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[female-buckets]

My goal was to make the WNBA lesbian visibility post the top post in the WNBA hashtag. I wanted the nice photos of happy out couples to show up first in the tag above all the fanfic. But that was an impossible goal and I failed. The fanfic posts are still the top posts in the tag. I guess fantasy will always get more notes than reality. I thought because it's lesbian visibility week, the week to celebrate out lesbians, maybe out lesbian couples could get some love 😔

I don't understand why WBB fanfic people aren't bigger fans of real out couples. Don't you want inspiration for your little scenarios? Become a fan of an out couple and you'll find that inspiration. You can copy their stories and dynamics and put them in your fics. Get resourceful. Become a fan of reality

I'm not above begging the new fans to celebrate the pro couples. I have no shame. You don't need to know anything about the league. But you do need to celebrate the out couples. That's the law

[cutieboop2000]

Lore/Info time!

Celene's medical station is meant to be a room separate from the garage or her personal room, and it's her work station for the medical care she offers. Healing can be done in 3 ways here, typically in physical and magical manners.

Obviously, Celene's waning moon magic is meant for healing, and it's the first of three methods of healing. Waning moon magic is hands-on mainly because how it's supposed to work is she has to apply her hand to whatever hurts, and then the magic does the rest. The magic would appear dark black as night, but it is efficient in healing a scratch, minor boo-boo, injuries, and it makes anything that aches a lot scream less. As waning moon magic is meant for release, releasing and banishing pain/illness is seen as a good thing.

The second method of healing, more physical, is the first aid kits kept on the desk besides the chair. It consists of typical gauzes, Band-Aids, disinfectants, and whatnot of a medical kit. However, there could be other medical tools, some of which is stored in the drawers of the worktable to the right (aka the altar space). If magic doesn't always work, she could be in need of using the medical tools and first aid kits. Where does it all come from, however? ... The best guess is that the supplies were stolen to help the medical station's development.

The third method of healing is through potion making. The table on the right serves as an altar space as well as a storage for things like herbs, flowers and use them for medical purposes. Such floral resources are mixed into the cauldron to generate potions of various purposes. The kitty witch would have to make sure it's the right ingredients for the right ailment, and a book is kept in the upper right drawer. It's a weird way to go about healing just as Celene's magic is, but damn they work too, as long as it's the correct type of potion. The only consequence it has is that it tastes weird, but that's how all medicinal drinks are like; yet it produces the best outcome of the person feeling better.

Now, for the surroundings itself!

On the left table, it includes first aids, a star projector (assumingly connected to an outlet) for relaxing purposes, and a portable laptop. The laptop can be transferred between rooms, but for this room, Celene uses it for spooky ambience purposes. The music probably doesn't help the patients/bikers who end up here feel at ease, unless they're into spooky safe room type of music. In the same side as the left table, there's a doctor's chair that has ribbons with belt buckles included either for difficult patients or for reaction reduction. The chair also has a button on the upper part for upper restriction. Restrictions are only for if it's necessary, and the fact there's restraints on the chair also isn't reassuring either. Celene can only try her best to reassure them since said restraints aren't used until it gets difficult.

On the right side is where the rest of the medical resources are. On the top there's the altar area full of stored herbs as well as a cauldron next to it, so it doubles as a workspace. As explained previously, it is used for making potions. Below it are the drawers, which either contain backup medical tools, first aid, or witchy supplies for healing. It's very useful, and she'll go to it for some of the medical business.

Oh, and that door in the middle? Well, for LBB Celene, it's not very useful... yet. At that time, the medical station's only started out and Celly's getting patients for medical appointments! It's however useful for WBB Celene because it's extra storage without getting too bloody, and it would become a testing area later on! It's kind of a experiment room later in her time as one of the Loveless Bikers, being the gang's witch and medic.

The picture itself is a rough idea, and there'll probably be more development as my brain keeps on storming. So yeah, enjoy the major lore post on what the workspace is like!

[gaywoso]

Some women's basketball dates for the rest of 2021:

MAY

FIBA South American Women's Championship: Monday, May 10th-Sunday, May 16th [CANCELLED]

WNBA: Friday, May 14th-Sunday September 19th (Regular Season) & latest possible final is Tuesday, October 19th

JUNE

FIBA Women's AmeriCup: Friday, June 11th-Saturday, June 19th

FIBA Women's European Championship for Small Countries: Tuesday, June 15th-Sunday, June 20th

FIBA EuroBasket: Thursday, June 17th-Sunday, June 27th

FIBA U16 Women's Americas Championship: Sunday, June 20th-Sunday, June 27th

JULY

FIBA U20 Women's European Championship Division B: Saturday, July 3rd-Sunday, July 11th

FIBA U20 Women's European Championship: Tuesday, July 6th-Wednesday, July 14th

FIBA U16 Women's European Championship Division C: Tuesday, July 13th-Sunday, July 18th

Centrobasket U17 Women's Championship: Wednesday, July 14th-Sunday, July 18th

FIBA Women's U18 European Championship Division B: Friday, July 23rd-Sunday, August 1st

FIBA Women's U18 European Championship: Saturday, July 24th-Sunday, August 1st

Olympics 3x3: Saturday, July 24th-Wednesday, July 28th

Olympics Women: Monday, July 26th-Sunday, August 8th

FIBA U18 Women's Championship Division C: Tuesday, July 27th-Sunday, August 1st

AUGUST

FIBA Women's U16 European Championship Division B: Thursday. August 5th-Saturday, August 14th

FIBA Women's U16 European Championship: Friday, August 6th-Saturday, August 14th

FIBA U19 Women's Basketball World Cup: Saturday, August 7th-Sunday, August 15th

SEPTEMBER

FIBA Women's Polynesia Basketball Cup: Monday. September 6th-Friday, September 10th

FIBA Women's AfroBasket: Friday, September 17th-Sunday, September 26th

FIBA Women's Asia Cup: Sunday, September 26th-Sunday, October 3rd

NOVEMBER

International Window: Sunday, November 7th-Monday, November 15th

South American U17 Women's Championship: Monday, November 15th-Saturday, November 20th

*Fall Unannounced

EuroLeague 2021-22: September/October start (TBA)

EuroCup 2021-22: September/October start (TBA)

Russian league: September/October start (TBA)

Turkish league: October start (TBA)

FIBA Supercup: October (TBA)

NCAA: November start (TBA)

WHERE TO WATCH

FIBA/International/EuroLeague/EuroCup: FIBA YouTube and they may starting to stream on Twitch

WNBA: ESPN & WNBA League Pass

Turkish league: TBF YouTube, Tivibu Spor with VPN

Russian league: Russia Basket website, UMMC Ekaterinburg YouTube for home games

[Note: the list was made on April 18th so anything can change. Sorry if I got any of the days or dates wrong here]

Hope this is useful!

[bbtin]

When it comes to sharp things, leave it to Ice Bear.

[sportsgeekonomics]

Competition once again sniffs out a bogus claim of principle

In 2015, after having lost the O’Bannon case, the "Power 5″ conferences (P5) (who like to call themselves the Autonomy 5, like some sort of super hero coalition)[1] agreed among themselves to start allowing their scholarships to include cash payments to cover the off-campus elements of the full Cost of Attendance (COA) that had been prohibited by NCAA rules since 1976, such as living expenses and travel expenses.

Under the new “autonomy” rules the NCAA had passed the previous summer, these five conferences were now allowed to collude among themselves and no longer needed to collude with the rest of the schools in D1, as long as they did not exceed COA.  Thus, when they made this move in January 2015 (effective August 2015), they essentially moved to the absolute highest level the NCAA allowed them.  Those same rules said that any other conference that wanted to do so, could match the P5.

There were a lot of people who knew deep in their bones that few, if any other schools could afford to match the P5 on this.  The Colonial Athletic Conference, an eastern conference with schools like Delaware, William & Mary and Elon, was one of just two conferences that voted against allowing the P5 the independence to make this change (the Ivy League was the other).  The representative of the Colonial Athletic Association, University of Delaware President Patrick Harker explained:

“Division I is very diverse — schools with very large budgets that are very well resourced and those like us that subsidize athletics,” he said. “Often the media think of all college athletics as making millions of dollars. That’s not true. The majority of us don’t.”

Colonial conference leaders and others say that in addition to widening the wealth gap in college sports, already deeply entrenched, the new structure does not address important issues that could have just as well been dealt with under the old structure.

Presumably smart people accepted the idea that this was going to permanently severe the Haves from the Haves-Nots, the schools that could afford to pay COA from schools, like Delaware, that clearly could not.  As the Dothraki attendants of Daenerys Targaryen were fond of saying, “It is known” that only the P5, or maybe a fringe of other schools, had the money to match this.[2]

Quickly, it became clear that the extent of the ability to pay COA to athletes was far greater than the 65 schools in the P5.  In early 2016, an expert report by Daniel Rascher[3] estimated how many schools had adopted (or announced plans to adopt) COA, and already it reached deep into the non-P5 ranks, with all but 5 FBS schools announcing the adoption of Full or Partial COA, and over 200 D1 basketball schools (out of a total 340 non Ivy League, non-military schools in D1) doing the same.

By mid-2017, the schools themselves had to declare whether they had adopted some form of COA or not.  Over 260 schools admitted in legal proceedings that, yes, they had in fact adopted COA for some or all of their football or men’s/women’s basketball athletes.

Now, to be clear, this left about 80 or so hold out schools that had not done some.  Among these were HBCUs, which struggle with funding for all elements of their campuses, sports included.  But there were also some well-funded schools that made a big deal out of the fact that they were not going to adopt COA, because COA was, essentially, immoral.  That it was wrong to provide a true “full ride” to athletes when so many other deserving students were getting less.  Chief among these were nine schools that wrote an open letter in September 2015, declaring their principled opposition to the very idea of increasing athletic scholarships to cover the full attendance, who I like to call the Nine “No, No, Never!” schools.  

The four most prominent of these schools were Elon University, James Madison University, the University of Delaware, and William and Mary University. They explained that:

“While we are happy for that very small number of students who are able to pursue professional sports careers (which typically last only a few years), we must maintain our focus on the education that we provide that will prepare them for life after college and life after sport. Given that focus, we believe that we must continue to treat these students as we do our other students.” 

And thus, while other schools “have recently opted to offer ‘cost of attendance’ payments that provide additional economic benefits for miscellaneous expenses to some or all student-athletes (particularly in high-profile sports that receive significant media attention),” these nine schools “have chosen not to offer additional “cost of attendance” payments to student-athletes at this time.”

As they explained, their opposition was based on principle, because as they saw it, paying Full COA was, “a more professional model towards individual compensation” and, as they put it:

“Spending even more money on payments for certain high-profile sports could lead to pressures to eliminate other varsity sports on campus, which would limit the athletic experiences available to many of our students or cause an increase in tuition and fees for all students. It is our responsibility to ensure that the disproportionate media and financial attention on certain high-profile sports does not undermine opportunities for large numbers of students or get in the way of larger institutional interests. Accordingly, we are committed to administering our institution’s athletic programs in ways that are consistent with our mission, culture and values.”

You can read the full thing, but be sure to wear a hazmat suit or whatever, because the sanctimony might drip all over your shirt while you read it.  Keep in mind that these schools essentially laid down a marker – paying COA is inconsistent “with our mission, culture and values.”

Of course, as a matter of competition theory, this is how markets should work.  If 260 schools want to pay their athletes COA, and 80 don’t, and among that 80 the reasons vary from lack of funding to a desire not to compete on price, that’s great.  It’s a little troubling that 9 schools seems to have agreed among themselves, but the Presidents of those universities were clear each had reached the decision independently, so if we take them at their word, then 9 schools choosing not to compete using COA as a recruiting tool is really the same as Chick-fil-A choosing not to open on Sundays, out of principle.

But competition theory also says, in the words of the philosophy Bobbi Fleckman, that money talks and bullshit walks.  Even before the second season of COA was underway, James Madison (JMU) had changed its tune.  Facing an angry fan reaction (along the lines of: how dare you not compete for talent as hard as other schools), principled opposition turned into acquiescence to the market.  Eight months after the letter, JMU announced that it would offer Full COA to men’s and women’s basketball (but not football) athletes beginning in the 2017-18 year.  

When asked about the change under oath, JMU President Jonathan Alger explained:

So basically -- we didn’t want to lose good athletes, and we didn’t want to lose good coaches if they were afraid of losing good athletes, and they didn’t want to lose basketball games.  So we know what JMU’s real principle always was.  And perhaps for this reason, it was not stated in the announcement, whether it was now consistent with JMU’s mission to adopt “a more professional model towards individual compensation” for basketball, but remained inconsistent for football, or whether it was just the fact that JMU is more competitive in basketball than it is football, with its football still in FCS, the lower half of D1 football.

Other schools on the list of the “No, No, Never! Nine” slowly changed their minds as well.  According to public information from the “Alston v. NCAA” case, New Hampshire began offering COA on a case-by-case basis in 2016-17, and Delaware began offering Full COA to MBB and WBB athletes beginning in the 2017-18 year.

But still William and Mary (W&M) and Elon stood out.  Neither was on the list of the ~260 schools that acknowledged they had adopted some form of COA in the settlement of the damages portion of the “Alston v. NCAA” case, which included all schools that “provide, have provided, or have indicated by or before June 1, 2017 an intent to start providing any portion of the gap between the amount of GIA allowed prior to August 1, 2015 and full COA to at least one” football or basketball athlete.

So, principle over profit, right?  Well, as the philosopher Lee Corso has said, not so fast my friend.  

New methods of competition, like any innovation, takes time to diffuse throughout a marketplace.  Not every company adopted on-line shopping on Day 1 of the internet.  Not every household bought one of those new-fangled color TVs on the first day they hit the market.[4]  And not every school that was on the list of 260 COA schools had adopted it on August 1, 2015, when they were first allowed to.  It took some time, but the number of adopters grew and grew.  And not surprisingly, the cut-off for the settlement of June 1, 2017 was also not the end of the process of adoption.

Steely Dan saw it coming all along, when they sang “Woah no, William and Mary won’t do.”  Very under the radar, even for someone like me who keeps tracks of hypocrisy with respect to “amateurism,” in August 2016, it was announced that William and Mary would do COA for men’s and women’s basketball:

“A William & Mary representative on Friday said that the Tribe this school year will start providing cost of attendance to men’s and women’s basketball scholarship recipients. The COA stipend will range from $2,800 to $3,000, depending on various factors, among them being whether the student does or does not reside in Virginia.”

At the same time, JMU expanded its COA offers beyond basketball, announcing

“James Madison will begin providing cost of attendance for football players and all scholarship athletes starting in the fall of 2019, the Harrisonburg Daily News-Record reported this week. JMU already was offering cost of attendance in men’s and women’s basketball, at about $4,000 per player.”

But Elon stood firm.  Mere economic pressure cannot sway a school if it’s committed to the principle of amateurism, and is standing firm against “a more professional model towards individual compensation” and intent on “administering our institution’s athletic programs in ways that are consistent with our mission, culture and values,” right?

Wrong.

As anyone who believes in the power of markets as a lie detector might have predicted, competition got the better of Elon’s claims of principled opposition.  Last month, Elon announced that it too had begun paying its athletes full COA:

“In what registers as the calling of a considerable audible, Elon is changing course on the cost of attendance stipends that are permitted by the NCAA and will pay those allowances to its athletes, beginning with men’s and women’s basketball players…. Men’s and women’s basketball players will start receiving cost of attendance during the approaching 2019-20 school year, as Elon embarks on a phasing-in process across its 17 sports teams. By 2022-23, athletics director Dave Blank said the Phoenix plans to have the stipends implemented for all of its scholarship athletes.”

Elon’s reasoning?   Doing well in basketball (and other sports over time) is apparently more important to them than “administering our institution’s athletic programs in ways that are consistent with our mission, culture and values.”  Or maybe a better way to say it is that the “mission, culture and values” of Elon is more about avoiding “competitive disadvantage in recruiting in our region and our conference” than it is about refusing to pay the going rate for top talent.

In other words, money talks and bullshit walks.

If you are one of those old fuddy-duddies who reads this and thinks, o, alas! How filthy lucre corrupts even the best of us, you aren’t paying attention, remember that no one made JMU, W&M, or Elon pay college athletes anything.  They aren’t required to give a single scholarship in men’s basketball if they don’t think athletes should be paid. (and yes, a scholarship is pay.)

They were not required to add a monthly COA pay check when it was adopted, and they said they would not.  But in markets, choices have consequences.  The consequence these schools suddenly faced was that the quality of their basketball (and other sports) programs faced the risk of declining.  Coaches maybe started losing recruits to other schools.  Now remember, these are schools that explicitly claimed they do not make money with sports – go back to their letter from 2015 and you can see they included themselves among the schools that “invest millions of dollars annually beyond the monies generated by athletics in order to support their student-athletes and the benefits and values intercollegiate sports bring to the institution.”  So by their own logic, spending more on sports was just a waste, right?  Not making any money at the old price, why spend more?  And it’s not like Elon is so dominant in men’s basketball that its identity was at risk or anything.

No, despite the claims that “everybody’s broke,” when the schools faced the prospect of having slightly lower-quality sports on campus, they eventually realized that their principled opposition wasn’t really all that important after all.  After all, explained Elon, they were the last hold out in the Colonial Athletic Association [a conference which voted AGAINST allowing the P5 the ability to allow COA without a full NCAA vote], saying “The other nine schools were going to be doing it, so we felt it was important to keep up.”

Chick-fil-A doesn’t feel the need to keep up with other fast food places on Sundays, because, whether you agree with them or not, they hold a deep principled belief that Sunday is a day of rest.  That’s what principle over profit looks like.  “We felt it was important to keep up” is an admission that your claims of principle were bogus rationalizations.  If your principles are so weakly held that at the first contact with economic reality, you abandon them, they probably weren’t worth a damn to begin with.

And that sums up the Principle of Amateurism pretty well.  Not worth a damn to begin with.  Thank you, James Madison, William & Mary, and Elon, for showing the world your true principles and making it clear that Amateurism is a Con.

[1] As you probably know, these five conferences are the ACC, Big Ten, Big Twelve, Pac-12, and SEC.

[2] Another thing that was “known” was that in order to afford COA for superstars, schools were going to have to cut the scholarships of benchwarmers… this little post doesn’t cover that, but rest assured, that too was false.

[3] Full disclosure, Dan is my friend and business partner, and I helped him with the research to build this table back in 2015 and 2016 when he wrote the report.

[4] In economics this process is known as the diffusion of innovation.  You can read more about it at Rogers, Everett M., “Diffusion of Innovations,” Fourth Edition, The Free Press, New York, 1995 (http://bit.ly/1xzRwkp).

[degreeacademic]

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[groundramon]

Its only been 15ish minutes but I’m still thinking about this post and I really like how instead of being offended about the outrageous displays of sexism in the exact field im going into, instead of being mad that a show I really enjoy was canceled prematurely/at a spoiler (? so I’ve heard, like I’ve said I’m only on season 3 so...), I’m just like “WHAT DO YOU MEAN TERRA WOULD’VE GOTTEN MORE SCREENTIME IN SEASON 6″

That says a lot about where my priorities lie.  Like sexism in the children’s television industry and division in the toy industry are two things I’d love to work against once I get into the industry (I mean im not planning to change the world lmfao but I can try) considering both fields are close to my heart and I’ll probably be working with them extensively once I get a job (not sure how involved I’ll be in merchandising but I’d like to have at least some hand in it), and I hate enforcing gender roles on kids (do you know how fucked up I’d be if my parents didn’t let me play with “masculine” toys like dragons, Pokemon figures, ect-), but Terra is more important.

My obsession aside, I do wonder how much that’s changed in recent years.

Teen Titans aired from 2003 to 2006, and honestly I think sexism had the biggest grip on children’s television in that time period than any other time period.  Sure other older shows would just...not show females in equal roles to their male counterparts, but in the early 2000s, either you did that too or you made a big deal about your female character being given equal treatment to her male counterpart.  Oh boy, look at Rika from Digimon Tamers, it’s so WEIRD that she’s a GIRL and she’s SO GOOD AT TAMING AND THE CARD GAME, wOWEE.  I give Digimon Tamers a lot of slack for that because it was extremely realistic about its sexism lmao (Henry never said anything about Rika being a girl, Jerry and Rika were both treated as equals in the overarching narrative, ect) but my point still stands.  Teen Titans is really good about how it treats its female characters, but I can still see the fingerprints of this era all over it, from its character designs (DRAW RAVEN WITH A THICKER WAIST YOU COWARDS) to its choreography (if Starfire gets wrapped up by one more tentacle I s2g-)  They also both have male-dominated casts but like...what show doesn’t?  Steven Universe, and then shows specifically targeted towards females?  And like, I’m not gonna sit here and yell at shows from the early 2000s because these were the better shows out there, they tried their best.  I can find a more sexist show airing nowadays easily, and like whatever, plenty of shows have done just as bad if not worse and I’m just using those as examples because I’ll stan those shows til i die.  I’m just sayin, it’s not surprising given the time period.  (I also have no idea how ATLA survived and thrived in the late 2000s, seriously what the fuck, how did Nickelodeon do something right in those years)

Fastforward to nowadays though, and while male-dominated casts are still the...well everything except Steven Universe and female-oriented shows, there are so many shows that really don’t seem to appeal to a particular gender.  If you made me pick, I’d say shows like Steven Universe, Adventure Time, and We Bare Bears are probably aimed at 7-10 year old boys.  But honestly?  They’re relatively ageless and genderless shows; SU and AT are both adventure-comedies, and We Bare Bears is about as gender-neutral as a Tom and Jerry cartoon.  And I already mentioned that SU is like the only cartoon I can think of that doesn’t have a male-dominated main cast and isn’t targeted exclusively at girls.

One thing that the 2010s have brought that I really appreciate is ageless, genderless shows that aren’t just there to sell toys.  Sure you can find merchandise for AT and SU (I cant find any WBB merchandise though :( i wouldnt mind an ice bear plushie but its fine...im fine...) but it was never their primary goal.

Green Lantern was canceled in 2013, and while that doesn’t seem that long ago, that was actually four years ago (jesus christ why am I so old).  Young Justice was canceled the same year, but it was announced last year that it’d be returning for a new season.  Legend of Korra was canceled in 2012, meaning it could’ve easily been part of the same sexism in the industry that killed Green Lantern and Young Justice.  I did hear something about there being concern from Nickelodeon executives about Korra being a girl, but the writing team was allowed to proceed when a test screening showed that boys didnt care about her gender (surprise surprise! kids arent sexist assholes until you teach them to be. who knew? oh yeah I FUCKING DID) so...

Yes shows like Adventure Time and Steven Universe were out or coming out around this time, but the industry hadn’t made the shift in mindset yet.  Adventure Time was a hit at the time, but like Avatar: The Last Airbender, it was an outlier, a show that was picked up for so many seasons and just too big to kill when its contract was up.  But with shows like Steven Universe, Clarence, We Bare Bears, ect...the cartoon industry has become a lot more gender-neutral in my eyes.

The group that networks are most concerned with appealing to now is 90s kids.  The hip thing to do is play with nostalgia and reuse old properties, for whatever gender people you want.  That’s why Teen Titans Go is still playing when it appeals to people of all genders, despite Teen Titans doing the same thing (in an arguably better show) a decade ago.

But one thing I dont understand is 90s cartoons.  90s cartoons - the original CN cartoons, the original Nicktoons, the original Disney cartoons - none of them seemed particularly...gendered.  Like anyone could relate to Hey Arnold.  Courage the Cowardly Dog was scary no matter your gender.  Everyone loved Ducktales - altho I guess Disney isn’t behind any of the situations i mentioned before (it’s mostly CN and then a little bit of Nickelodeon, but I do know Disney’s done some...kinda shady shit and does have a tendency to gender its shows, but idk if it’s ever canceled a show for that reason)  I dont know.  I wish I had the motivation and resources to do more research, but I’m just some idiot on the internet lmao.

I guess my point is that Teen Titans, The Legend of Korra, and related shows would likely be much better off if they were airing in 2017.

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Former Buff Named Head Coach At Northern Colorado

By Andy Schlichting, WBB SID

Former CU women’s basketball player Jenny (Roulier) Huth was hired as the head coach at Northern Colorado on Monday.

Huth goes to the Bears with 11 years of coaching experience at the collegiate level after her playing career in Boulder. She has spent the past seven seasons at UCLA and also had two-year stints at Florida State and Oakland (Mich.).

At CU, Huth was a four-year letterwinner for the Buffs from 1998-2002, scoring 1,399 points and dishing out 319 assists. She still ranks second in career 3-point percentage (.407), fifth in 3-point field goals made (203), sixth in attempts (499) and eighth in free throw percentage (.815). She led the Buffs to NCAA Tournament appearances in her final two seasons, including a trip to the Elite Eight as a senior.

“I’m so thrilled for Jenny to return to her home state of Colorado to take on the challenge as  the new head coach of the Bears,” Ceal Barry said, Huth’s coach at CU and CU’s current SWA. “As head coach, Jenny will bring great energy and passion each day, along with a will to win with integrity.”

Huth takes over a UNC program that won a program-record 26 games and reached the NCAA Tournament in 2017-18.

She joins a long list of former Buffs that have gone on to collegiate coaching careers after their playing days.

Former CU student-athletes turned college coaches:

Gail Hook (1979-82) – former head coach at Monarch and Centaurus High Schools for 24 years (former assistant coach at Northern Colorado and Purdue, in the WNBA with Charlotte Sting, and with USA Basketball)

Susan Horner (1977-79) – former assistant coach at CU for 4 seasons

Jenny (Roulier) Huth (1998-02 at CU) – current head coach at Northern Colorado (11 seasons as assistant at UCLA, Oakland (Mich.) and Florida State)

Linda Lappe (1998-03 at CU) – former head coach at CU at Metro State (6 seasons at CU, 3 at Metro; 4 seasons as assistant at Drake and Colorado State)

Raegan (Scott) Pebley (1993-97 at CU) – current head coach at TCU (4 seasons at TCU, 2 at Fresno State, 9 at Utah State; 4 seasons as assistant at George Mason and Colorado State)

Jasmine Sborov (2011-15 at CU) – current assistant at Harvard (just finished her 2nd season)

Erin Scholz (1993-97) – former head coach at Fresno Pacific (3 seasons at Fresno Pacific; 6 seasons as assistant at Utah State and Grand Canyon)

Shelley Sheetz (1991-95 at CU) – current assistant coach at Loyola (Md.) (15 seasons at Loyola, Boston College, Denver, Pepperdine, San Diego and Washington State)

Bianca Smith (2006-10 at CU) – current assistant coach at Loyola Chicago (6 seasons at Loyola Chicago, Rice and Texas Southern as assistant and/or video coordinator)

Tracy Tripp (1985-89 at CU) – former assistant coach at Denver and San Diego State for 13 seasons; former director of basketball operations at CU for 4 seasons (currently CU’s director of human resources)

Jen (Tubergen) Warden (1988-90 at CU) – former head coach at Colorado State at Boise State (6 seasons at CSU, 3 seasons at BSU; 10 seasons as assistant at CU)

Annan Wilson (1986-90 at CU) – former assistant coach at CU for 2 seasons

Randie Wirt (2000-04 at CU) – former assistant coach at Colorado State for 3 seasons

Former assistant CU coaches who have become head coaches at the collegiate level:

Jenny Baranczyk (2 seasons at CU 2010-12) – current head coach at Drake (just finished 6th season)

Jeff Cammon (1 season at CU 2016-17) – current head coach at Long Beach State (just finished 1st season)

Matt Daniel (1 season at CU 2004-05) – former head coach at Marshall for 5 seasons and Central Arkansas for 4 seasons

Tanya Haave (4 seasons at CU 2001-05) – current head coach at Metro State (just finished 8th season at Metro; was head coach at San Francisco for 4 seasons prior to MSU Denver)

Patrick Harrington (3 seasons at CU 2007-10) – former head coach at Northwest Florida State College (JUCO) for 4 seasons before passing away in 2014

Jim Jabir (1 season at CU 2002-03) – current head coach at Florida Atlantic (just finished 1st season at FAU; was head coach at Dayton for 13 seasons prior to FAU after CU)

Tom McConnell (4 seasons at CU 2006-10) – current head coach at Indiana (Pa.) (just finished 5th season; was assistant at Old Dominion after leaving CU)

Mike Neighbors (1 season at CU 2005-06) – current head coach at Arkansas (just finished 1st season at Arkansas; was head coach at Washington for 4 seasons prior to Arkansas)

Bethann Shapiro Ord (2 seasons at CU 2005-07) – current head coach at Weber State (just finished 7th season at WSU; was assistant at Louisville for 4 seasons after CU)

Barb Smith (9 seasons at CU 1988-97) – current associate head coach at St. Louis (former head coach at San Diego State for 5 seasons)

LaTonya Watson (12 seasons at CU 1996-05, 2011-14) – former head coach at New Haven for 3 seasons (2015-18)

If you are aware of any names missing from these lists, please e-mail andrew.schlichting@colorado.edu 

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FIBA EuroLeague Women 2021-22 Game Week 1

Wednesday, October 6th, 2021

11:00 AM Eastern

Dynamo Kursk [RUS] vs Arka Gdynia [POL]

12:00 PM Eastern

TTT Riga [LAT] vs UMMC Ekaterinburg [RUS]

Galatasaray [TUR] vs Fenerbahce [TUR]

1:15 PM Eastern

UNI Girona [ESP] vs Sopron Basket [HUN]

1:30 PM Eastern

Reyer Venezia [ITA] vs KSC Szeskzard [HUN]

2:00 PM Eastern

BLMA Montpellier [FRA] vs USK Praha [CZE]

Thursday, October 7th, 2021

1:30 PM Eastern

Famila Schio [ITA] vs Basket Landes [FRA]

2:30 PM Eastern

Perfumerias Avenida [ESP] vs MBA Moscow [RUS]

The most interesting games to watch would be 3x in a row winners UMMC Ekaterinburg vs one of the few teams to beat them, TTT Riga & and the local rivals game with the #2 in Europe Fenerbahce vs Galatasaray

All games live and free on the FIBAEuropeTV YouTube

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Linda Bustamante in Motion 2012

Each and every new year delivers one more birthday, continued development in the arts and daily life, new ideas, and new options. This yr marks my sixth 12 months of possessing the honor of currently being a member of the prestigious World Black Belt (WBB) family members. During this time, I have been offered the great opportunity to be a element of several of the aspects that this fantastic site has to offer. WBB has put together an wonderful internet site to talk with the most admired and highly regarded martial artists close to the globe and has offered me the opportunity to share the effect that martial arts has had on my existence. Some of the many academic aspects built-in in this group web site are info on an array of martial arts variations, and the most recent updates in the martial arts planet with Planet Black Belts’ month-to-month e-newsletter. The WBB internet site is also a wonderful internet site to meet up with new martial artists and form lengthy lasting friendships.

The Mute Executioner

I have often considered that if 1 thinks in the power of their goals then there are no this sort of things as impossibilities, but rather infinite opportunities. Like my household, Learn Leo Fong, ideal recognized for his shut ties and friendship to the famous Bruce Lee and for his progressive method to the martial arts, is a person in my lifestyle that thinks that if a single functions tough, makes use of each useful resource that is offered, and 1 is completely fully commited to satisfying what 1 sets out to do, then one's desires are within their grasp. Mr. Fong informed me, “What the brain can conceive and act on it can achieve” and I completely concur with his belief. To conceive becoming an actress and showcasing my martial arts in films and to be fortunate to act upon it with the support of Mr. Leo Fong is certainly, in my viewpoint, an accomplishment in my journey via daily life. I have fashioned a close friendship and admiration for Mr. Fong and this past year I had the wonderful possibility to perform with him in our most recent movie called, The Mute Executioner, in which I perform Shelly Johnson. Each and every time I am fortunate to perform on tasks with Mr. Fong, it is often a great understanding expertise. What I also admire is that Mr. Fong uses the films he creates as an outlet to categorical constructive life messages. In The Mute Executioner, Shelly has a difficult time dealing with the fatalities of her family who obtained massacred by a group of property invading robbers and turns into mute from the shock of witnessing the murders. By means of the course of the film, she falls in enjoy and is conflicted whether or not to get revenge on the kinds that murdered her family or to forgive them. We get to adhere to Shelly in her quest of browsing for internal peace even when inside she is in a rage, bent on looking for out the killers and carry justice to her household for the murders. We get to see if she forgives them or her anger is also excellent to overlook. In December 2011, I finished The Mute Executioner which is my next film with Mr. Fong and this movie is due for a DVD launch in 2013.

The Art of Goju Ryu Japanese Karate

Its been 6 many years considering that I attained my 1st diploma black belt in the art of Goju Ryu Japanese Karate. Considering that that time, I have continued finding out and growing my understanding in my art and on February 22, 2012 I rated to my 4th degree black belt in the art of Goju Ryu Japanese Karate. As I reflect back at my youth and how I commenced martial arts in my backyard with my father and the fond reminiscences I have, I remember the generate I possessed at a youthful age was fueled with supportive mother and father who realized and recognized the importance of a lifelong dedication to an art I was and nonetheless am fully passionate about. The honor of earning every single position is an wonderful sensation, but at the conclude of the day I know I am still that little female with the identical travel and tenacity to carry on studying and often acknowledging that anything new is attained each and every and every day.

A Legend and His Art and Physical exercise Plan: Wei Kuen Do and Chi Fung

I have also had the honor of learning from my Expensive Good friend, Living Legend, and Grandmaster Leo Fong. As my mentor, he has taught me his technique to the martial arts and his exercising plan. In the system of knowing Mr. Fong, he has graciously handed down his artwork type to me called, Wei Kuen Do (WKD)- “The Way of the Integrated Fist”. Above the final fifty several years, Mr. Fong has blended with each other a variety of varieties of martial arts and through his existence encounters he produced a solitary strategy in fight and in the totality of life which he phone calls Wei Kuen Do. WKD's early beginnings arrived from Bruce Lee's Jun Supporter Jeet Kune Do, Angel Cabales' Serrada Escrima, Western Boxing, Sil Lum Kung Fu, Choy Lay Fut, and Wing Chun. From these numerous art forms, he has taken the most practical way for actuality combating and built-in into his strategy of WKD the most productive from every single artwork. WDK is divided into four stages of expansion and progress: establishing kinds expertise, perfecting people expertise, dissolving kinds expertise, and creating kinds equipment their possess. Also, proficiency and comprehension of physical improvement, psychological expression, psychological self-control, and non secular enlightenment all help in assuring one's expansion in WKD. One particular need to also have unity in between the emotional, mental, and non secular to get to the highest degree of growth. In regards to the combative element of WKD, the maximum sort of fighting is when a single reaches a spiritual point out or Bruce Lee's philosophy of “the artwork of combating with no fighting”. By reaching a non secular state, which is the final focus of WKD, 1 can offer with adverse circumstances with their interior becoming rather than just one's bodily skills entirely. Mr. Fong credits his affiliation with Bruce Lee for much of his perception into the conceptual factors of the martial arts. As I have been finding out from Mr. Fong, I imagine WKD is a best illustration of the arts getting a way of life, a philosophy that I individually adhere to. As I indulge myself wholeheartedly into WKD, I know that I will maintain getting new perception into an approach that Mr. Fong created and continue to give me new views in the arts. I also want to thank Adam James for using the time to assist me with my education in WKD.

In the early 70's, an additional special implementation that produced Mr. Fong a stand out in the martial arts local community was combining fat training with martial arts. Throughout a time when this integration was not popular, he introduced mild to this powerful instruction method. So, it is no shock that Mr. Fong would generate an exercising software that focuses on leisure, deep breathing, and effective circular actions with the use of light dumbbells called Chi Fung. What I identified with this exercise system is that regardless of whether one particular is 23 or one hundred and one, Chi Fung is the ideal exercise system to bridge the gap with the ages. As I participated in Leo Fongs courses, I glanced all around the area with the a lot of in attendance, and I observed that all the men and women that ended up taking part in the Chi Fung class ended up peaceful, retaining up with the regimen all whilst sustaining wonderful kind and deep breathing. Every single and each one particular of us ended up diverse ages, had distinct conditions, various health problems but we all had 1 thing in typical which was placing our all into Leo Fong's Chi Fung class. What I personally felt by way of this physical exercise software was the feeling of a great all round entire body exercise. The consistency of making use of weights with the variation of strikes and circular actions makes this exercise plan really successful and a leading plan for injuries prevention and overall excellent well being. I feel extremely honored to have been ranked and certified in Wei Kuen Do and Chi Fung underneath Grandmaster Leo Fong on January 2012. I will often uphold these accolades with the greatest regard and a lot pleasure. I will continue to excellent, symbolize to the greatest of my talents, and carry on his artwork and workout plan for a long time to come.

Tiger Claw Martial Arts, Martial Arts Mart, and Kung Fu Tai Chi Magazine

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