WNBA Hall of Famer Lindsay Whalen returns to the All-Star Game as an assistant coach for Team Collier. After two years away from coaching, the Minnesota Lynx legend says she’s right where she belongs — back in the gym.
Lindsay Whalen
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Hoopster Hall of Fame inducts three more Black women
WNBA greats Sylvia Fowles, Alana Beard, and Cappie Pondexter entered the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame on June 8, 2025. MSR was the only Minnesota media present, continuing its leadership in women’s sports coverage.
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‘Super-determined’ Gopher team demonstrates true home-town loyalty
Amaya Battle, Niamya Holloway, Mara Braun and Mallory Heyer, the Minnesota freshman class of 2021-22, have remained loyal to the program despite the transfer portal era, and are determined to turn the program around and make the tournament.
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Lynx new point guard Williams shows adaptability
Courtney Williams, a 5’8″ guard for the Minnesota Lynx, has proven herself to be a point guard capable of leading the team with a career-high 6.3 assists per game.
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It’s not just a head coach who gets fired
Marwan Miller, a former associate WBB coach at Minnesota, was fired along with the rest of the coaching staff.
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Gopher hoops in crisis
‘You have to have patience with the coaches, because there’s just a lot to it.’
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Whalen steps down as Minnesota women’s basketball coach
Since Whalen’s announcement, several names already have been floated out by some local media as possible successors—all thus far have been White.
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Halls of Fame recognize the best in sport
‘t’s like a celebration of all of us who have worked so hard for the game.’
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Sportswriter completes his Hall of Fame grand slam
This year’s 13-member 2022 class going into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame this weekend includes two former Minnesota Golden Gophers: Lou Hudson and Lindsay Whalen.
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Top Gopher recruit has Coach Whalen excited
This week’s Gopher 100 focuses on freshman basketball player Alanna Micheaux.
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Curtailed second season gives Whalen ample time to reflect
The forced stay-home time has allowed second-year Gopher coach Lindsay Whalen some self-reflection time.
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Body language easily misread across races, cultures
In January 2020, female college basketball player Destiny Pitts was indefinitely suspended from the University of Minnesota Gophers by her coach, Lindsay Whalen, for her body language.
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A deep dive into dynamic Gopher twosomes
We recently did a deep dive into the U of M’s record books for the Gophers women’s hoops’ all-time dynamic twosomes.
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‘Coach Whay’ now knows what she wants
Second-year Gophers coach Lindsay Whalen offers a pre-season assessment.
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It’s show time for new Whalen era of Gopher women’s hoops
As a first-time-ever coach at any level, Whalen assembled a staff with both familiarity and experience soon after she was hired this past spring.
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Black women coaches in college hoops rare as unicorns
Head Coach Lindsay Whalen and assistants Danielle O’Banion and Kelly Roysland, both former head coaches, answered questions posed by Tucker Center Co-Director Mary Jo Kane October 16 at the school’s Humphrey Center.
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White and Black athletes should stand together against injustice
Lindsay Whalen, about this time two years ago, stood alongside her Black teammates wearing black T-shirts to protest the Philando Castile shooting in Falcon Heights, a similar shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and other such tragedies.
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Former local prep stars who’ve reached the WNBA
Lindsay Whalen (Hutchinson, University of Minnesota, Minnesota Lynx), Tayler Hill (Minneapolis South, Ohio State University, Washington Mystics), Nia Coffey (Hopkins, Northwestern University, Las Vegas Aces), and Rachel Banham (Lakeville North, University of Minnesota, Connecticut Sun) have all made their marks thus far in the WNBA’s 20th season.
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Whalen named new Gopher coach after ‘whirlwind’ search
Will she be more successful recruiting local Black athletes? I love Lindsay Whalen. I’ve known her since her freshman year at Minnesota and throughout her stellar WNBA career. “You saw this coming?” a local reporter asked yours truly, the longest-tenured Gopher women’s basketball beat reporter, of my thoughts on perhaps the quickest coaching search since […]
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A chat with Minnesota High School Basketball Hall of Fame’s first inductees
It’s not often that a reporter is on a first-name basis with hall of famers. Even more so to watch them perform at a time when such a lasting honor was the farthest thought from anyone’s mind. Last week, Khalid El-Amin, Faith Johnson Patterson and Lindsay Whalen were among the 14-member Minnesota High School Basketball […]