| Personal Details Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Chris Dailey |
| Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | Born in 1959. As of 2025, she is around 66 years old. |
| Marital Status / Husband / Engaged / Wedding / Spouse | Currently not married, possibly single. Check the full bio for relationship details. |
| Children / No. of Kids | None |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | White |
| Nationality | American |
| How much money does Chris Dailey make? | At UConn, she earns more than $314,000 annually. |
Wiki Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
Chris Dailey is an American college women’s basketball coach. She has served as an assistant coach at the University of Connecticut (UConn) since 1985. In March 2021, after head coach Geno Auriemma had to quarantine for 10 days due to a COVID-19 infection, Chris took over head coach duties for the team’s first-round NCAA game.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Christine Dailey was born on September 7, 1959, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Born to parents Mary (mother) and Robert (father), Christine has two brothers, Edward and Michael, and a sister, Diane.
- Although she has influenced many young women’s lives, Chris does not have any kids of her own, nor has she ever been married. When once asked in an interview, if she would ever get married Chris had answered, ”I don’t know.”
- Not willing to settle, Chris once explained that the happy marriages in her family “[gave her] perspective on how things are supposed to happen.”
- She is the godmother of UConn Head Coach Geno Auriemma’s son, Michael.
Early Life and Education :
- Chris developed strict ideologies from her Irish Catholic upbringing. Some of the rules she now applies to her players: no jeans on team outings, no sweatpants in class, no nail polish on the court, no headphones in public, and no visible tattoos.
- One former player also describes how Chris taught them to “look millionaires in the eye” and “have a conversation with [people] out of [their] age group.”
- After attending St. Peter’s High School, Dailey went to Rutgers University to earn a degree in health and physical education. On the basketball team from 1978-1982 and serving as the team captain in her final two years, she helped them win the 1982 AIAW Division 1 national championship.
Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :
- With long-time aspirations of becoming a high school teacher and coach, Chris changed her mind during her senior year at college when she had a negative student-teaching experience.
- She decided on teaching younger kids while just coaching in high school when she was offered an assistant coaching position at Cornell University.
- After one year with Cornell, Chris became an assistant coach at her alma mater Rutgers University. She remained at Rutgers for two years before joining UConn in 1985 as an assistant under newly hired head coach, Geno Auriemma.
- In 1988, Chris was promoted to associate head coach, and has served in the role ever since.
Awards and Accolades :
- During Dailey’s tenure, the team has won a record 11 national titles and has had the three longest win streaks in NCAA D1 women’s basketball history. They have had six perfect seasons, 19 Final Four appearances, and 47 conference titles.
- In 2018, Chris made history as one of the first assistant coaches to be inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.
- She is also in the New Jersey Sports Writers Association Hall of Fame; the Connecticut Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame; and the New England Basketball Hall of Fame — to name a few accolades.
- In 2016, she was also added to the UConn Huskies of Honor.
Interesting Facts and Trivia :
- In her first year at UConn, Chris was making just $22,000 and lived with a roommate. Reports now put her salary well over $300,000.
- Known for her spot-on fashion sense, Geno once joked that Nordstrom stocks would plummet if Chris ever stopped shopping there.
- A creature of habit, Chris orders the same thing from Panera Bread every morning and works out on the same machine at her gym.
- In Nov 2022, Chris fainted before the start of the No. 5 Huskies’ game against 10th-ranked North Carolina State. She was attended to by medical personnel for a few minutes before being taken to a hospital on a stretcher. However, UConn coach Geno Auriemma assured everyone after the game that she is okay and that there was nothing serious or threatening.
Body Figure / Physical Info
Chris Dailey Measurements :
- Eye Color : Blue
- Haircut / Hair Color : Blonde
- How tall is she? / Chris Dailey Height : 5′9″
- Feet / Legs / Boots / Shoe Size : No confirmed information is available.
- Pregnant? : Currently, she is not expecting a baby.
- Weight Loss : A few Google queries regarding this, but we couldn’t find anything conclusive on any of her social media.
Gino and Chris are the dream team. Each is stellar…but together, they are nuclear!!! I try to watch all women Huskies basketball games.
Please give this compliment to Chris Daily. She is the best assistant coach in women’s college basketball. Out here, Stanford is king…and believe me, we know our basketball out here, look for the SUNS to win the NBA Title for 2022…they are LOADED!!!
You are the perfect person to replace Gino, should he ever retire!!
Who is she dating
A remarkable human being, certainly wish her continued success, and all the very best that life has to offer. Let’s Go, Huskies!!!