This week’s Gopher 100 column features freshman basketball player Ayianna ‘AJ’ Johnson.
Minnesota Lynx
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Reflections on the Lynx dynasty years
‘You do a lot of reflecting when you hang up your shoes.’
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Montgomery progressed from player to owner
This week’s Lynx Great column features Renee Montgomery.
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Tamika Williams’ key to success is to ‘invest in the community’
Before being named to the Lynx’s All-25 team this spring, Tamika Williams had already earned a place on the team’s legends’ list.
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Wright aided Lynx dynasty run
This week, we salute Lynx great Monica Wright.
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Fan favorite Lennox’s pro career began with the Lynx
‘I still have those fans out there. I just felt the energy. I just felt the love.’
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2023 WNBA Draft review
As expected, South Carolina’s Aliyah Boston was the overall top pick by Indiana in Monday’s draft.
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Lynx HC Reeve optimistic on league prospects
Cheryl Reeve recently spoke with the MSR about her new job and other pertinent topics.
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Lynx communications manager helps players tell their stories
Little did Cymonne New know that by accepting a position with the Minnesota Lynx earlier this year she would also become a history maker.
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Sistahs did it!
Put simply, the W wouldn’t be where it is today if it wasn’t for the sistahs, whose contributions throughout the past 25 years.
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Minnesota Lynx’s Maya Moore helps to overturn the conviction of Missouri man
Maya Moore put her career on hold to fight for Jonathan Irons release.
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Coaching lets retired Lynx player give back to game she loves
Plenette Pierson, after a year away from playing, is back in the WNBA as a first-year Minnesota Lynx assistant coach.
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Things are looking up for Lynx guard Odyssey Sims
Odyssey Sims, one of nine new faces on the 2019 Lynx, is hopeful about her future success.
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MN Lynx begin their 21st season this weekend
The Minnesota Lynx, the W’s second dynasty, also ruled the league since 2011 with six Finals appearances and tied Houston with four championships earned.
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Pro hoopsters go to Harvard
Harvard Business Administration Professor Anita Elberse, who first started and teaches the semester-long course with NBA players, pairing them with MBA student mentors. This year a new program was opened to WNBA players.
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Lennox, a stand-out Lynx rookie in 2001, calls the team ‘my first home’
“It was my first [pro] team,” Betty Lennox recalled in a recent MSR phone interview. Just the season before, she and Grace Daley became only the second rookie duo ever to combine for the most made three-pointers (72) for the same team. Now 42, she is the women’s basketball coach at Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Cheryl Reeve: Lynx have ‘lots of things’ to improve (audio)
“We have lots of things that we can improve on, ” Minnesota Lynx General Manager and Head Coach Cheryl Reeve told Larry Fitzgerald in a recent interview. Click the link below to find out what Coach Reeve said the four-time champs needs to do this season to be successful.