The journey to Rio for DePaul women’s basketball head coach Doug Bruno started a decade ago.
“The phone rang in February 2006, and I was asked to be the head coach of the 18-and-under and 19-and-under teams for two successive years,” Bruno said. “(Carol Callan, the women’s National Team director)said, ‘Take a few days to think it over’, and I said, ‘I’ve just taken a few seconds because that’s all I need. If the United States of America is asking I’m going to say yes’.”
Ten years later, students, student-athletes and staff packed into DePaul’s quad Tuesday to congratulate Bruno for his second appearance as assistant coach on the gold medal-winning U.