The city of Columbia honored University of South Carolina Women’s Basketball Coach Dawn Staley with a statue on Senate Street on Wednesday afternoon.

The City of Columbia paid tribute to University of South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley by unveiling a bronze statue in her honor on Senate Street.

The long-awaited statue of South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley was unveiled Wednesday afternoon near downtown Columbia. The statue, which is 14 feet tall, made of bronze and weighs nearly 2,000 pounds, depicts a smiling Staley on a ladder holding a basketball net, as if she’d just cut it down after winning a national championship.