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Message: [QUOTE="YoDore, post: 5194529, member: 12010"] It hasn't been mentioned. I'm sure it's nothing negative, though. Shea and Katie Lou seem to have a great relationship. The way they approached it was that Katie Lou was taking the opportunity to dip her toe into coaching to see how she liked it. She and Kyla Irwin both took advantage of that NCAA initiative to allow some staff members to become part of coaching staff for that very reason. The fact that Lou had just had a baby and did not want to travel overseas to play again was also mentioned. Maybe Unrivaled was a factor this year. She was originally hired as director of player development and retained those duties even after adding coaching duties later. Not sure if there are plans for her to eventually return to that position. All indications are that she is much loved around the program. Funny story: While waiting for the paperwork to go through to hire Lou for the player development role, she wasn't sitting on the bench with the team but sat in a seat behind the bench. When South Carolina came to play, Shea said during pre-game warmups Dawn came down and said her players wanted to meet Katie Lou and asked if it would be OK. Shea got a kick out of, and, of course, said they could. She later kidded that's when she realized Katie Lou might be a big deal. [/QUOTE]