Stories By Wendy Parker
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Wendy Parker
/ 9 years agoWomen’s hoops gets a boost from the Naismith Hall of Fame
It’s been 30 years since the first women were inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. They were, for...
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Wendy Parker
/ 9 years agoGrentz makes return as a head coach: ‘I absolutely love it’
Theresa Grentz tried retirement, at least for a while, and liked it at first. “It was fabulous, priceless,” Grentz says of...
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Wendy Parker
/ 9 years agoSome opening week upsets amid the rules changes
There’s nothing like a textbook UConn demolition of a Top 10 opponent to strike the familiar pangs of inevitability at the...
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Wendy Parker
/ 9 years agoCelebrating the Hall of Fame inductions as another season begins
I’m a sucker for Hall of Fame inductions, all the way down to speeches that go on too long, longtime inductees...
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Wendy Parker
/ 10 years agoWalter Byers and the rise of women’s college athletics
In 1981, the NCAA voted to sponsor women’s sports, realizing a notion Walter Byers first developed nearly two decades before. The...
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Wendy Parker
/ 10 years agoThe rage over Isiah, and the silence about Griner
The last couple of weeks have been a forgettable prelude to the upcoming WNBA preseason, marked by Tuesday’s stunning news that...
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Wendy Parker
/ 10 years agoCollege players on the move, but not many coaches
What an unusual off-season already, and as we’re finding out now, it began about an hour after the women’s national championship...
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Wendy Parker
/ 10 years agoA perfect-enough 10 for UConn
TAMPA — Another staggering piece of history for Connecticut wasn’t etched into the record books with the smooth style and...
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Wendy Parker
/ 10 years agoRolling the dice on growing the women’s NCAA tourney
TAMPA — After listening to familiar, hum-drum “next steps” offered at the NCAA Women’s Final Four Summit on Monday, I kept...
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Wendy Parker
/ 10 years agoWBCA proposals call for revising board of directors
TAMPA — A wide range of proposed bylaws changes would substantially revise the board of directors of the Women’s Basketball Coaches...
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Wendy Parker
/ 10 years agoTrying to close the elusive UConn-Notre Dame gap
TAMPA — Their seasons ended Sunday night, but the coaches of young teams that reached the Women’s Final Four were effusive...
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Wendy Parker
/ 10 years agoSouth Carolina’s most improbable rise to the Final Four
TAMPA — Dawn Staley doesn’t look all that different than when she last stepped on the floor at a Women’s Final...
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Wendy Parker
/ 10 years agoTwenty shining minutes on the road to the Women’s Final Four
A little thinking out loud as the Women’s Final Four field has been determined . . . Those running the...
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Wendy Parker
/ 10 years agoThe NCAA women’s tourney presentation blues
Why can’t there be an NCAA women’s tournament without hand-wringing about how it is presented to the public? That’s what I...
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Wendy Parker
/ 10 years agoAndy Landers retires after 36 seasons at Georgia
On Monday afternoon, I was having a water cooler conversation at work about Pat Summitt, and the void she has left...
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Wendy Parker
/ 10 years agoThe misleading narrative of gender and coaching
Earlier this week The Indianapolis Star weighed in on the falling percentage of women coaching women’s college athletic teams since the passage...
