by LadySwish | Aug 2, 2024 | LadySwish |
I’ve got a confession to make. When I got the initial phone call from Ascend Publishing to collaborate with Marian E. Washington on her autobiography, I knew almost nothing about her. I could have told you she was a longtime coach of women’s basketball at...
by LadySwish | Jul 14, 2023 | Old Dominion |
We thought we’d have her longer. Nikki McCray, gone at the age of 51, doesn’t seem real. Her funeral is Saturday afternoon in Knoxville and comes 11 years after she was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame there. Her time in Norfolk was so short that many...
by LadySwish | Mar 30, 2023 | James Madison, LadySwish, Virginia Tech |
Everybody else found out in the last two weeks what we’ve known for more than a decade. Kenny Brooks has nothing to prove. The Waynesboro, Virginia native knows not only how to build a program but how to elevate that program to the next level. Seven years in at...
by LadySwish | Mar 16, 2022 | Liberty, Virginia Tech |
Is Liberty the best of the 64 teams in the WNIT? Now, we suspect Jacksonville State objects to his notion. Yet when one sizes up each squad’s overall body of work, it’s hard to top the one produced by these Lady Flames, who will open tournament play at home against...
by LadySwish | Mar 13, 2022 | LadySwish, Liberty, Longwood, Norfolk State, Old Dominion, VCU, Virginia Tech |
Want to show off your women’s basketball prediction chops, and potentially win big money in the process? Then weigh in with one of these popular bracket challenges: Just Women’s Sports/Dick’s Sporting Goods, featuring a $150,000 grand prize; ESPN women’s tournament...
by LadySwish | Mar 8, 2022 | Christopher Newport, James Madison, Liberty, Longwood, Old Dominion |
“UConn, is that you?” I mean, we figured, could the Lancers ultimately hoist the trophy? Sure. But expecting them to lay waste to three opponents with the precision the Huskies typically display in tearing through the Big East? C’mon. Yet consider: At the 8:45...
