STANFORD, Calif.—Tara VanDerveer will see her legacy at Stanford remain on display moving forward.
The university announced Thursday that it is naming the floor at its home basketball venue, Maples Pavilion, in honor of the Hall of Fame women’s coach.
Ms. VanDerveer, 70, retired after winning the Pacific 12 Conference regular-season championship this year, her 38th leading the Cardinal. She guided Stanford to 14 NCAA Final Fours, winning national championships in 1990, 1992, and 2021.
Ms. VanDerveer began her coaching career at Idaho (1978–80) and also coached at Ohio State (1980–85). In January, she surpassed former Duke men’s Coach Mike Krzyzewski to become the winningest college basketball coach of all time.
Ms. VanDerveer finished with a 1,216–271 record, including a 1,064–220 mark with the Cardinal.
In addition to dedicating the Tara VanDerveer Court at Maples Pavilion in November, Stanford is endowing a women’s basketball assistant coaching position in Ms. VanDerveer’s name.
“This endowment will go a long way to strengthening the future of Stanford women’s basketball,” Ms. VanDerveer said in a statement. “I have many wonderful memories of leading the women’s basketball program at Maples Pavilion. It’s an honor, and a little surreal, to know that my name will be linked to both in these ways, and I look forward to celebrating with all our fans this fall.”
The honor enables Ms. VanDerveer to follow in the footsteps of one of her mentors, the late former Tennessee women’s basketball Coach Pat Summitt, whose name adorns the Lady Vols’ home court at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, Tenn.
Stanford hired one of Ms. VanDerveer’s longtime assistant coaches, Kate Paye, last month to take over as head coach. Ms. Paye, who played for the Cardinal from 1991–95 and was a member of the 1992 NCAA title team, began working under Ms. VanDerveer in 2007.
