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.
hope
I hope I get to use them one more time.
attention emphasis individual
I don't really put a lot of emphasis or attention in individual awards.
enjoy focused gear task tournament trying
I don't know if we're peaking. But we're focused on our task and what we're trying to do and what we do well, what we enjoy doing and what we feel like we need is going to get us a championship. We gear everything for tournament time.
coach diamonds roy salt sunglasses
I don't know if it's the salt air, but I told Coach Roy that I had to put sunglasses on because of the diamonds on Roy's championship ring.
enjoy focused trying
I don't know if it's peaking. ... I think we're focused on our task, what we're trying to do, and what we do well, what we enjoy doing and what we feel like is going to get us a championship.
game start tone upset
I didn't think we started the game the way we had all year. I was really upset that we didn't start better. I think that set the tone for the whole game to tell the truth.
energy felt gets hurt ivory normally rhythm spark
I didn't feel we were in rhythm today, especially after Ivory got hurt. She's our spark that gets us going, and I just felt that the energy that we normally have just wasn't there.
cylinders hitting normally
I didn't feel like we were in rhythm. We just weren't hitting on all cylinders like we normally do.
ivory rhythm seem
I didn't feel like we were in a rhythm after Ivory got hurt. She's our spark. We didn't seem to have any energy.
great proud
I'm really proud of our team. I thought we had a great year. Today, we just didn't play well.
choosing kid needs style taking
But I'm not taking a kid out of another program. That's why in recruiting, a kid needs to look at the style of play when they're choosing a school.
comment paint slow sort watching
I don't like low-scoring games. I made the comment it's sort of like watching paint dry. I like to go up and down the floor, and that's what we are all about. I don't like slow games.
seeds
I don't think the other No. 1 seeds are having to do this.