As always, 2007 was an impressive year for NC State’s athletics program. Women’s basketball coach Kay Yow received the 2007 Naismith Outstanding Contribution to Basketball award from the Atlanta Tipoff Club and the inaugural Jimmy V ESPY Award for Perseverance from ESPN. Yow, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987, helped to establish the Jimmy V Women’s Classic to raise money for cancer research.
Tom O’Brien was hired as head football coach. O’Brien had spent the past 10 seasons as the head coach at Boston College, where he won more games than any coach in BC history.
Sidney Lowe, who helped lead the Wolfpack to an NCAA championship as a player in 1983, led the men’s basketball team to its fourth straight 20-win season, advancing to the ACC Championship for the third time in five years.
The Wolfpack men’s tennis team finished 19th in the country after a storybook run into the NCAA’s Elite Eight for the first time in program history.
NC State’s wrestling team won the ACC Championships, and the two top individual awards. Freshman Darrion Caldwell was named ACC Wrestler of the Year and Rookie of the Year, and head coach Carter Jordan was named ACC Coach of the Year.
In baseball, head coach Elliott Avent and the NC State program picked up its fifth-straight NCAA Tournament bid.
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