Sylvia Hatchell
Sylvia Hatchell
Sylvia Rhyne Hatchellis the head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently has the third most career wins in NCAA women's basketball history, behind only former Tennessee coach Pat Summitt and Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer. She competed with USA Basketball as the head coach of the 1994 Jones Cup Team that won the gold in Taipei...
happy kids work
I'm happy for our kids. They work really hard. But we know we can't relax. Everybody's going to be after us. And we want to be No. 1 at the end of the season.
hard love proud
That's why I love these kids, they play so hard for me. They play hard for each other, but I'm the coach, so I think they play hard for me, too. I'm really proud of that.
honor won
It's an honor to play them and to have won this game.
court saw threw throwing
I about fainted .... When I saw that pass, I was like, 'Ah man,' because I thought she was throwing it out of the court because she threw it so far.
coach good great trust
I've been doing this a long time, and I've had a lot of great teams. Trust me, I know, any coach is only as good as their players. I've got great players, and I've got a great staff. They make me look good.
balance double five good kids looked strength
At times we looked pretty good out there, at times we were a little ragged. We had five kids in double figures, and that balance is a strength of our team.
biggest
I think the biggest thing was the rebounding. I can live with everything else out there. We'll straighten that out.
definitely deserves difference scoring stays
She does a lot of things that make a big difference for us - her defense, her rebounding, her scoring and her leadership, yet she really stays under the radar. She doesn't want any credit, but she definitely deserves it.
hard
It's hard to play at 11 o'clock in the morning.
early expected felt final road shame somewhere
I felt like somewhere down the road we would play Tennessee. I expected it to be in the Final Four. It's a shame that we have to play so early in the bracket.
aggressive force knows reckoned system
She is a force to be reckoned with out there. She's stronger, more aggressive and knows our system better.
approach attitude players
Our players are just like, 'Tell us who we'll play and we'll go play. That's our attitude and that's the way we'll approach it.
fall game love people player sells
I feel like the way we play, and having a player like Ivory, sells the game of basketball. Because I want people to fall in love with women's basketball.
harder lots people physical teams
When teams get physical with her, that makes her play even better. We've had lots of people try to take her down. The more physical it is, the harder and better she plays.