Schenectady Graduate Breaks NCAA Record Former Schenectady resident and UAlbany basketball player Tara VanDerveer passed Pat Summitt for the most career victories all time in women's basketball history. VanDerveer's Stanford Cardinal defeated Pacific on Tuesday night 104-61. The win was number one thousand ninety-ninth victory in the legendary forty two year coaching career for VanDerveer.
VanDerveer was a 1971 graduate of the now closed Milne School in Albany. Following her stint in high school, VanDerveer played for one season for the UAlbany basketball before transferring to Indiana to finish her collegiate playing career. In an interview with the Time Union in 1990 , Coach VanDerveer reflected on her time in the Capital Region. Unfortunately it is not the answer Schenectady residents may have hoped to hear: