What is Anne Donovan?
[[File:Anne Donovan.JPG|right|200px]] '''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]]. She was born in [[Ridgewood, New Jersey|Ridgewood]], [[New Jersey]]. In her playing career, Donovan won two Olympic gold medals, and went to three Final Fours overall. She was honored 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). 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. Donovan died on June 13, 2018 of [[heart failure]] at the age of 56.<ref>{{cite web|first=Mechells|last=Voepel|url=http://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/23785373/anne-donovan-hall-famer-first-woman-coach-wnba-championship-team-dies-56|title=Anne Donovan, Hall of Famer and Olympic gold medalist, dies at 56|work=[[ESPN.com]]|date=June 13, 2018|access-date=June 13, 2018}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20051114075707/http://www.wnba.com/coachfile/anne_donovan/index.html?nav=page Connecticut Sun profile] {{DEFAULTSORT:Donovan, Anne}} [[Category:1961 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from heart failure]] [[Category:Olympic gold medalists for the United States]] [[Category:American basketball players]] [[Category:Sportspeople from New Jersey]] [[Category:People from Ridgewood, New Jersey]] [[Category:Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees]] {{US-sports-bio-stub}}