The high school team that Kayleigh and Kaylynne Truong played for had nicknames for them. “They were ‘Leigh LeBron’ and ‘Lynne Curry,’ ” their coach, Tamara Collier, said by phone this week. “Lynne could shoot it from deep and Leigh …
The Gonzaga women’s basketball team began the second half of its rugged nonconference schedule this week. The grind continues with three games against Pac-12 teams, beginning Sunday when third-ranked Stanford (7-0) visits McCarthey Athletic Center.
The Gonzaga women’s basketball team faced the No. 1 defensive team in the nation in points allowed Saturday. That distinction, though, appeared to belong to the Zags. Gonzaga clamped down on Alabama early and often and used a hot first …
With 31 games on each schedule, two games, let alone one against each other, is not a large enough sample size to draw serious conclusions about the Gonzaga and Washington State women’s basketball teams.
From staff reports Gonzaga women’s basketball coach Lisa Fortier has been named to the 2024 Kathy Delaney-Smith Coach of the Year Award preseason watch list. This is the inaugural season of the award, named after the legendary former Harvard head …
Some coaches play coy when talking about their team during preseason interviews. Gonzaga women’s basketball coach Lisa Fortier isn’t in that camp – at least not this year. Fortier stood on the McCarthey Athletic Center court and said a few …
Gonzaga senior Brynna Maxwell is one of 20 shooting guards in the country named to the Ann Meyers Drysdale watch list, announced Tuesday by the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA).
LAS VEGAS – A’ja Wilson scored 26 points, Jackie Young 24 and Kelsey Plum 23 to lead the Aces to a 104-76 win over the New York Liberty on Wednesday in Game 2 of the WNBA Finals at Michelob Ultra Arena.
How do you build a successful college basketball program? One might think the blueprint is simple, especially when a successful design firm resides in-house. But those who built the Gonzaga women’s basketball program into a West Coast Conference power, and maintain it, will tell you that’s not the case.
The Gonzaga women will hit almost every point in the compass this season. Released on Monday, the Zags’ nonconference schedule includes trips to Wyoming, Texas and Northern California. The highlight of the nonconference season might just be a trip to …