So what is now known as Play4Kay is especially meaningful for the Illinois State women's basketball coach.
“Before practice (Thursday) before we went to Loyola film I showed a video on Coach Yow,” Gillespie said after the Redbirds’ double overtime win over Loyola on Friday. “It’s really important to me that every team I coach I pass on the legacy.
"I want to make sure they know who she was. Not just we’re going to be wearing T-shirts or headbands with the Y on it, who she was as a person not as a coach.