Lindsay Whalen steps down as coach
Basketball Corridor-of-Famer Lindsay Whalen has stepped down as head coach of College of Minnesota girls’s basketball efficient instantly, this system introduced on Thursday. Whalen will stay with the Gophers’ athletic division by way of April 2025 as a particular assistant to director of athletics Mark Coyle.
“I’ve an incredible quantity of respect for Lindsay,” Coyle stated in a press release. “I wish to thank Lindsay for her onerous work and dedication as a participant and as the top coach of our girls’s basketball program. She is among the best alums and ambassadors this College has ever produced and her legacy of being a Minnesota icon is etched in stone.”
Whalen took the reins with Minnesota in 2018, shortly after asserting retirements from her enjoying days. The WNBA legend with the Minnesota Lynx led her alma mater to a 71-76 total report, twice serving to the Gophers to the second of the ladies’s NIT. Minnesota is simply 11-19 this season and 4-14 in Huge 10 play, each the worst marks of Whalen’s tenure on the sidelines.
“I wish to thank Mark and the College for giving me the chance to steer this program 5 years in the past,” she stated. “It was an honor of a lifetime. I’m grateful to my assistant coaches and employees and wish to thank them for every part they did for our student-athletes over the past 5 years. We did issues the best method and created a number of recollections, however now’s the best time for me to step apart and return to being a proud alum. I stay up for supporting and cheering on the subsequent head coach.”
Lindsay Whalen, 40, performed with the Gophers from 2000-2004, taking this system to its solely Last 4 look as a senior and ending her school profession as a three-time All-American, the primary in Minnesota historical past. She was inducted to The Naismith Memorial Basketball Corridor of Fame final yr.
