Lindsey Harding
Lindsey Harding was born on June 12, 1984, in Mobile, Alabama, and grew up in Houston, Texas, a city that provided the formative backdrop for her development as an athlete. A citizen of both the United States and Belarus, Harding built a career that extended across national boundaries, reflecting the international dimensions her professional life would come to encompass.
Harding attended Cy-Fair High School in the Houston area, where her athletic abilities took shape before she advanced to the collegiate level. During her college career, she received the Nancy Lieberman Award and the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award, two honors that marked her as a notably decorated player during her years of collegiate competition.
Her professional playing career in women's basketball earned her a place on the WNBA All-Rookie Team, an acknowledgment of her performance during the early stage of her time in the league. The combination of her collegiate accolades and her professional recognition traced a consistent arc of achievement across the different stages of her career as an active player.
Following her time as a player, Harding transitioned into the role of basketball coach, a second career that kept her connected to the sport in a different professional capacity. Her dual citizenship in the United States and Belarus points to the international scope her life in basketball has encompassed. As a coach, she continues to work within the game that defined much of her earlier professional life.
Quotes by Lindsey Harding
It's kind of like a revenge thing. Yeah, we beat them twice in a row, but they beat us last. We want to get that back. It worked out perfectly with this being the last game of the year. I think it will be a great game.
You can't really go by that going into this game, because that was so early in the season. I know we've changed as a team, and I know they have as well.
I didn't think we'd shut her out in the first half; she's a great player. We wanted to make her work really hard so she'd wear down.
I don't think I realized how big the Final Four was. I just kind of assumed that I would get here every year because that's just all I knew. I was really tense and really nervous in the game because I didn't feel like I had full control of things. I was just a freshman, and I didn't know what I was doing in a way.
After that, I'll know everything. To be completely honest with you, I know about Tennessee because they talk about them all the time, I know about UNC because we play them all the time. Other than that -- we just played Wake Forest and I knew they liked to shoot a lot, but other than that, not much.
They went on a run, but we had to calm down and figure out what would work for us. We started going back inside.
I wanted to win it for Coach G. I get tired of people saying she can't win the big one and this and that. When it came down to the final, it was us as players. We were the ones who had to execute. She had us well prepared.
That's our strength. We didn't have many fast-break points that I can remember in the first half. We had to take advantage of our transition game. That's where we score a lot. Coach told us at halftime we have so much depth and we have to play hard enough to use it.
It's really disappointing to not make it to the finals and not have a chance to win it. We all felt that this was our tournament.
I tried not to let her touch the ball. I was trying to follow her and deny her the ball. The only thing that was open was the back door but they didn't look for that.