Kim Mulkey is adding WNBA Hall of Famer Seimone Augustus to her staff, and fans are over the moon about the news.
LSU’s 2023-2024 season wasn’t exactly what it hoped, and without Angel Reese and Hailey Van Lith in the starting lineup, things are going to look much different for 2024. But perhaps that’s not such a bad thing.
Head coach Kim Mulkey is adding four-time WNBA champion, three-time Olympian and Hall of Famer Seimone Augustus to her coaching staff. It’s a reunion for Seimone as she returns back to the same place where she spent her college career. According to Andscape‘s Sean Hurd, coaching is something that Augustus has been eying for quite some time now, and she’s got Hall of Fame aspirations for this chapter of her life as well.
Here’s what she told Hurd last year:
“I’m trying to do it all over again. I didn’t know that you could go in [to the Hall of Fame] multiple times – player, coach, whatever. I think it wasn’t until Bill Russell went in there as a player (1975) and coach (2021) where I was like oh, you could do that? I was like, ‘yeah, I’m going back in there.’ That’s my goal, to try and do this all over again. We’ll be sitting here again like, ‘hey, you’re going into the Women’s Hall of Fame and Naismith as a coach,’ hopefully. That’s the goal.”
Coach Money has a nice ring to it!@KimMulkey has hired @seimoneaugustus as an assistant coach on the LSU Women's Basketball staff!
📄 https://t.co/lZmLledtG6 pic.twitter.com/eXzyHra44c
— LSU Women's Basketball (@LSUwbkb) May 20, 2024
The hiring has hoops fans so excited, and even current LSU players Flau’jae Johnson and Sa’Myah Smith couldn’t contain their excitement. Here’s how everyone reacted:
I get to learn from THE Seimone Augustus everyday… woah🐯 https://t.co/pqhspHiax0
— Flaujae 4️⃣ (@Flaujae) May 20, 2024
COACH MONEYYYY🔥🐯!!!!! https://t.co/yee8wLQkHs
— Sa'Myah Smith (@samyahsmith5) May 20, 2024
Seimone Augustus to the LSU coaching staff.. HUGE acquisition by the staff.
This will impact recruiting and having WNBA/championship experience on the staff will help further the player-development even more, especially in the guard room. Great day to be a Tiger! 🐅💜💛@LSUwbkb https://t.co/I5HgCER6Xt pic.twitter.com/JWMKHB1h0J
— JB Johnson (@jbjohnson__23) May 20, 2024
What Mulkey is doing for this program is absolutely phenomenal. The haters gon hate. But Mulkey really need her props for the moves she’s making for the success of this program as a whole. 💜💛🐯 https://t.co/YgjVTbzC3m
— Big Chief Tiger!! (@OGTreauxlGawd) May 20, 2024
I’ve seen enough! National Championship game here we come! pic.twitter.com/HKIaNSMCXB
— 💜 (@thefutxre) May 20, 2024
Let’s geaux!!! 🗣️ pic.twitter.com/86OLo8At63
— Moolah (@prodbymoolah) May 20, 2024
Come on somebody!!!! Congratulations Seimone!!!!! pic.twitter.com/YTkR5ybuPr
— SixSicSins♠️ (@KGD1795) May 20, 2024
— Isaac Brown (@IkeBrownFAMU) May 20, 2024
