Geno Auriemma's 1,two hundredth profession win: pic.twitter.com/zh5IcqgqbB
— UConn on SNY (@SNYUConn) February 8, 2024
Auriemma will proceed including to his successful file as he hasn’t made any plans to retire as of now.