WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Matt Herb
MAGGIE'S FARM Lucas, one of four seniors, will be a team leader for the Lady Lions, who welcome eight newcomers this season.
Changing times
Maggie Lucas is back, but PSU will have a very different look in 2013-14
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W
hen Russ Rose has some
coaching advice to share, you
pay attention. The longtime
women's volleyball coach has
developed one All-America player after
another at Penn State, and he's had to,
because the one inevitable fact of college
athletics is that players always depart.
During the past off-season, the fivetime NCAA title-winner offered his colleague Coquese Washington a bit of advice
about the rebuilding project she was about
to undertake as coach of the freshmanladen Lady Lion basketball team.
"One of the things he told me about
having a new team and a different team
when you graduate some stalwarts and
people who've had a big impact is to keep
the standards high," Washington said.
"Keep the expectations really, really high,
and [players] will meet them. So that's
how we've been coaching them these first
few weeks of practice. We've kept the expectations high. We've been very de-
