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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 4573873, member: 6620"] Nice article on ND's Head Coach Niele Ivey in The Athletic. Don't know if you can get behind the firewall, but if you can it's very well worth reading. [URL unfurl="true"]https://theathletic.com/4304049/2023/03/14/niele-ivey-notre-dame-ncaa-tournament/[/URL] [LIST] [*]Nice quotes from former teammates Kelly Simeon Dayo and Ruth Riley Hunter. [*]Shows how tight she is with the McGuff family (who coached her at ND) [*]Coach Carol Owens pops up here, as she did with any article about Muffet McGraw. Her longstanding presence in the ND program cannot be underestimated from a continuity aspect, as is her work with posts (Riley, Natalie Achonwa, Jessica Shepard, etc.) [*]Uses interactions with Cass Prosper as an example of Niele's approach to working with young players. [/LIST] Coach Ivey's first year was a difficult one: first-year NC who had been away the prior season and she had to operate with an incoming class she didn't sign under Covid protocols. Some mis-steps and a lot of learning moments, but she's turned it around. Of course, two of her first moves gave a cushion/head-start: getting commitments from Olivia Miles and Sonia Citron and bringing in Dara Mabrey. [/QUOTE]