McCallie guided MSU to its best season in school history in 2004-05 as the Spartans advanced to the national title game, won a school-record 33 games, won a school-record 14 Big Ten games, while sharing their second Big Ten regular-season championship, won their first Big Ten Tournament title, finished 13-0 at home, had a school-record 17-game winning streak and beat 13 nationally-ranked teams, including four teams ranked No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3. McCallie was then named National Coach of the Year by the Associated Press, Basketball Times, and Nike, as well as being voted Big Ten Coach of the Year. She was also selected the 2005 Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan College Coach of the Year.

Prior to her Duke experience, McCallie guided the 2007 FIBA U-21 World Championship team, which included three ACC student-athletes, to a 96-73 gold medal victory in Moscow, Russia. Over the 2006 summer, McCallie guided the USA Basketball U-20 team to a 5-0 record and a gold medal in the FIBA Americas Championships in Mexico City. The squad outscored its opponents by 62 points per game and set 28 U-20 records in the event.

During her eight-year stint at Maine, McCallie guided the Black Bears to seven straight 20-win campaigns, including a 20-11 overall record in 1999-2000 and their sixth-straight NCAA Tournament appearance.

The former Joanne Palombo played basketball at Northwestern from 1984-87 and still ranks seventh in Wildcat history with 378 career assists...McCallie graduated from Northwestern in 1987 with a degree in political science and earned a master’s degree in business administration from Auburn in 1990.