As we are blessed with a bounty of women’s basketball, catch up on the announcements, honors and more that you might have missed over the past week:
Season four of AU is almost here
The fourth season of Athletes Unlimited begins Feb. 5 in Nashville. In anticipation, the league finalized the 40-player roster, which features a mix of returnees and newcomers.
Experienced WNBA assistant coaches Shelley Patterson (most recently of the Washington Mystics), Karima Christmas-Kelly (Indiana Fever), Austin Kelley (Fever) and Roneeka Hodges (Connecticut Sun) will act as AU’s facilitators, with Danielle Viglione (Los Angeles Sparks) returning for her third season as a player development coach. She’ll be joined by Ryan Sypkens as AU expands its player development opportunities for participants.
AU also announced a new captain selection process. For week one, the captains will be randomly selected from a lottery of returning players. For weeks two and three, the top-four performers for that week will be named captains for the following week. Previously, captaincies were awarded based on the cumulative leaderboard. For week four, however, the top-four players on the cumulative leaderboard will be the captains. Overall, this change should allow more players the opportunity to…
