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June Daugherty, former women’s basketball coach, dies at 64
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOSAugust 5, 2021 GMT
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) June Daugherty, the former Washington and Washington State women’s basketball coach who led the Huskies to seven NCAA Tournaments, has died. She was 64.
Washington State said Daugherty died Monday at her Boise, Idaho, home.
A basketball fixture in the Northwest for nearly three decades, Daugherty was head coach at Boise State (1989-96), Washington (1996-2007) and Washington State (2007-18). She had a 443-441 record and went to the NCAA Tournament eight times.
In Daugherty’s 11 years at Washington State, the Cougars went 130-217 overall and 56-141 in league play. Daugherty ended a run of 17 straight losing seasons by going 17-17 in 2013-14 and had her first winning season one year later, going 17-15.