DARLINGTON, S.C. — Daybreak Staley might be out entrance once more, this time at Darlington Raceway.

South Carolina’s two-time nationwide ladies’s championship coach will drive the tempo automotive for the primary race of the NASCAR Cup Sequence playoffs – the Southern 500 on Sept. 4.

Staley attended the occasion in 2017 following the her program’s first NCAA Event crown.

“Now, that I do know what I am in for, I am unable to wait to get again on the monitor once more,” she stated in a press release.

Staley stated NASCAR drivers, workers and followers all welcomed her the final time. She appreciated that as a result of supporters are so linked to their sport, “similar to ladies’s basketball followers are to their groups.”

The Gamecocks led the nation final season in ladies’s basketball residence attendance at 12,431 per sport.

This fall, Staley might be in her fifteenth season at South Carolina, which can have a number of of its prime gamers again subsequent season, beginning with reigning AP Participant of 12 months in Aliyah Boston.

The Gamecocks defeated UConn in April to assert this system’s newest NCAA crown.