Walz to Participate in Women’s Basketball National Media Day on Tuesday
October 31, 2016 | Women's Basketball
Head coach Jeff Walz is entering his 10th season at the helm of the Louisville program.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – University of Louisville's Jeff Walz is one of six head coaches nationally who has been selected to participate on Tuesday in the Women's Basketball National Media Day, an event hosted by the NCAA and ESPN.
Walz, who is entering his 10th season at the helm of Louisville's program, will take part in the event held on ESPN's campus in Bristol, Conn.
Content throughout the day will be gathered for later use on various ESPN platforms. Walz's schedule includes a sit-down with ESPN analyst Doris Burke, a session with NCAA and ESPN social media platforms, an interview with ESPN.com national women's college basketball writer Mechelle Voepel, and participation on espnW podcasts.
In addition to exposure through the numerous ESPN platforms, additional breakout interviews with the participants will be conducted by regional and national media agencies that will also be in attendance at ESPN's headquarters in Connecticut.
Walz joins five other coaches on ESPN's campus on Tuesday, consisting of Connecticut's Geno Auriemma, UCLA's Cori Close, Notre Dame's Muffet McGraw, South Carolina's Dawn Staley, and Texas' Karen Aston. There also will be six student-athlete participants at the event: Tennessee's Diamond DeShields, Ohio State's Kelsey Mitchell, Washington's Kelsey Plum, Florida State's Leticia Romero, Notre Dame's Brianna Turner and South Carolina's A'ja Wilson.
The 2017 Women's Final Four in Dallas will mark the first time that the city has played host to the event. In the 35 previous Women's Final Four's going into 2017, 14 different teams have captured the national championship. For the 15th-consecutive year, ESPN and ESPN2 will broadcast all 63 games of the 2017 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship. This marks the 22nd-consecutive year (since 1996) ESPN is the championship's exclusive television home.
Louisville, under Walz, is coming off one of its best conference marks in school history, logging a 15-1 record in 2015 that contained a 10-game win streak, and finishing in the top five in the league in multiple statistical categories. ACC Player of the Year Myisha Hines-Allen paced the Cardinals, who capped the year at 26-8 and No. 8 in the final Associated Press poll.
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