Indiana Women’s Basketball Hires Linda Sayavongchanh as New Assistant Coach

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The Indiana ladies’s basketball crew provides new assistant coach and recruiting coordinator Linda Sayavongchanh to its employees, the league introduced Friday.

“We’re excited to have Linda be part of our household,” Indiana head coach Teri Moren stated.

“Linda has a confirmed observe document of recruiting, creating and training profitable gamers. She has achieved nice success at Creighton together with final season’s Elite Eight run. Her angle, work ethic and competitiveness will match proper in with our tradition right here at Indiana.”

Sayavongchanh spent the final seven seasons at Creighton in the identical place. She helped lead the Bluejays to a few NCAA Event appearances together with this system’s first journey to the Candy 16 and Elite Eight within the 2022 season.

She labored with guards and combo gamers throughout her first 4 years on the job earlier than transferring into mentoring submit gamers over her final three seasons.

Below her steerage, Creighton ladies’s basketball had its first WNBA draft decide in Jaylyn Agnew who was chosen twenty fourth by the Washington Mystics. After being waived, she signed as a free agent with the Atlanta Dream in 2020.

Sayavongchanh additionally labored with All-Large East guards Marissa Janning, Temi Carda, Sydney Lamberty and forwards Audrey Faber, Morgan Maly and Emma Ronsiek.

“I’m past excited to hitch the Hoosier household,” Sayavongchanh stated. 

“I’ve an incredible quantity of respect for Coach Moren and her employees. They’re unbelievable coaches, winners and most of all, nice human beings. I’m trying ahead to serving to Indiana ladies’s basketball proceed to achieve success, and I can’t wait to get to work.” 

Earlier than her teaching profession, Sayavongchanh performed at Drake from 2002-06 and was a three-time All-Missouri Valley Convention choice. She completed her enjoying profession with 1,129 factors and was named to the convention’s All-Defensive crew thrice.

Sayavongchanh spent two years at Saint Louis from 2013-15 and on the bench in North Dakota from 2012-13 in addition to Drake from 2009-12. Her graduate assistant profession started at Minnesota-Duluth from 2007-09.

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