Something special is happening at the University of Louisville this year.
It’s a little unprecedented, and brings together people from five countries in pursuit of the same goal: to continue to elevate women’s basketball and to propel Louisville’s women’s program to the furthest heights head coach Jeff Walz and his team can go. (After all, it’s a special year for people with the last name Walz, isn’t it?)
This summer, Louisville guard Jayda Curry left preseason training at school to go to France for three weeks. If you’re asking yourself how many college basketball players get permission to do something like that, you’re not wrong to do so—it’s pretty unheard of. But Curry is heading into what will likely be her fourth and final year on a college court, and there are four letters at the end of this season that she’s planning to touch: WNBA.
Curry wasn’t in France to see the Eiffel Tower, shop on the Champ-Élysées or even to go to the Olympics, though she actually did all three of those things during her down time. She was there to take part in developmental coach Tremaine Dalton’s We Play Too program, which is designed to build women’s basketball players in three ways: on the court, off the court and through mentorship pairings with…
