Anne Donovan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Anne Donovan

American basketball player and coach

Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1961

Place of Birth: Ridgewood, New Jersey, United States

Date of Death: 13-Jun-2018

Profession: basketball player, basketball coach

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Anne Theresa Donovan (November 1, 1961 – June 13, 2018) was an American women's basketball player and coach.
From 2013 to 2015, she was the head coach of the Connecticut Sun. In her playing career, Donovan won a national championship with Old Dominion University, won two Olympic gold medals, and went to three Final Fours overall.
She was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995, and became a member of the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2015. As a professional basketball coach, she guided the Seattle Storm to their first title in 2004, becoming the first woman to coach a WNBA Championship team (as well as the youngest person to coach a WNBA champion, at age 42).
She is the only person to have both played for a national women's college title and coached a team to a professional title. After coaching the Indiana Fever and the Charlotte Sting earlier in her career, Donovan joined the New York Liberty as an assistant coach in the spring of 2009, then took over as interim head coach of the Liberty on July 31, 2009.
She then went back to college to Seton Hall for two seasons before resigning to take the Connecticut Sun head coaching job for two seasons.
Donovan was also the coach of the Olympic gold medal-winning 2008 United States Women's Basketball team.