A Ukrainian women’s basketball star at LSU has called it quits after the Lady Tigers signed a Russian teenage player.
The departure of Kate Koval, a native of Kyiv, Ukraine, whose father is serving in the Ukrainian military, was announced on Tuesday by head coach Kim Mulkey. The move comes ten days after LSU signed 17-year-old Russian center Anna Minaeva.
“Kate came to see me on Sunday and told me that after much consideration, she will be leaving the program for personal reasons,” Mulkey said in a statement. “We will respect her privacy on her decision, but we had a long talk about it, and it was a hard decision for her.”
While the statement…
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