{"id":77871,"date":"2026-08-25T10:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/25\/ukrainian-star-leaves-lsu-womens-basketball-team-after-signing-of-russian-recruit\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T10:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:56:12","slug":"ukrainian-star-leaves-lsu-womens-basketball-team-after-signing-of-russian-recruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/25\/ukrainian-star-leaves-lsu-womens-basketball-team-after-signing-of-russian-recruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian star leaves LSU women\u2019s basketball team after signing of Russian recruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Center Kate Koval departs after one season with Tigers<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Anna Minaeva of Russia joined team earlier this month<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Kim Mulkey hoped two could be \u2018ambassadors\u2019 for peace<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ukrainian center Kate Koval is leaving LSU less than two weeks after the Tigers brought in a player from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>LSU coach Kim Mulkey said Monday night that Koval was leaving for \u201cpersonal reasons\u201d, adding that the program will \u201crespect her privacy on her decision\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/25\/lsu-kate-koval-kim-mulkey-ukraine-russia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Center Kate Koval departs after one season with Tigers Anna Minaeva of Russia joined team earlier this month Kim Mulkey hoped two could be \u2018ambassadors\u2019 for peace Ukrainian center Kate Koval is leaving LSU less than two weeks after the Tigers brought in a player from Russia. LSU coach Kim Mulkey said Monday night that &#8230; <a title=\"Ukrainian star leaves LSU women\u2019s basketball team after signing of Russian recruit\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/25\/ukrainian-star-leaves-lsu-womens-basketball-team-after-signing-of-russian-recruit\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ukrainian star leaves LSU women\u2019s basketball team after signing of Russian recruit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}