Mar 12, 2020
NCAA Vice President for Women’s Basketball Lynn Holzman sits down with Athletic Director U to dig into the current state and trajectory of women’s basketball. Holzman touches on the strategic plan, response from issues in men’s basketball, the transfer portal, rule changes, and more. Holzman also chats about the value of her past experience as the Commissioner of the West Coast Conference and what she wishes she knew early in her career.
0:57 - How did your experience as Commissioner for the West
Coast Conference help you in your current role?
3:12 - What does not translate from your experience as
Commissioner?
4:47 - Can you provide updates to the women's basketball strategic
plan and what metrics you are using to judge progress?
10:44 - What has the response been from women's basketball coaches
and stakeholders to the events that have transpired in men's
basketball?
12:57 - Where and who is that feedback on those issues coming
from?
14:44 - How is the transfer portal unique to women's
basketball?
16:14 - Can you consciously see a difference in your opinions from
your time as Commissioner to now as the Vice President of Women's
Basketball?
17:20 - What rule changes are potentially on the horizon for
women's basketball?
19:17 - If you could write a letter to your younger self, what
advice would you give yourself and what do you wish you knew when
you got into this industry?
20:33 - What would you point to as a speed bump in your own career
that ended up being beneficial?
22:00 - What do you want the membership to know about the
trajectory of women's basketball?