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Go Cheryl Go! You can do it, if anybody can!

We are, of course, talking about successful Minnesota Lynx women’s professional basketball coach Cheryl Reeve. She deserves an opportunity to try coaching a men’s professional basketball team. First of all, CONGRATULATONS for taking another Lynx team to the championship round and then having it stolen by an official’s call.

Naming Reeve as an NBA (National Basketball Association) coach would be a team’s cane to ride the hype with Cheryl and with her team.

It would even be wiser for Lynx owner Glen Taylor to make the move in his home state of Minnesota.

Reeve is coach of the Lynx and president of basketball operations for the Lynx. She recently was named sports executive of the year, and she earned Coach of the Year honors.

She has coached the Lynx since its inception.

It was a controversial call late in the WNBA championship game that caused Coach Reeve to lose her cool and blister the refs with some sharp criticism. Reeve is an example of a movement we are experiencing where some talented young women sports stars are stealing the headlines.

The headlines should grow even larger as success is being enjoyed by the female combatants.

Cheryl Reeve (Turnersville, N.J./Washington Township) was the engine that drove La Salle women's basketball to astonishing heights during the 1980s.

Reeve was a four-year starter in the back court for the Explorers, who won an incredible 89 games during her career that spanned from 1984-88. An All-MAAC Freshman Team selection in her first year at La Salle, Reeve broke the single season assists record as a sophomore as the program earned its second trip to the NCAA Tournament.

Two years later, as a senior, the New Jersey native captained the Explorers to a 25-5 record, a national ranking, and another berth into the NCAA Tournament while earning First Team All-MAAC and Second Team All-Big 5 accolades along the way.

A Rhodes Scholar nominee, Reeve has continued to build her impressive basketball resume in the coaching ranks. Reeve coached the USA women’s team to a gold medal in 2024.

Young girls are invading sports arenas where they have never entered before, like wrestling.

Hall of Fame sportswriter Sid Hartman would turn over in his grave if he heard mention of a woman coaching a professional sports team.

Cheryl Reeve, make your abilities and your many records known and make history as the first female to coach a professional men’s sports team.

It could happen! Women’s basketball has been revolutionized by the likes of Cheryl Reeve and Caitlin Clark.