Why UConn WBB’s trip to Naval Academy is meaningful for coach Geno Auriemma

[BRS24]

As the wife of a USNA grad, and lucky to have been on the Yard a few times, it's always special to visit.

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Auriemma said he likes to expose players to the unique lifestyle of military service members to give them perspective about the challenges they go through at UConn.​

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Playing at the Naval Academy is especially meaningful because of his family connection. His wife Kathy’s father Paul Osler played basketball at Navy and graduated in 1932, so Auriemma dug up several of Osler’s old stat sheets in the program’s archives while coaching a USA Basketball training camp at the Annapolis campus before the FIBA World Cup in 2014. The Huskies coach flies a Navy flag next to an American flag outside of his home in Connecticut.​

 

[OldSchooler]

I promise not to hold that against him.

- (USAF, ret)

 

[MSGRET]

I promise not to hold that against him.

- (USAF, ret)

Neither will I, had an older brother who was a Command Master Chief and a seal. We always disagreed on who was the better service and I kept reminding that the Navy was 4 months younger than the Army.

MSG, USA ret