University of Minnesota Athletics
Gopher Athletics: Week in Review (July 25-31)
7/31/2020 3:50:00 PM | Athletics
GopherSports.com: Sophomore Grace Curran erased a five-stroke deficit and won the Golfweek Midwest Collegiate on the first playoff hole in West Lafayette, Ind. Teammate Emma Carpenter finished sixth.
GopherSports.com: Senior Thomas Longbella cruised to a 10-shot win to claim the 119th Wisconsin State Amateur Championship. He was previously a two-time runner-up.
@GopherMGolf: Senior Angus Flanagan earned medalist honors at the Western Amateur on Thursday. He fell in the match play round of 16 on Friday.
GopherSports.com: Women's Basketball Associate Head Coach Carly Thibault-Dudonis is this week's guest on the Golden Gopher Podcast.
@GopherMTennis: Coach Geoff Young was asked to pick his all-time 6-man singles lineup from players during his tenure.
GopherSports.com: Before beginning the Stanley Cup Playoffs this weekend, Brady Skjei joined Wally Shaver from the NHL bubble in the latest Gopher Talk episode.
GopherSports.com: An NCAA-best 17 Gopher alums have made NHL rosters for the Stanley Cup Playoffs, which kick off on Saturday.
GopherSports.com: Men's Hockey alum Blake Wheeler has been nominated for the 2019-20 King Clancy Memorial Trophy.
GopherSports.com: Cross Country and Track & Field's Jack Manderscheid was also a guest on Gopher Talk with Mike Grimm.
GopherSports.com: Get to know new Softball Associate Head Coach Carly Wynn in this Q&A from Athletic Communications.
SoftballAmerica.com: Wynn also talked with Softball America about her journey from Florida State to Minnesota.
@FSNorth: Rachel Banham had 13 points on five-of-six shooting in the Minnesota Lynx's two-point win against Chicago on Thursday.
KSTP.com: Coach Richard Pitino joined Darren Wolfson on KSTP to talk about summer workouts.
KSTP.com: Wolfson also caught up with junior shooting guard Gabe Kalscheur.
ESPN.com: Amir Coffey hit his only shot – a three-pointer – in five minutes of action in the L.A. Clippers' game against the Lakers on Thursday.
@GopherMBB: Daniel Oturu has been invited to the upcoming NBA Combine.
CityPages.com: Rashod Bateman and P.J. Fleck were named Best College Athlete and Best Coach, respectively, in City Pages' Best of the Twin Cities annual feature.
GopherSports.com: Tanner Morgan was one of 30 quarterbacks to be named to the Manning Award watch list.
GopherSports.com: Morgan was also named to the Wuerffel Trophy watch list for the 2020 season.
GopherSports.com: Morgan and Jacob Herbers joined Casey O'Brien to look back at Casey's first collegiate action against Rutgers last fall.
GopherSports.com: A trio of Volleyball alums – Erica Handley, Molly Lohman and Paige Tapp – are scheduled to compete in the Athletes Unlimited Volleyball pro indoor league next winter.
KFAN.com (2:45 mark): Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren joined Paul Allen on KFAN on Monday morning.
GopherSports.com: Former three-sport star Noel Jenke passed away last week. He earned seven letters in football, hockey and baseball.
GopherSports.com: After completing his playing career in 2019, Football's Winston DeLattiboudere will serve as a graduate assistant coach with the Charlotte 49ers.
@Coach_Fleck: Go behind the scenes of week two of Gopher Football workouts.
SaturdayTradition.com: Saturday Tradition's Phil Ervin had a lengthy feature on Football's Seth Green, his playing career and his community activism.
@GopherSwimDive: Haley Spencer looked back on her NCAA Championship performance in the 200 breaststroke in 2011.
@GopherSwimDive: Max McHugh reflects on his 2020 Big Ten Championship in the 100 breaststroke.