LA JOLLA, Calif.—UC San Diego Athletics and head women's basketball coach Heidi VanDerveer are set to host a special event, Inside Look on Leadership, Success, and Life with Tara VanDerveer, on Thursday, April 17 in the Beyster Auditorium at the UCSD Rady School of Management.
 
Tara VanDerveer is the former women's basketball coach at Stanford, where she spent 38 seasons and became one of the winningest all-time coaches in college basketball with 1,216 victories and three NCAA titles. 
 
Tara will offer invaluable insights from her time as a women's basketball coach and touch on a variety of topics through this lecture style event before a fireside chat with Heidi VanDerveer, who led the Tritons to their first Big West Championship and NCAA Tournament in March.
 
For more information and to register, click here.
 
The event is open to all individuals by registration only. All proceeds will directly support the UC San Diego women's basketball program.
 
About UC San Diego Athletics
After two decades as one of the most successful programs in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program began a new era in 2020 as a member of The Big West Conference in NCAA Division I. The 23-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in Divisions II and III and helped guide 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 83 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 38 have garnered prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world's preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 91 percent, one of the highest rates among institutions at all divisions.