"Lisa Bluder" is the head coach for the University of Iowa/Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball program. She is an alumna of the University of Northern Iowa, 1983 and Linn-Mar High School, 1979.

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Last year she was third-team all-Big Ten and I think that's way too low.

Like any good cook, you go back in the kitchen and you revamp your recipe and you take what you have on hand and you still make up something pretty good. And I think after spending the last two months with the women on our team, I think that with certainty we can whip up something pretty good.

Even if they're not in the starting lineup, they're going to play so much time. So we're going to be an incredibly young basketball team.

I think we all felt a little bitter. When that announcement was made, every one of us had a pit in our stomach. Hopefully, the team used that as motivation throughout the summer. I know the coaching staff used it as motivation during the summer - that we didn't want to be back in the (WNIT).

We're going to be an incredibly young basketball team, but sometimes that's fun, too. Sometimes they don't know what they're in for, so it's kind of fun to watch them go through that.

The first from Lindsay, and then from Jo.

This summer I was feeling really good about what kind of basketball team that we could create.

She is going to be a very, very good basketball player.

She's a phenomenal athlete and this year we're going to have the luxury of being able to keep her at the off-guard position.