San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
California coach Joanne Boyle called it the "Sammy and Jantel Show," and the curtain went up just when No. 3 Ohio State got into trouble. Lavender broke out of a shooting lump to score 11 points during a big second-half surge, and the Buckeyes beat No. 22...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Cal coach Joanne Boyle called it the "Sammy and Jantel Show," and the curtain went up just when No. 3 Ohio State got into trouble. Jantel Lavender broke out of a shooting slump to score 11 of her 33 points during a big second-half surge, and Ohio State beat...
Women's Hoops Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Morris Phillips of East Bay Express does a really nice piece on Cal coach Joanne Boyle: A Coach's Job Begins Off the Court : Coach Joanne Boyle has built the Cal women's basketball program by treating team members as people as well as players. It was Boyle's big break — if only she could find common ground with a close-knit and probably skeptical group of players....
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Cal coach Joanne Boyle knew she had a unique challenge on her hands this season. All she had to do was look at the roster. Freshman, freshman, freshman ... All told, there were seven freshmen and five returning players from last season's Sweet 16 team. Boyle...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... freshman Brittney Griner and her attempts to dunk.“It’s great for the women’s game,” Cal Coach Joanne Boyle said. “You just don’t see it that often.”Cal’s players know that the 6-foot-8 Griner’s dunking could be a big boost for their sport, but they would rather it not happen against them. Griner is trying become the seventh woman to dunk in a college game and the first since Tennessee’s...
The FanHouse - NCAAbasketball (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
by Michelle Smith Filed under: California , Pac-10 , Women's Basketball Joanne Boyle came to Cal four years ago as the head coach, inheriting a team built on freshmen talent. And here she is again, in a gym full of young, inexperienced players, not entirely sure what she has or how they will perform when games begin in two weeks. "It's going to be an interesting season," Boyle...
