Tag: Women’s Basketball
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CSU Rams women’s basketball earns No. 12 seed in first NCAA Tournament appearance in 10 years
FORT COLLINS — The trophy in the middle of the room was a reminder that there was no drama for the Colorado State women’s basketball team. But that didn’t stop the Rams from getting slightly impatient as they — surrounded by plenty of loyal fans inside Canvas Stadium on Selection Sunday — waited to hear…
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Colorado women’s basketball coach JR Payne earns contract extension through 2031
A decade in and the JR Payne era isn’t slowing down. Colorado athletics director Fernando Lovo said Wednesday the Buffaloes are extending the longtime women’s basketball’s coach’s contract through the 2030-31 season. “I am deeply honored and humbled to sign a new contract to remain the head women’s basketball coach at the University of Colorado,”…
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The next wave of success for JR Payne, CU Buffs women’s basketball has arrived
BOULDER — Inside her office at the CU Events Center, JR Payne had to do a double-take when looking at her computer. It was earlier this month, as the Colorado women’s basketball coach was preparing one of the hundreds of daily practice plans she prepares for her team over the course of a given season.…
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JR Payne has another new-look roster entering year 10 with the CU Buffs women | College Basketball Preview
BOULDER — JR Payne and the Colorado women’s basketball program is in a familiar spot from this time last year. The Buffaloes are welcoming 10 new players into the fold, although they’re no longer coming off three-straight trips to the NCAA Tournament. Payne’s squad was about as ‘down the middle’ as it gets last season.…
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The biggest winner in the Paris Olympics? The Sisterhood | Vince Bzdek
At the first modern Olympiad in Greece in 1896, an athletic woman from Syros seeking to improve her fortunes walked 6 miles to Athens in hopes of competing in the marathon. But women were barred from those first Olympics because Pierre de Coubertin, their founder, believed “an Olympiad with females would be impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic…