Hailey Van Lith: Rising Star in Women's College Basketball

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The sport of women’s college basketball has been making waves, and if former Louisville star Hailey Van Lith ends up at LSU, it could reach new heights. A visit to LSU’s campus earlier this week suggests that Van Lith could be joining forces with Angel Reese, coached by Kim Mulkey, to create a team that is sure to make an impact. Not only will this be an exciting move for the sport, but it will also confront America’s racism and bias against Black women.

Van Lith’s brashness on the court, combined with her impressive game, is sure to make her a valuable asset to any team. But with her potential arrival at LSU, it’s her cockiness that’s got people talking. Van Lith and Reese have both been on the receiving end of criticism for their on-court trash talk, with Reese being called “classless” after taunting and trash-talking in the same fashion as her opponents. However, Van Lith’s presence at LSU would create a team that is impossible to accept one’s cockiness and not the other’s, and this could be exactly what women’s college basketball needs to confront America’s double standards.

Van Lith’s potential arrival at LSU also means that she will be coached by Kim Mulkey, a woman who has a reputation for putting her foot in her mouth when it comes to setting back women and women’s sports. Mulkey’s upcoming visit to the White House to meet with President Biden, who helped free Brittney Griner, the best player she ever coached, whom Mulkey publicly left unsupported as she sat in a Russian prison, makes this an even more intriguing story.

Re-reported from the story originally published in.. https://deadspin.com/