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After main the South Carolina ladies’s basketball workforce to its third nationwide championship, beloved Gamecocks head coach Daybreak Staley celebrated the large win at Walt Disney World Resort the place she loved signature points of interest and took half in a celebratory parade at Magic Kingdom.
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Staley, who grew to become the highest-paid Black ladies’s coach again in 2021, waved at followers whereas using atop a parade float together with her fellow South Carolina assistant coaches and a hoops-ready Minnie Mouse at Magic Kingdom.
With a document of 109-3 over the previous three seasons, the 6-time WNBA All-Star couldn’t assist however coach up Minnie Mouse who confirmed up able to hoop in her personal pink basketball uniform.
As one of many buzziest names in sports activities, it was solely proper for Staley to announce that she was “Going to Disney World!” after ending her “fairytale” season with a championship.
For almost 40 years, gamers have gleefully declared they’re going to the magical vacation spot after profitable a championship in a timeless custom that began when the New York Giants received the Tremendous Bowl in 1987.
This time round, it was Coach Staley having fun with the parks whereas rumors swirled about her probably interviewing for the vacant Charlotte Hornets head teaching job.
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Whereas it’s intriguing to think about Staley main knowledgeable males’s franchise, it doesn’t seem probably primarily based on feedback she made throughout an interview with the Wes & Walker present on Sports activities Radio 92.7 WFNZ in Charlotte.
“My ardour has at all times been younger individuals,” stated Staley who revealed she has no curiosity teaching skilled basketball within the interview, per The State. “I contemplate myself a ‘dream service provider’ for my gamers. And I actually really feel like that is my calling.”
In some unspecified time in the future, we anticipate her to make the leap to the NBA however, till then, we’ll proceed watching her make magic at South Carolina.
