Long Beach State women’s basketball head coach Jody Wynn announced the signing of her first recruiting class on Thursday. Janae Coffee, Chantel Dooley and Brandi Henton each penned National Letters of Intent to play for the 49ers in 2010. “We are extremely happy with our early signees,” Wynn said in[Read More…]
Women’s Basketball
SEASON PREVIEW: 49ers prepare for first season of Wynn era
There’s a new aura surrounding the Long Beach State women’s basketball team this season. First-year head coach Jody Wynn’s infectious, upbeat personality has spread like a wild fire as she works to sell her approach of playing basketball to a team that finished 8-21 last season. And early on, the[Read More…]
LBSU women’s basketball picked 5th
All signs point to progress for first-year head coach Jody Wynn after inheriting a team that finished at the bottom of the Big West Conference last season. The 49ers gathered 99 points and were selected to finish fifth in the Big West Preseason Media Poll. Coach Wynn doesn’t think much[Read More…]
Big West coaches create hell’s kitchen
Big West Media Day coverage ANAHEIM — Basketball coaches turned in their playbooks for aprons and cookbooks Tuesday at the ESPN Zone at Downtown Disney. Featuring just the Southern California-based schools, five of the nine Big West Conference men’s and women’s head coaches competed in a cook-off as part of[Read More…]
Coaches cook up season outlook
Cook-off coverage ANAHEIM — Before doing battle on the court, the Big West Conference men’s and women’s basketball coaches had the opportunity to face-off in the kitchen Tuesday at the ESPN Zone at Downtown Disney. Afterward, the collection of five Southern California Big West schools — Cal State Fullerton, Cal[Read More…]
Wynn makes first decision, adds 3 assistant coaches
First-year head coach Jody Wynn announced her three new women’s basketball assistants Tuesday: her husband Derek Wynn, Jeffrey Cammon and Laura Freimuth. An expected hire, Derek Wynn earned a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from Cal State Fullerton in 1996. He then went on to obtain his master’s and a teaching[Read More…]
Not wasting time: Wynn conducts first practice
VIDEO: Jody Wynn’s first practice and the rest of Beach News It didn’t take long for the Long Beach State women’s basketball team to figure out practices would be run differently this season. Just six days on the job, new head coach Jody Wynn conducted her first on-court activities with[Read More…]
Jody Wynn named new women’s basketball coach
Jody Wynn will be named the new Long Beach State women’s basketball head coach, according to the school’s athletic Web site. An advertisement appeared on the right-hand side of the site around 2:25 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. A press conference is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. today in the Ukleja Room of[Read More…]
Beach women hire ‘Wynn’-er from USC
VIDEO: Jody Wynn introduced as the sixth women’s basketball coach in LBSU history Jody Wynn has big plans for a Long Beach State women’s basketball team that finished last in the Big West Conference last season. Wynn was named the new women’s head basketball coach at Long Beach State on[Read More…]
New women’s hoops coach to be named Tuesday
The search for a new Long Beach State women’s basketball coach is over. Members of the athletic department would not release the name but a press conference is scheduled Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in the Ukleja Room of the Walter Pyramid. A live stream of the press conference will be[Read More…]