Lynx
April 10, 2022
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Lynx trade away two of their four picks for Monday's WNBA draft

The team picked up 2023 first- and second-round picks from Las Vegas but no longer has a first-round selection for this year.
Lynx
April 9, 2022
USA National Team and Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve during practice with the National Team in Minneapolis, Minn., on Wednesday, March 30, 202

Lynx facing embarrassment of riches as draft day looms

Coach and general manager Cheryl Reeve has four picks to play with and an overfull roster to balance.
Lynx
April 9, 2022

Monday's WNBA draft: the details

Here's what you need to know ahead of Monday's WNBA draft.
Colleges
April 4, 2022
South Carolina coach Dawn Staley, right, celebrated the team’s 64-49 win over UConn in Sunday’s NCAA championship game.

Souhan: Want to promote women's basketball? Expand the WNBA

The Final Four in Minneapolis showed the sport is thriving. But the next step for developing the game is adding teams to the WNBA.
Colleges
April 3, 2022
Sights and sounds: Cultural relevance of women's basketball on display all weekend

Sights and sounds: Cultural relevance of women's basketball on display all weekend

"Just talk about the sold-out crowd," Lynx star Natalie Achonwa said.
Gophers
April 2, 2022
Lindsay Whalen stirred up the home crowd during a 2018 game at Target Center.

Whalen officially a Hall of Famer. 'My favorite point guard,' Staley says

South Carolina coach Dawn Staley sang Lindsay Whalen's praises Saturday, as the Hutchinson, Minn., native was named to the Class of 2022 of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
Lynx
April 2, 2022
Lindsay Whalen won four WNBA titles with the Lynx.

Whalen to be named to basketball Hall of Fame's Class of 2022

The former Gophers and Lynx star, and current Gophers coach, will be among the members of basketball's Naismith Hall of Fame's Class of 2022 who will be named Saturday.
Lynx
March 31, 2022
USA National Team and Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve ran practice on Wednesday.

Souhan: Women's basketball present, future pass each other at Final Four

Wednesday's practice became a basketball convention within a basketball convention in what Cheryl Reeve and the Minnesota Lynx have made one of the meccas of the sport.
Colleges
March 31, 2022
Connecticut’s Tina Charles, left, and Maya Moore, right, hug Renee Montgomery with moments left in Connecticut’s 76-54 win over Louisville in the

A true marvel: Our women's Final Four Dream Team

The women's Final Four has provided the kind of star power, heated rivalries and dynastic plots that typically populate cineplexes. Here are the very best.
Colleges
March 31, 2022
South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley celebrated her team’s return trip to the Final Four after defeating Creighton on Sunday in Gre

Staley chasing bigger dreams for team, Black coaches at Final Four

South Carolina coach Dawn Staley has a chance to become the first Black coach to win multiple NCAA Division I basketball titles. But her goals are more than just personal.
March 30, 2022
Seimone Augustus, left, and Maya Moore held up three of their WNBA trophies during a 2015 championship parade.

Souhan: Augustus, Moore took parallel paths to success with different styles

Both grew up in the South, became stars for vaunted college programs, then the first pick in the WNBA draft and league finals MVPs. The similarities of their resumes belie their differences.
March 29, 2022
The 2021 Minnesota Sports Hall of Fame inductees (clockwise from top left): Maya Moore, Annie Adamczak Glavan, Carrie Tollefson, Brianna Scurry, Linds

50 years into Title IX, Minnesota Sports Hall of Fame's special class: eight women

The eight inductees into the Minnesota Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2021 changed our understanding of sports on a local, national and global level.
Lynx
March 25, 2022
Lynx players Angel McCoughtry (left) and Aerial Powers have accepted invitations to a training camp in Minneapolis for the USA women’s national team

USA Basketball to hold training camp in Minneapolis starting before women's Final Four

Two Lynx players will be among the women coming to the camp and it will end with an open scrimmage April 2 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
Lynx
March 15, 2022
Angel McCoughtry

New Lynx forward McCoughtry hopes to be ready for WNBA season

Veteran All-Star Angel McCoughtry is recovering from a torn right ACL suffered with Las Vegas before last season started.
Sports
March 6, 2022

EXPLAINER: Why WNBA players go overseas to play in offseason

Russia has been a popular destination for WNBA players like Brittney Griner over the past two decades because of the money they can make playing there in the winter.
Colleges
February 28, 2022
UConn’s Paige Bueckers, left, the National Player of the Year as a freshman last season, returned to the Huskies’ lineup Friday after missing 19 g

Souhan: Women's sports booming — and TV networks are just noticing

Women's sports are having a moment, and that moment might not end. It's a moment far too delayed and deferred, but one that is arriving rapidly and with intent.
Sports
February 23, 2022
Lindsay Whalen and the Gophers making it all the way to the Final Four in 2004 was a breakthrough moment for women’s sports in Minnesota.

Reusse: Title IX changed sports — and my perspective — during my career

It took me — and men like me — far too long to realize how essential girls and women are to sports. Columnist Patrick Reusse's journey to understanding that had some missteps as it unfolded.
Sports
February 22, 2022
The last time the Women’s Final Four came to Minneapolis, in 1995, members and supporters of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association held signs

50th anniversary of Title IX: More than a celebration

Star Tribune Sports will publish several stories during the next four months highlighting both celebratory moments and challenges related to gender equity in sports.
Lynx
February 18, 2022
Lindsay Whalen made a reverse layup during the 2012 WNBA Finals against Indiana at Target Center.

Whalen is one of 11 finalists for the Basketball Hall of Fame

The former Lynx guard was a four-time WNBA champion in Minnesota after a great college career for the Gophers.
Lynx
February 18, 2022
Yvonne Turner of the Mercury got off a shot against Seattle’s Breanna Stewart during a playoff game in 2018.

Lynx sign two players to camp contracts

The Lynx signed free agents Yvonne Turner and Natasha Mack to camp contracts Friday. The season begins in early May.

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