The guest speaker for our upcoming meeting will be Joanne P. McCallie, Head Women’s Basketball Coach at Duke. The ACC Coach of the Year in 2010, 2012 and 2013, McCallie enters her ninth season at the helm of the Blue Devils’ program.
In just eight years, “Coach P” has guided the program to a 225-53 overall record, a 100-22 mark in ACC action and eight NCAA Tournament selections, including a No. 1 seed in 2009 and four straight Elite Eight appearances from 2010-13. She led Duke to four consecutive ACC regular season titles in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 and three ACC Championships in 2010, 2011 and 2013. Her 82.0 winning percentage in ACC contests ranks first on the conference’s all-time coaching charts, while her winning percentage of 80.9 in all games is first among active coaches in the ACC.
Prior to coming to Duke, McCallie spent seven years at Michigan State University. While piloting the Spartans to a nationally elite level, McCallie, the 2005 Associated Press Coach of the Year, guided the Spartans to their first ever NCAA Final Four and national championship game appearance as well as their first ever NCAA Elite Eight and repeat Sweet Sixteen appearances, the programs’ second Big Ten regular season title and first ever Big Ten Tournament Championship in 2005.
The former Joanne Palombo played her collegiate basketball at Northwestern from 1984-87. She still ranks seventh in Wildcat history with 378 career assists. McCallie graduated from Northwestern in 1987 with a degree in political science and earned a master’s degree in business administration from Auburn in 1990.
The McCallie family includes husband John, daughter Madeline (Maddie – 21) and son John Wyatt (Jack – 15). Maddie will be a junior on the women’s basketball team at Elon in 2015-16, after transferring from the Miami of Ohio.
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Mark Your Calendars!
10/5/16 – Lee Pace, Sports Historian
10/19/16 – Brian Kersey, Director of Basketball Officials, ACC
11/2/16 – Roy Williams, Head Men’s Basketball Coach, UNC