A statue of Univ. of South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley will “officially be unveiled Wednesday afternoon” at 4pm ET -- but it “won’t be located at its originally announced location.” The statue of Staley “will be at the intersection of Senate and Lincoln streets right next to the university’s Pastides Alumni Center,” a “few blocks away from where the statue was first thought to be destined.” The statue, which was projected to cost $140,000, “will be erected via a partnership” with the city of Columbia, Statues for Equality and local business people. Staley “requested that her statue not be by” Colonial Life Arena because she “just wanted her players to get that honor.” A statue of former Gamecock and current Aces F A’ja Wilson went up in January 2021 outside of the arena (Columbia STATE, 4/28).
South Carolina set to unveil Dawn Staley statue
