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Danielle Ballard will not return to LSUWBB for senior season
Posted on 6/27/15 at 12:43 pm
Posted on 6/27/15 at 12:43 pm
DailyReveille Sports ?@TDR_sports 1m1 minute ago
Guard Danielle Ballard will not return to #LSU for her senior season, according to news release
Guard Danielle Ballard will not return to #LSU for her senior season, according to news release
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BATON ROUGE – The LSU women’s basketball program has started its preparations for the 205-16 season and is in the midst of its three-week summer workout program.
The Lady Tigers have been working out in position groups on the court. LSU also has held strength and conditioning training in the weight room led by Melissa Seal.
“I’ve been extremely impressed and pleased with how our players have performed in our summer workout program,” head coach Nikki Caldwell said. “It lays the foundation and serves as the building blocks for success for the upcoming season. The future is bright for our program, and I couldn’t be more excited with how our preparation for 2015-16 has started.”
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Danielle Ballard will not return to LSU for her senior season.
“We appreciate all that Danielle has done for our program during her time at LSU,” Caldwell said. “We wish her nothing but the best and success in her future endeavors.”
This post was edited on 6/27/15 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 6/27/15 at 12:45 pm to quail man
Oh shite.
This thread will be interesting in a lot of aspects.
In.
This thread will be interesting in a lot of aspects.
In.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 12:50 pm to quail man
Here is the full release...I love how the news of Ballard not returning is just kind of an "oh, by the way", hidden deep in the story. Kudos to the Reveille for reading the entire release, which is virtually worthless otherwise.
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BATON ROUGE – The LSU women’s basketball program has started its preparations for the 205-16 season and is in the midst of its three-week summer workout program.
The Lady Tigers have been working out in position groups on the court. LSU also has held strength and conditioning training in the weight room led by Melissa Seal.
“I’ve been extremely impressed and pleased with how our players have performed in our summer workout program,” head coach Nikki Caldwell said. “It lays the foundation and serves as the building blocks for success for the upcoming season. The future is bright for our program, and I couldn’t be more excited with how our preparation for 2015-16 has started.”
LSU boasts five newcomers on its roster for the 2015-16 campaign.
Alexis Hyder, a 5-11 forward, who practiced with the Lady Tigers last season after she transferred to LSU from North Texas will start her redshirt junior season in 2015-16. She was an All-Sun Belt pick and started 51 of 59 games for the Mean Green in her first two seasons. Hyder posted 14.2 points, 8.8 rebounds and 1.0 blocks per game as a freshman.
Ayana Mitchell and Shanice Norton will begin their freshman seasons. Mitchell is a 6-2 forward from Conyers, Georgia and was ranked as a Top 50 player by a vast number of recruiting websites including ESPNW. She is four-star recruit who amassed 18.1 points, 12.4 rebounds, 3.7 steals and 1.0 blocks per game en route to Class 5A All-State First-Team accolades.
Norton, a 5-8 guard from London, England, will represent her native country on the U18 squad at the 2015 FIBA European Championship. She also comes from a championship pedigree and won a pair of state titles at the Potter’s House Christian Academy in Florida.
Transfers Chloe Jackson, a 5-9 guard from Upper Marlboro, Maryland, along with Tatum Neubert, a 6-2 forward from Elizabeth, Colorado, will sit out the 2015-16 season due to NCAA transfer rules.
Jackson was named the Washington Post’s Girls Basketball Player of the Year and garnered Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) High School All-America Honorable Mention stats during her high school career.
Neubert secured McDonalds High School All-America nominee and was a Colorado Class 4A All-State First-Team selection as a high school senior. She also was the state’s leading scorer at 22.7 points per game and was a three-time conference Player of the Year recipient.
Danielle Ballard will not return to LSU for her senior season.
“We appreciate all that Danielle has done for our program during her time at LSU,” Caldwell said. “We wish her nothing but the best and success in her future endeavors.”
LSU has collected four consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances highlighted by a pair of NCAA Sweet 16 trips under Caldwell. The Lady Tigers also have secured a trio of 20-plus win seasons and have reached at least 10 SEC victories three times with Caldwell at the helm.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 12:58 pm to LSUGrad9295
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I love how the news of Ballard not returning is just kind of an "oh, by the way", hidden deep in the story
And the next "NIKKI CALDWELL IS SO INCREDIBLE!" paragraph is longer than that sentence.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 1:01 pm to lsutigers1992
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And the next "NIKKI CALDWELL IS SO INCREDIBLE!" paragraph is longer than that sentence.
Well, it IS an LSU press release.
But still...
Posted on 6/27/15 at 1:02 pm to quail man
Yikes. We were pretty terrible without her last year. This could be bad.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 1:09 pm to Pelican fan99
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Yikes. We were pretty terrible without her last year. This could be bad.
I don't possibly see how this can end well for all involved. Unless the freshman from Georgia is an absolute monster and Alexis Hyder is somehow productive, this could be a borderline disastrous season. And I am usually a "posi-LadyTiger"
Posted on 6/27/15 at 1:44 pm to LSUGrad9295
We have to be happy at getting into the big dance, even if we never again win a game there. But I am confident that in 10 years or so and with great recruiting classes as we have seen from nikkie she will have us back to where we were with pokey, unless its the program that gets poked.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 1:53 pm to quail man
Don't mind have a bad year in wbb to fire nikki
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:01 pm to LSUGrad9295
Yeah I had to delete a lot of bulkshit to get there. Talk about proper PR and burying the lede
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:40 pm to quail man
Nikki whats really going on?
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:49 pm to jumpman24
There's not a big conspiracy on this one. Ballard's been suspended every year of her career with increasing degrees of punishment. Last year was half a season so only one option left.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 3:33 pm to saintsfan22
I originally thought hiring the coach from UCLA was a good hire. I was wrong. I don't see the program getting stronger, even a little bit at a time.
Unless we show strong improvement, it's time to look elsewhere, IF we want to compete on the highest level.
Unless we show strong improvement, it's time to look elsewhere, IF we want to compete on the highest level.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 3:41 pm to quail man
Les miles has lost control of women's basketball
Posted on 6/27/15 at 3:59 pm to Loveland Tiger
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I originally thought hiring the coach from UCLA was a good hire. I was wrong. I don't see the program getting stronger, even a little bit at a time.
Unless we show strong improvement, it's time to look elsewhere, IF we want to compete on the highest level.
I just don't understand how she can't recruit to save her life. she comes off as so charismatic, smart, and had a great resume before she came to LSU.
Sometimes good coaches just don't work out at programs, and this is starting to look like the case with Caldwell. Let's not sugarcoat it. We're going to suck next season. Though I was distracted by the other spring sports excelling, I forgot she STILL didn't bring in an assistant with recruiting ties. She's fricked, and this is coming from a positiger
Posted on 6/27/15 at 4:09 pm to tigerbait2010
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I just don't understand how she can't recruit to save her life. she comes off as so charismatic, smart, and had a great resume before she came to LSU.
Hmm, sounds like another basketball coach in LSU's recent past.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 4:19 pm to DrSteveBrule
Pay NC and CJJ each about 150K more a year.
Have NC be the bench coach for the men's team. That's her strength.
Have CJJ recruit for the women's team. That's his strength.
Problem solved.
Have NC be the bench coach for the men's team. That's her strength.
Have CJJ recruit for the women's team. That's his strength.
Problem solved.
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