Articles Tagged: Lisa Bluder

Iowa women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder talked for the first time about her recruiting class of 2023, including Ava Jones, who is recovering from a tragic incident last summer.

Caitlin Clark bounced back from a turned ankle and a bloody lip, and the No. 4-ranked Iowa women’s basketball team won its 23rd consecutive season-opener.

It’s opening night for No. 4-ranked Iowa women’s basketball team. Now, where does the (playing) time go?

“Pressure is a privilege,” and the No. 4-ranked Iowa Hawkeyes harbor sky-high expectations for the 2022-23 women’s basketball season.

Between questions about the team’s high expectations and unselfishness, the Big Ten Basketball Media Days moderator took a question from a “great budding journalist.” It was actually Caitlin Clark.

Iowa women’s basketball commit Ava Jones tore all four major ligaments in both knees, Lisa Bluder said Thursday. Doctors also are “really working on her brain improvement” three months after a vehicle struck her and her family.

From the “front lines” of the fight to keep Title IX’s implementation in sports alive to the focus on women’s athletes’ well-being, Christine Grant left quite the legacy both at Iowa and across the country.

Moment No. 6: Lisa Bluder and Megan Gustafson became the first player-coach duo from the Big Ten to sweep the Naismith National Coach of the Year and National Player of the Year awards.

Moment No. 8: In a 22-day period, Iowa women’s basketball won two Big Ten championships and had three sellouts at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

Moment No. 11: Lisa Bluder became the 14th Division I women’s basketball coach to win 800 career games in 2021.

Moment No. 28: Lisa Bluder has a “magical” first season at Iowa, leading a group that won only nine games in 1999-00 to a Big Ten tournament title in 2000-01.

Moment No. 42 in The Gazette’s 50 Iowa moments since Title IX series is Iowa hiring Lisa Bluder as women’s basketball head coach in 2000. She faced some obstacles leading up to that moment.

Iowa women’s basketball head coach Lisa Bluder had some initial concerns about NIL, but now she asks “why should they not” get these opportunities to make money and develop “so many business skills.”

As The Gazette counts down the top 50 moments in Iowa women’s athletics history ahead of the 50th anniversary of Title IX, No. 45 is Lisa Bluder’s 270th win at Iowa —more wins than any other coach in Iowa basketball history.

Much was accomplished by the Iowa women’s basketball team in 2021-22, but an early NCAA exit leaves a bad blemish. Next season will begin with high hopes and much hype.