How Jeff Walz built Louisville women's basketball — and did it his way
Jeff Walz has made Louisville Cardinals women's basketball a national powerhouse. A look inside how the longtime UofL women’s basketball coach did it:
Stephanie Norman can’t remember which game it was. Jeff Walz knows it was against a Big East opponent. Probably in 2009?
And it had to be at Freedom Hall . “I’m getting old,” he said. It was Walz’s second season as head coach of Louisville women’s basketball .
The Cardinals were fresh off their first ever Sweet 16 with Deseree’ Byrd at point guard and Angel McCoughtry in the frontcourt. And in the second half of some conference game at Freedom Hall, Walz called a timeout to ask his team a very important question: “Have you guys all seen ‘Mighty Ducks’ ? ” As in the 1992 Disney movie?
About hockey? “No, really,” Walz continued, “have you guys seen the movie ‘Mighty Ducks’? You know the ‘Flying V’?
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