The Amy Eagan Show

Coach Eagan reviews the 2023-2024 season.  She discusses how many OVC cames her team came up just short of winning.

We again talk about the new basketball facility at Evans Commons.  Coach Eagan shares her excitement with the prospects of LU WBB players developing new skills, shots, and moves with the dedicated facility.

Finally, with the explosion of the popularity of women's basketball, Coach Eagan previews what LU WBB will look like next season.

This week Coach Eagan reviews the UT Martin and Little Rock games.  We also discuss creating traditions, community service, court-storming, and the use of technology in college athletics.

In this week's episode, we talk about close games at SIUE and Eastern Illinois. We learn that 7 games this year have been decided by 6 or fewer points.  More on the improving facilities at Lindenwood, and Coach talks about recruiting and summer basketball for her team.

This week we talk Pink, women's health, Kaliyah Sain, Makayla Cunningham, and a 2 overtime win.

More big news regarding Lindenwood University's new basketball floor practice facility.  Current and future LU Lion's men's and women's basketball teams will have year-round access to a top-flight practice facility on campus.

Finally, Coach Eagan discusses her approach to supporting career guidance to her players.  It is clearly much more about life after basketball.

Here are Coach Eagan's words from the podcast transcript.

That's our number one job (career preparation and guidance). And four years for most of these kids, unless they choose to maybe go overseas, but at some point basketball comes to an end in your life. And you have to be ready to get out into the real world. And so any way we can help them prepare - I think just like you talk about players trying to get scholarships out on the floor in basketball or any sport, it's also trying to separate yourself from other people and jobs, right? 

And so anything we can do to build their resume, to get them internships, early in their career here, to get them to, I think internships are the best way to figure out if it's really a field you want to be in or not too. You know, I think it really is. And we want them to figure that out before they take a job and then say, man, I majored in this and I don't even want to do this. 

We're just trying to help them out as early as we can in their career to really start to figure some things out. And I think that was just such a great experience for them to really get their feet wet with it, to look at even some resume type stuff right now. And they'll be here in the summer a lot. So maybe getting them, whether it is down to see some medical stuff or some experiences within what they're thinking about doing.

Lindenwood University Assistant Head Coach Jordan Mellott joins Coach Eagan while the players are away with their families for a few days.

With Coach Mellott, we chat about his career journey to college coaching, his young family, and his move from Drury University to Lindenwood.

Coach Eagan shares her thoughts on player minutes, the OVC tourney, and balancing fun and work in women's college basketball.

In a format change, Coach asks Gary about the biggest difference he saw at UConn v. Marquette women's game he saw in late January.  His response might surprise you.

This week we talk about the a big, winning run at UT Martin, Freshman Stevie Lockhart will join us,  I'll ask Coach Eagan about the state of women's college basketball in the winter of 2024.   We'll talk about a career preparation event for all LU women's athletes next week.

This week we talk about the SEMO and Tennessee State games. Junior Mary McGrath will join us.  I'll ask Coach Eagan about finally getting some more home games.  I have a Caitlin Clark question - who doesn't, and I am going to make coach jealous about my trip to watch the Uconn women's basketball team  at Marquette University later this month.

Coach Eagan talks about the crowd and the game against USI, Gracey Kelsey's growth as a player, and balancing academics, travel, and basketball.  Plus, guard Makayla Wallace joins us to talk about her career plans - and pickleball.

In the final 2023 podcast, Coach Eagan talks about coming back from the holidays, discusses the early success of Elle Brueggemann, and offers her pick on the NCAA FBS football championship.  Plus we discuss the USI v. Lindenwood game set for New Year's Eve.

This week we talk about Monday's Education Day game. I'll ask how many high school basketball games Coach Eagan will watch, and we'll talk about a trip and Big 10 game against University of Minnesota next week.