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Aug 1, 2009 · Faye and deceased twin sister Kaye played together at NC State and professionally. They were also famously featured in the following Dannon Yogurt commercial from 1980. After the conclusion of her professional basketball career, Faye was the head coach at Manhattan College for two seasons and then served as a women's basketball color ...
Nov 2, 2022 · Kaye and Faye played basketball alongside each other in college. They also played together during a three-season pro basketball career. Kaye and her twin sister Faye (Source: NCSU Libraries’ Digital Collections)
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The New York Stars were one of the earliest women’s professional basketball teams in the United States, formed in 1978 at the inception of the Women’s Professional Basketball League (1978-1981). Although the Stars would exist for just two years, the team enjoyed a number of highlights. These included a league championship, doubleheaders with the Ne...
To the extent that the media took an interest in the Women’s Basketball League, they largely ignored the league’s emerging black stars like Althea Gwyn, in favor of a handful of telegenic blonde players. These included Iowa’s Molly Bolin, Chicago’s Janie Fincher and, especially, Kaye and Faye Young of the Stars. The identical 5′ 11″ twins out of No...
The Stars lost $350,000 playing in the obscurity of New Rochelle in 1978-79. For the club’s second season, the Stars upped their profile by moving to Manhattan and signing former New York Knicks star Dean Memingeras Head Coach. “With rental costs of $300,000, we don’t expect to make money,” Stars President Ed Reisdorf told Sports Illustrated in 197...
Kaye Young married her college sweetheart from North Carolina State University, NFL linebacker Bill Cowher, in 1981. She was known as Kaye Cowher to Pittsburgh Steelers fans during her husband’s Super Bowl-winning tenure as Head Coach of the Black & Gold. She passed away in 2010. Seventeen years after the demise of the New York Stars, women’s profe...
“Thea Gwyn and I were traveling roommates while with the Stars. It was a triple threat: Thea, Cheese and JT (Janice Thomas), the only New Yorkers on the team. It was my job to make sure we were always awake and headed for the airport and to answer the hotel room door to keep the ever increasing fans away from Thea! “Thea and I went further back tha...
Forward Harriet Novarr(Stars ’78-’79), who joined the Stars early in their debut season, pass away on April 19, 2002 as a result of breast cancer. The former Syracuse University star was 45 years old. Kaye Cowher (Young) died following a battle with skin cancer at age 54 on July 23, 2010. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette remembrance. Head coach Dean Meminge...
1979-80 New York Stars Ticket Brochure & Schedule 1978-79 Women’s Professional Basketball League Brochure
Apr 28, 1983 · Faye became the women's basketball coach at Manhattan College, and Kaye began teaching and coaching on the junior high level in Olmstead Falls, Ohio, where her fiance, Bill Cowher, lived....
Faye Young Miller September 23, 2015. Faye was born in Bunn, North Carolina and was an accomplished basketball player, coach, and author. She played alongside her twin sister, Kaye, for the NC State legend Kay Yow before going on to play professionally.
Oct 1, 2015 · Faye and Kaye played together at NC State and professionally. They were a set of twins in the old Doublemint gum commercials and famously featured in the following Dannon Yogurt commercial from 1980. At the end of her professional basketball career, Faye became the head coach at Manhattan College for two seasons.
Sep 26, 2015 · Share. Faye Miller Obituary. Miller, Faye Young. Faye was born in Bunn, North Carolina and was an accomplished basketball player, coach, and author. She played alongside her twin sister,...
