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Dawn Staley earns Wanamaker Award; John Chaney to get lifetime honor

Chaney will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at September's Wanamaker Awards ceremony.

Dawn Staley (left) with John Chaney at Dobbins High School in April for an assembly honoring Staley for winning the NCAA championship with the South Carolina women's team.
Dawn Staley (left) with John Chaney at Dobbins High School in April for an assembly honoring Staley for winning the NCAA championship with the South Carolina women's team.Read more

Dawn Staley will be given the Wanamaker Award, and John Chaney the Lifetime Achievement Award, at September's Wanamaker Awards ceremony.

Staley, a Dobbins Tech graduate who also coached the Temple women's basketball team from 2000 to 2008, led South Carolina to the national championship in April. It was her first title as head coach, to go with three Olympic gold medals as a player for the U.S. women's national team. At Temple, she took the Owls to the NCAA tournament six times in eight seasons, also earning the Wanamaker Award in 1997 and 2005.

The Wanamaker Award, presented by the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau's PHLSports division, was established in 1961. Staley is the first individual to win it three times. Only Steve Carlton and Joe Frazier have won it twice.

The award goes to an "athlete, team or organization that has done the most to reflect credit upon Philadelphia, and to the team or sport in which they excel." Last year's winner was the Villanova men's basketball team.

Chaney, 85, will be the seventh Lifetime Achievement Award winner and the first since 2014. He coached Temple for 24 years starting in 1982, winning 516 total games and leading the Owls to the Elite Eight five times. He is already in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.