Duke's new women's basketball coach is Joanne McCallie. She was the former coach of Michigan State. She coached at Michigan State for seven years. Duke's former coach Gail Goestenkors took the coaching job at Texas.She has taken 11 teams to the big dance.This 45 year-old coach is challanged with keeping the Duke program up.This will not be such a hard task. She was the 2005 NCAA Women's Coach of the Year. Coach McCallie said this is her dream job. She was highly recruited by Duke when she was in high school. But her mother persuaded her to go to Northwestern. She just signed a $100,000 contract at Michigan State. Duke was one of the few teams that could pay her more than that. We will have to see how coach McCallie and the Duke women's basketball team does.
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