Amanda Levens has Wolf Pack women's basketball on the rise

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(Photo: John Byrne/Nevada athletics)In the offseason, Halie Bergman gained a reputation for being one of Nevada’s first players to hit the trash can.

She wasn’t throwing anything away. Instead, she was throwing up. First-year coach Amanda Levens promised her team that no opponent the Wolf Pack faced would be in better shape than they would. So, in the offseason, Levens didn’t add new players or overhaul the roster. She put her team through boot camp.

There were field runs inside Mackay Stadium. There was the timed 1½-mile run. There was the drill that…