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Nancy Fahey Selected for Wisconsin Alumni Association Award

Nancy Fahey Selected for Wisconsin Alumni Association Award
Posted: Jan 29, 2015

From Washington University Athletics

Washington University in St. Louis head women's basketball coach Nancy Fahey has been selected as the Badger of the Year by the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Alumni Association – St. Louis Chapter. She will be recognized during the 2015 Founders' Day celebration Monday, Feb. 9, in St. Louis.

Established in 2004, the Badger of the Year Award honors a University of Wisconsin graduate in the local community who is a leader in business, through community or volunteer activity, or service to his or her profession. The Wisconsin Alumni Association expanded the Badger of the Year Award to all alumni chapters four years ago, as part of its 150th anniversary.

"It is an honor to be recognized with the Badger of the Year award from the Wisconsin Alumni Association," Fahey said. "I am proud of the educational and athletic opportunities that Wisconsin offered me. What I learned there as both a student and athlete provided me with a great foundation for my career as a coach."

A member of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame and the WUSTL Sports Hall of Fame, Fahey is in her 29thseason as the head women's basketball coach at Washington University. She is the only coach in NCAA Division III history to win five national championships, including a stretch of four consecutive titles from 1998-2001.

Fahey has also led Washington U. to a Division III-record 10 Final Four appearances and has an overall record of 678-122 (.848 winning percentage). During the 2011-12 season, Fahey became the fastest coach in NCAA women's basketball history to reach 600 wins, doing so in her 706th game. Since her arrival on the Danforth Campus in 1986, Fahey's teams have made 26 NCAA Division III Tournament appearances and won 20 University Athletic Association (UAA) titles.

The Wisconsin Alumni Association honors the modern-day Wisconsin Idea at Founders' Day programs worldwide, through local alumni chapters, as a commemoration of the first class held at UW-Madison on Feb. 5, 1849.