Daugherty Leaves Boise St. For UW

Goal No. 1: top performance in the classroom. Goal No. 2: hard work and good behavior in practice, studies and living.

That accomplished, winning will take care of itself, said June Daugherty, named Friday to become the seventh women’s basketball coach at the University of Washington.

“(Daugherty) brings enthusiasm, experience, a spirit, a desire to succeed, a desire to do the very best job that she can for the student-athletes,” athletic director Barbara Hedges said at a news conference.

Daugherty, 39, also brings All-American and Big Ten Conference championship experience as a center at Ohio State and seven years as coach at Boise State.

At 6-foot-2, she is taller than any UW player except freshman center Malinda Lynch, also 6-2.

“My playing style is extremely uptempo offensively,” Daugherty said. “We like to run … off our defensive pressure and take full advantage of our athletes’ athletic abilities.”

She was 123-74 at Boise State, including 12-15 overall and 9-5 in the Big Sky Conference last season, after four years as an assistant at Stanford.

Boise State athletic director Gene Bleymaier promoted Daugherty aide Trish Stevens as new head coach.

Daugherty called it “a dream come true” to succeed Chris Gobrecht, who made Washington a women’s basketball powerhouse with a 243-89 record in 11 years as head coach.

Her base salary is $120,000, the same as men’s coach Bob Bender and $2,000 more than Gobrecht was getting. She was paid $68,000 at BSU.

Daugherty’s husband, Mike, her assistant at Boise, will have the same job with the Huskies.