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Kim Mulkey is adding WNBA Hall of Famer Seimone Augustus to her LSU staff and fans are thrilled

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For The Win (usatoday.com) 

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.”

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: