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Georgia women’s basketball officially hires new head coach

Welcome back to Athens Coach Abe!

Only a few days after Joni Taylor ended her 7-year tenure at UGA for a job at Texas A&M, the Lady Bulldogs have hired Katie Abrahamson-Henderson as their head coach.

Abrahamson-Henderson, affectionately known as Coach Abe, played two years for the Lady Bulldogs under Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame coach Andy Landers. She has returned to Athens after coaching at the University of Central Florida since 2016.

UCF had 5 consecutive losing seasons prior to Coach Abe’s arrival, and under her coaching prowess the program improved to a 89-40 record and made it to the NCAA tournament three times during her 6-year run.

When asked about getting the job, Coach Abe stated:

This is a dream come true. I am thrilled to return to Georgia as the head coach at one of the premier womenโ€™s basketball programs in the country.

In the 2021-22 season under Coach Taylor, the Lady Bulldogs went 20-8, and they finished 6th in the SEC.

Report: NCAA to allow voluntary football, basketball workouts

According to Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports, the NCAA voted Wednesday to allow athletes back on campus. Dates and details here

According to Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports, the NCAA voted Wednesday to allow athletes back on campus starting June 1 for voluntary football and basketball workouts.

Thamel wrote:

“An NCAA vote Wednesday cleared the return of student-athletes to campus in football, menโ€™s basketball and womenโ€™s basketball on June 1 through June 30, multiple sources told Yahoo Sports.”

The decision ends the COVID-19 lock-down on athletic activities on campuses through May 31 and is, though just a small step towards normalcy, great news for sports fans and athletes around the country.

Sources reportedly told Yahoo Sports that the Division 1 council will vote on other sports besides football and basketball as soon as possible.

As far as testing procedures, it will be up to the individual school’s and state’s procedures and guidelines, according to Yahoo Sports’ sources.

“It will be up to the schools and political decision-makers to develop protocols on the tests, which cost approximately $100 each,” Thamel added. “โ€œNo one wants to get into that,โ€ said a source. โ€œThey want to leave it to your own campus and state.โ€”

The 2020 college football season is set to begin August 29 and Georgia football is scheduled to start its season in Atlanta versus Virginia on Sept. 7. What that will look like remains to be known. Last week, NCAA President Mark Emmert said:

“All of the commissioners and every president that I’ve talked to is in clear agreement: If you don’t have students on campus, you don’t have student-athletes on campus. That doesn’t mean [the school] has to be up and running in the full normal model, but you have to treat the health and well-being of the athletes at least as much as the regular students. … If a school doesn’t reopen, then they’re not going to be playing sports. It’s really that simple.”

If the season does go on, most likely there will be a very limited number of people involved and judging by Emmert’s comments and the NBA’s reported plan of resuming their season without fans, we could also see a start to the football season without people in attendance.