#kathy-delaney-smith

#kathy-delaney-smith

Union Berlin has made history after appointing Marie-Louise Eta as their new head coach, becoming the first club in Europe's top five leagues to have a female head coach. Eta takes the job on an interim basis until the end of the season, having previously served as the club's assistant and U19 manager.

I sat in her office for two hours, soaking in her words of wisdom. She had a gift for making you feel immediately at ease. She also had an incredible ability to stare down doubt. That stare could quiet a room. It could tell you something about yourself.

"How much is it going to cost us? That's the conversation. You've got to lead with that. Because you don't really want to waste your time."

She's so incredibly shifty. She's really dynamic. She's one of the most talented scorers and makes big shots at critical moments. - Mitty coach Sue Phillips describing Kaleena Smith's playing style and ability to perform in crucial moments during the championship game.

Chatsworth girls basketball coach Kaio Lewis was confronted by the relative of a Chatsworth player on Friday night after his team's game at Taft, people with knowledge of the incident not authorized to discuss it publicly told The Times. It became a physical and verbal altercation that is now being investigated by the L.A. School Police Department.

"We are so much more than wins. At the end of the day, I'm proud of what we do here at UCLA in very hard moments."

WHEN MEGAN GRANT sits in the front row of her Intro to Gender Studies class at UCLA, she's enjoying the only rest she'll get all day. It's game day for the UCLA women's basketball team. Grant has 10 hours until she'll take the court for the Bruins. But before putting on her basketball jersey, the UCLA dual athlete will have weight training, class and softball practice. The senior softball star has a career .727 slugging percentage, .978 fielding percentage and earned the Big Ten single-season record for home runs with 26 in 2025.

A short-handed Stanford women's basketball team couldn't take advantage of an opportunity to improve its NCAA Tournament resume Thursday, falling 84-66 to No. 7 Louisville at Maples Pavilion. Stanford (15-7, 4-5 ACC) committed 10 turnovers in the second quarter as the Cardinals took an 18-point halftime lead in their first-ever trip to The Farm and maintained a double-digit lead throughout the second half.

But as No. 8 Iowa climbed back in Thursday's third quarter, threatening to deal USC another disappointing result, Smith, the Trojans' sophomore leader, took matters into her own hands. She drove once, then again, then again. Four times in a matter of three minutes, Smith attacked the hoop, carrying the weight of USC's weeks-long slump on her shoulders as she did. When the Trojans' attack finally let up, they were well out in front again, rolling to an 81-69 victory.