Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi, who have won together at UConn, in the Olympics and overseas, are in a class of their own after leading Team USA to gold in Tokyo.
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Brenda Frese signed a six-year contract with an additional one-year extension for the 2027-28 season, keeping the Maryland women's basketball coach at the helm of a program she's led to success since 2002.
Nineteen years after first stepping foot on campus as a fast-rising coach, Frese has won 500 games with the Terrapins, brought home a national title and won another AP National Coach of the Year honor in 2021.
Her first award helped bring her to College Park. The second helped keep Frese there for the long haul.
“I’m really proud of the … consistency that this program has been able to uphold,” Frese said. “I consider myself a consistent personality and person, and it means a lot to continue to hold this program at a really high level, because that’s where Maryland belongs.”
May 3, 2021
Baylor hired Nicki Collen as the women s basketball program s head coach on Monday, the school announced.
Collen spent the last three seasons as the head coach of the WNBA s Atlanta Dream. She earned WNBA Coach of the Year honors in 2018 as the Dream reached the semifinals. Collen previously spent nine seasons as an assistant at five different schools, reaching the women s NCAA tournament with four programs. I am thrilled to be the head coach at Baylor University. I believe it is the top job in the country for women s basketball, Collen said in a statement. I am excited to begin working with this extremely talented team and I am grateful for the unwavering support of President Livingstone and Mach Rhoades.