Former UNC Women's Basketball Coach Jennifer Alley Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award

Posted Sep 21, 2020
Jennifer Alley, the women's basketball coach at UNC from 1977-86, has been honored as a 2020 Nike Lifetime Achievement Award winner by Women Leaders in College Sports. Alley was the first full-time women's basketball head coach at UNC and directed the Tar Heels for nine years, capturing UNC's first Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament title in 1984. (GoHeels.com)

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