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Alexa Philippou
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Alexa Philippou
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- Covers ladies’s faculty basketball and the WNBA
- Beforehand lined UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Solar for the Hartford Courant
- Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with additional expertise on the Dallas Morning Information, Seattle Occasions and Cincinnati Enquirer
The WNBA adopted up on an allegation {that a} Seattle Storm assistant coach cursed at a Las Vegas Aces participant after the groups’ sport Sunday in Seattle, a league supply with information of the scenario stated Wednesday. Nonetheless, the supply stated there may be not an investigation into the Storm.
The supply didn’t say who made the allegation or whom it was towards. The Aces beat the Storm 75-70 at Local weather Pledge Enviornment. It was the groups’ second assembly this season; the Storm gained the primary 102-82 on Might 25 in Seattle.
After final season, longtime Storm participant Jewell Loyd filed a criticism towards Seattle’s teaching employees, sources informed ESPN. Subsequently, she requested a commerce and was despatched to Las Vegas in a three-team deal Feb. 1.
The Storm employed a regulation agency to research the accusations of harassment and bullying by the workforce’s coaches relating to participant efficiency. The completion of that investigation was introduced in December with no discovering of any violations.
Storm head coach Noelle Quinn informed reporters in February, “I consider that the group did the correct factor. All through this whole course of, the communication stage was tremendously excessive. I felt supported in loads of methods and I do know my employees felt supported as effectively. With something like this, you will need to take the correct steps and our group did that.”