CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Friends of Harvard Women's Basketball Head Coach, Kathy Delaney-Smith, will be honored as the 2020 Positive Impact Legend by the Positive Coaching Alliance next Thursday, Dec. 17 at 7 p.m. EST.
Delaney-Smith will be honored at The Jersey Series: PCA's Positive Impact Celebration over Zoom. The event will feature discussions with Delaney-Smith about what it means to wear "the jersey", along with celebrating Delaney-Smith's impact and accomplishments. Join emcee ESPN's Jackie MacMullan and alum Allison Feaster '98, wear your favorite jersey and join us for a night of celebration.
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Delaney-Smith, an inspirational coach, leader and advocate for gender equity, will be honored for her tireless commitment to equity and to the development of outstanding athletes and people. After an extraordinarily successful high school coaching career at Westwood with a 204-31 record, Delaney-Smith has been at the helm of the Harvard women's basketball program for 38 seasons. Developing championship teams and well-rounded student-athletes, Delaney-Smith is the all-time winningest head coach in Ivy League history with a 617-420 overall record.
Delaney-Smith has won a number of awards during her career, including the Gilda Radner Award for demonstrating hope and determination in facing cancer and the WBCA's Carol Eckman Award for her exceptional sportsmanship, commitment to student-athletes, honesty, ethics, courage and dedication to purpose. Making an impact in the world post-graduation, Delaney-Smith's alumnae have gone on to become CEOs, the Massachusetts' Attorney General, and the Boston Celtics' Director of Player Development to name a few.
Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) is a national nonprofit whose mission is to develop "Better Athletes, Better People' through sports. PCA combines top coaches' best practices with sports psychology to develop powerful resources for everyone involved in youth sports—kids, coaches, parents, and sports leaders. PCA is committed to supporting the development of character, grit, discipline, teamwork, resilience, and more in young athletes. Done Right, Sports Teach and Sports Unite. PCA gains support from a National Advisory Board comprised of top coaches, athletes, leaders, sports and developmental psychologists, and academics who share PCA's mission, including Harvard's own Katey Stone and Tommy Amaker, New Englanders Kristine Lilly, Tom Beckett, Isaiah Kacyvenski, Brad Stevens, Buddy Teevens, Jerry York, and from across the country, Carol Dweck, Steve Kerr, Doc Rivers, Steve Young, and more.
