UConn women’s basketball team’s 2004 NCAA Championship trophy, ring and signed ball
—Photo by Sphilbrick
“Bottom line, you’re either a risk taker, or you’re not, and if you never take take risks, you’ll never win big.’’
— Luigi “Geno’’ Auriemma (born 1954), coach of the University of Connecticut’s astonishingly successful women’s basketball team. The Italian-born coach has led UConn to 11 NCAA Division I national championships, the most in women's college basketball history, and has won eight national Naismith College Coach of the Year awards.
