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For four months Lindsay Whalen was Minnesota coach and WNBA player

Lindsay Whalen thought maybe one day she’d be the head women’s basketball coach at Minnesota.

That’s her alma mater, where Whalen is the all-time leading scorer, and where she led the Gophers to their only appearance in the NCAA Final Four as a senior in 2004.

Whalen thought she may coach the Gophers someday. She just didn’t think it would happen while she was still holding down another pretty big job as the point guard for the Minnesota Lynx in the WNBA.

But that’s what happened when Whalen was hired as the Gophers' coach on April 12, 2018.