Kathy Delaney-Smith

Kathy Delaney-Smith is a retired American college basketball coach. She retired at the end of the 2021–22 season after 40 seasons as head coach of the women's basketball team at Harvard University. At the time of her retirement, she was the longest-tenured women's head coach at a single school in NCAA Division I. With Harvard, Delaney-Smith had her 600th win as an NCAA Division I coach in March 2019. In 1998, Harvard beat Stanford in the first round of the NCAA tournament, the first time in men's or women's Division I NCAA history that a sixteenth seeded team had beaten a number 1 seed. Early years Delaney–Smith grew up in the Boston suburb of Newton, Massachusetts and is one of six children. She attended Sacred Heart High School and became the first female in Massachusetts basketball history to score 1000 points. Delaney-Smith joked that this was because the coach was her mother who made her teammates pass to her.