ATLANTA – Forty-eight hours after her team won the NCAA Championship, Stanford women’s coach Anne Walker finally looked down at her phone. She had more than 1,000 unread messages.
There was the note from the viewer watching at home in New Zealand, and from the man sitting in a pub in England, and from the guy waiting in the airport in Oakland, who was apparently so engrossed in the championship match against Baylor that he nearly missed his flight.
“It was just nuts,” Walker said Sunday. “I had so many text messages, I thought I’d have to throw my phone away.