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Message: [QUOTE="schmendrick, post: 4447617, member: 1951"] Disregard the record. Forget her commentating and announcing. In winning the 1999 natty, Peck changed the goalposts on what was possible for Black women coaches. And she paid it forward, growing the game, and making her, imo, HOF-worthy. This, from a 11/21 piece in Swish Appeal. [URL='https://www.swishappeal.com/ncaa/2021/11/17/22781660/ncaaw-carolyn-peck-dawn-staley-black-women-head-coaches-net-national-championship-purdue-1999-2017']Carolyn Peck, Dawn Staley and the "net"-work of Black women coaches[/URL] Reflecting on her 1999 title, [URL='https://theundefeated.com/features/carolyn-peck-elated-for-dawn-staley-as-second-black-coach-to-win-womens-basketball-title/']Peck noted[/URL], “When I was described as the first, that meant there was going to be a second.” *** In 2015, she identified a potential second in Dawn Staley, who had begun to transform a long-middling South Carolina program into a burgeoning powerhouse. Peck shared a piece of her title-winning net with Staley. She later [URL='https://theundefeated.com/features/carolyn-peck-elated-for-dawn-staley-as-second-black-coach-to-win-womens-basketball-title/']recalled telling Staley[/URL], “‘The only thing that I ask is that when you win yours, you pass it on, because you don’t ever have a first unless there’s going to be a second.’” *** Last week, Staley made good on her promise. In fact, she made better than good. Staley sent a piece of her 2017 net to every Black woman head coach in Division I women’s basketball. [/QUOTE]

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