Category: Tennessee Lady Vols

The Lady Vols held their first official basketball practice of the 2023-24 season on Wednesday, and fifth-year head coach Kellie Harper put her 13-player squad through a spirited two-hour workout in Pratt Pavilion. The team has been in the midst of preseason on-court activities and strength and conditioning workouts, but Wednesday’s gathering had a different feel. Coaches…

The Associated Press announced on Tuesday that it has named LVFL and Seattle Storm forward Jordan Horston to its WNBA All-Rookie Team. Horston, who starred at Tennessee from 2019-23 and was the No. 9 overall pick in the 2023 WNBA Draft by the Storm, was one of five players chosen to the squad. The official WNBA awards will…

The WNBA Playoffs get underway this week, with the eight qualifying teams beginning first-round play on Wednesday or Friday. Five squads with LVFL connections are among those making the postseason cut. On Wednesday, the No. 1 seed Las Vegas Aces (34-6) host the No. 8 seed Chicago Sky (18-22) at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN. Las…

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – The late Pat (Head) Summitt, Patricia “Trish” Roberts and Cindy Brogdon will be inducted with their 1976 United States Women’s Olympic teammates this weekend with the Class of 2023 into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Summitt, who was already enshrined individually in 2000 as head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady…

OKLAHOMA CITY – Smashing two multi-run home runs, the fourth-ranked Lady Vols rolled past the Crimson Tide on Thursday in their first game of the 2023 Women’s College World Series, 10-5, at OGE Energy Field. Tennessee’s (50-8) bottom half of the lineup was exceptional in the victory. The six through nine hitters – freshman Jamison Brockenbrough, junior Giulia Koutsoyanopulos,…

Tennessee (4-5) will try to get back in the winning column and even its season record when it welcomes the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (6-4) to Thompson-Boling Arena on Tuesday at 6:32 p.m. ET. The contest marks the Lady Vols’ fourth of a six-game home stand and a stretch of nine out of 11…

No. 11/12 Tennessee (1-2) will meet Rutgers (3-1) in Imperial Arena on Paradise Island, Bahamas, at noon ET on Saturday in the first game of the 2022 Bad Boy Mowers Women’s Battle 4 Atlantis. The Lady Vols enter the tournament having faced three teams who participated in the 2022 NCAA Tournament, including No. 14/15 Ohio…

2022-23 Wooden Award Women’s Preseason Watch List KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The John R. Wooden Award® presented by Wendy’s® announced the Women’s Preseason Top 50 Watch List on ESPN.com, and three Tennessee standouts are included in that group. Chosen by a preseason poll of national college basketball experts, the list is comprised of 50 student-athletes who are the early…

Tennessee Athletics The bracket for the 2022 Bad Boy Mowers Women’s Battle 4 Atlantis has been released, and Tennessee women’s basketball will open play vs. Rutgers at noon ET on Saturday, Nov. 19, in Imperial Arena at the Atlantis Paradise Island resort in The Bahamas. The winner of that contest will return to action on Sunday,…

Tennessee Athletics KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Brian Rice, an award-winning sports talk show host and broadcaster with 10 years of experience as the highly-respected radio play-by-play announcer for Lady Vol softball, was announced Tuesday as the new voice of Lady Vol basketball. Rice, a Knoxville native who became a Big Orange fan-favorite behind the microphone at softball games…