10/19/11 – Joanne P. McCallie, 12:00, Croasdaile Country Club
The guest speaker for our upcoming meeting will be Joanne P. McCallie, the Head Women’s Basketball Coach at Duke. The ACC Coach of the Year in 2010, McCallie enters her fifth season at the helm of the Blue Devils’ program. Last year, McCallie guided Duke to its 7th ACC Championship and 10th regular season ACC title in school history.
In just four years, Coach P has guided the Blue Devils to an 114-20 overall record, a 45-11 mark in Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) action and four NCAA Tournament selections, including a No. 1 seed in 2009 and Elite Eight appearances in 2010 and 2011, while collecting her first two ACC regular season and Tournament titles in 2010 and 2011. Her 80.4 winning percentage in ACC contests ranks first on the conference’s all-time coaching charts. Meanwhile, Coach P’s winning percentage of 85.1 in all games is first among active coaches in the ACC and second in the conference’s all-time coaching records.
A year ago, McCallie and the Blue Devils netted a 32-4 overall record marking her second straight 30-win season at the helm at Duke. The Blue Devils posted 10 victories against ranked opponents, including wins against eventual national champion Texas A&M, 4th-ranked Xavier, 10th-ranked Kentucky and 10th-ranked DePaul.
Duke’s 2011 schedule features home games against Connecticut and Purdue, and road games to Kentucky, Temple and BYU, as well as participation in the “Junkaroo Jam” in the Bahamas.
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Mark Your Calendar
11/2/11 – Mike Krzyzewski, Head Men’s Basketball Coach, Duke University and USA Basketball
11/16/11 – Hugo Germino Award
12/7/11 – Charles Clotfelter, Author, Big-Time Sports in American Universities