Jeff Walz – UofL News Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:43:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 UofL Women’s Basketball will represent the U.S. in the World University Games /post/uofltoday/uofl-womens-basketball-will-represent-the-u-s-in-the-world-university-games/ Mon, 09 Nov 2020 19:38:28 +0000 http://www.uoflnews.com/?p=51839 University of Louisville women’s basketball has been selected to represent the United States at the 2021 World University Games, which will be played August 18-29 in Chengdu, China.
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“We are extremely excited that our team will get an opportunity to represent the United States in the World University Games,” Louisville head coach Jeff WalzÌýsaid. “One of the joys of my coaching career has been representing the United States, and I am thrilled that our entire team will get to experience that next summer. This will be a tremendous opportunity for everyone involved with our program, and we can’t wait to play on an international stage against the world’s best teams.”
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The World University Games are held every two years, and Louisville will become the fourth collegiate program to play for the United States, joining UNC Charlotte (2009), Maryland (2017) and Mississippi State (2019). Beside those four occurrences, the United States has been represented by the national team in the World University Games.
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Louisville was chosen to represent the United States in the 2021 World University Games by the United States International University Sports Federation (US-IUSF).
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“We are thrilled to have Louisville and Coach Walz represent the United States at the 2021 World University Games,” said Nels Hawkinson, the USA Team Deputy Head of Delegation.
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Walz was named 2019 USA Basketball National Coach of the Year after leading the USA U19 team to a perfect 7-0 record and a gold medal at the 2019 FIBA U19 World Cup in Bangkok, Thailand.
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This will mark his seventh coaching assignment overall representing the USA. Prior to the 2019 USA U19 team, he led the 2018 USA U18 team to a gold medal in Mexico City and the 2017 USA U23 team to a 3-0 record and a tournament title at the Four Nations U24 Tournament in Tokyo. He also helped USA Basketball to gold medals as an assistant coach for the 2014 USA U18 and 2015 USA U19 national teams and served as a court coach at the 2017 USA National Team training camp.

Olivia Cochran, Dana Evans, Mykasa Robinson and Hailey Van LithÌýhave previously competed for Team USA.
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Evans was a member of the 2016 USA U18 National Team that captured the gold medal with a 5-0 record at the FIBA Americas U18 Championship. She then took part in trials for the 2017 USA U19 World Cup team and trials for the 2019 U.S. Pan American Games.
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Cochran and Van Lith competed together in leading the USA to a gold medal at the 2019 FIBA 3×3 U18 World Cup in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Van Lith was also a member of Walz’s 2019 USA U19 World Cup Team that captured the gold medal with a 74-70 overtime victory over Australia. She started all seven games and averaged 9.1 points and 2.3 assists.
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Robinson represented Louisville at the 2019 USA Basketball Women’s 3×3 National Championship in Las Vegas.
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Louisville will compete in the 31stÌýFISU Summer World University Games, which will be the first world-class sports event played in western China. Chengdu is the capital of the Sichuan Province and one of the three most populous cities in western China, with a population of more than nine million.
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The United States began competing at the World University Games in 1965. Women’s Basketball is one of 18 sports in which America will compete against more than 10,000 athletes from around the globe.
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Packages for fans to travel with the team to the 31stÌýWorld University Games will be announced at a later date.Ìý

]]> Coach Satterfield, Coach Walz recognized with Coach of the Year honors /post/uofltoday/coach-satterfield-coach-walz-recognized-with-coach-of-the-year-honors/ Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:15:57 +0000 http://www.uoflnews.com/?p=49104 After leading the USA Basketball team to a perfect 7-0 record and a gold medal at the 2019 FIBA U19 World Cup in Bangkok, Thailand, UofL Women’s Basketball Coach Jeff Walz has been named a recipientÌýof the 2019 USA Basketball National Coach of the Year award.

He shares the award with Kansas State’s Bruce Weber,Ìýwho also led his team to a 7-0 record and a gold medal.

“It definitely an honor,” . “And also, it shows what type of staff we had. I was very fortunate to be able to work with Cori (Close) and Natasha (Adair) the past two years. And then the players, obviously you don’t get such an award without having an outstanding staff and a good team.”

“Jeff Walz and Bruce Weber guided our 2019 USA men’s and women’s U19 national teams back atop the gold medal podium,” saidÌýJim Tooley, USA Basketball chief executive officer. “USA Basketball is grateful for their leadership and commitment, and we are proud to recognize them for their tremendous efforts.”

As head coach at the University of Louisville, Walz led his team in 2018-19 to a 32-4 record and the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight.

Additionally, UofL Head Football Coach Scott SatterfieldÌýhas been selected the 2019 Atlantic Coast Conference Football Coach of the Year.
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Satterfield, who becomes the first Louisville football coach to earn ACC Coach of the Year honors, led the way in balloting among a select panel of 46 media members and the league’s 14 head coaches. HeÌýreceived 23 votes, followed by Virginia’s Bronco Mendenhall with 17 and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney with 15.

“I’m certainly thankful and honored to be recognized as the coach of the year in the ACC, especially in the conference I grew up watching as a kid,” . “I’m proud of my coaching staff who worked so hard to change the culture of this program and put our players in a position to succeed. “
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“Lastly, I’m grateful to be able to coach a great group of players who worked so hard since we arrived here last year, and bought into what we are trying to do here at the University of Louisville.Ìý I’m so excited to lead this program into the postseason in a few weeks.”

After an impressive six-year run as the head coach at Appalachian State, which included three-straight Sun Belt Conference championships, Satterfield took over a UofL program that went 2-10 overall and 0-8 in the ACC in 2018.

Satterfield guided the Cardinals to one of the more impressive turnarounds in league history, becoming only the second school in the ACC to go 0-8 in league play the previous year to improve to 5-3 the following year. The five-game improvement also was the best among Power 5 programs this season.

Satterfield is one of six coaches in NCAA history to win coach of the year honors at one school the previous year and follow it up with a second consecutive award at a different school the following year. Jim McElwain of Florida was the last coach to do it in 2014 and 2015.

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