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Stanley resigns Three-time national champion coach steps down at Cal
Posted: Tuesday March 14, 2000 11:47 AM
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Marianne Stanley resigned as coach of the California women's basketball team Monday after compiling a 35-75 record in four seasons with the Bears. Stanley has a 415-224 record in 21 seasons as a head coach, including three national titles at Old Dominion in the late 1970s and mid-1980s. She also coached at Pennsylvania, Southern California and Stanford. Stanley, who led Cal to an 11-17 record this season, said she was interested in remaining a coach and was looking at several other coaching jobs. Stanley, who led Stanford to the Final Four during one year as a co-coach there while Tara Van Derveer coached the U.S. national team, said it was very difficult to turn around a program that now has had seven consecutive losing seasons. "The place in which I started was a difficult place, the talent pool in the program at that time was down," she said in a conference call. "There wasn't a history of winning, and you don't come out of that overnight. "I do think the program is in a lot better position now than when I arrived. I would have liked to have seen the program achieve more, win more." In addition to playing and coaching on five national championship teams, Stanley captured headlines when she was dismissed by Southern California in 1993 after asking for a pay raise to put her on a level with men's coach George Raveling. After being fired, she filed an $8 million lawsuit against the school and athletic director Mike Garrett alleging discrimination and retaliation during contract negotiations. A federal judge dismissed the suit in 1995, and an appeals court upheld that ruling last June.
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