Daily News | Denise Dillon explains exactly why whining is prohibited in her Villanova program
The sign used to be on Denise Dillon’s Drexel door, a gift from Dragons players, giving her words right back to her. The sign made the move to her Villanova office, mounted in Dillon’s line of sight.Who’d be whining now? Life is good as Villanova’s head women’s basketball coach prepares her fourth-seeded Wildcats to host No. 13-seed Cleveland State on Saturday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. March Madness around Philadelphia centers right on Maddy Siegrist and company.
There’s a photograph to the left of her desk, closer to her in every respect. No whining? Dillon only has to glance at the photo, from her own Senior Day as a Villanova player. Denise holding flowers, laughing. Joe Dillon wearing a Villanova women’s basketball sweatshirt, looking over at his fourth-oldest child, his eyes sparkling.Do her players know how this all shaped her?She thinks of the years of taking her father every Monday for treatment at Lankenau Hospital.
Denise Dillon was a basketball star at Cardinal O’Hara, identified as a college prospect at her young age. An early scholarship offer, she said, was from St. Joseph’s, “I think after freshman year. My dad grew up in Overbrook, so he was all fired up about St. Joe’s.”“Then Foster leaves, goes to Vanderbilt,” she said.“Going far wasn’t going to work,” Dillon said. “It wasn’t even attractive.”a lot,” Dillon said of the O’Hara and Immaculata legend then coaching Rutgers.
Then Mallon showed up at Villanova as an assistant coach for Denise’s senior season. When Mallon returned to St Joe’s the following year to help Gaitley, the departure opened up a spot that Perretta offered to his graduating captain. Dillon got her coaching start right away at her alma mater because Mallon had left.
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