winner on the LPGA Tour, including two major championship

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Hall of Famer Lynette Woodard wanted a new start in college coaching. Winthrop, with her old friend Kevin Cook, seemed like a perfect place.Woodard took her first coaching position since she was interim coach for alma mater Kansas in 2003-04. She spent four seasons as a Jayhawks assistant along since Cook, now the Eagles fifth-year head coach.I am very excited to be here at Winthrop, Woodard said. Its a new beginning and it gives me the opportunity to get reacquainted with coach Cook.And to get familiar with the game Woodard once dominated. Woodard played at Kansas from 1977-81 and helped USA Basketball forge the womens powerhouse thats expected to be on display once more at the Rio Olympics this month.Woodard, a two-time Olympian, won gold at the Los Angeles Games in 1984. The next year, she became the first woman to play for the Harlem Globetrotters.Woodard played professionally overseas (there were no U.S. womens leagues) before coming back to the United States to work in business and become athletic director for the Kansas City, Kansas, school system. In 1997, she came out of retirement to play two seasons in the WNBA.Woodard joined college coaching at her alma mater in 1999 and was named interim head coach in 2003-04.She most recently worked at Wichita State, administering two federally funded education programs helping underprivileged students.Cook was overjoyed that Woodard, 56, signed on to help the Eagles.If there were a Mt. Rushmore of womens basketball players, Lynette would be on it, Cook said.Woodard was named to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002, the Globetrotters Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Womens Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005.For Woodard, though, the chance to work developing young players will be her focus.Im looking forward to working with our young team, helping them to develop into the players we want to see them become, and become winners and champions here at Winthrop and beyond, she said. I can say that I am ready to give 100 percent and pour into these young people and help them be the best they can be.Winthrop has had four winning seasons in Cooks five years, including winning the Big South Conference Tournament and making the NCAA Tournament in 2013-14. The Eagles, however, went 4-26 last season. Nike Air Max Ireland . 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She is 1 stroke behind South Koreas Inbee Park through 36 holes.I dont know if something seemed to click and I got some more confidence as the day went on, said Lewis, who is a shot ahead of Great Britains Charley Hull and Canadas Brooke Henderson. I think the putts going in definitely helped. Anytime you see some putts go in, it frees up the swing a little bit more. But I dont know ... I didnt expect this today at all.Lewis, who is one of three Americans in the Olympic field, along with Lexi Thompson and Gerina Piller, took a carefree attitude coming into the Olympics. Lewis knew she had played well in her past four starts -- all top-10s. She figured that she wasnt going to sweat it after getting married on Aug. 6.After a brief honeymoon in Charleston, South Carolina, Lewis got back to work, but still thought she would enjoy the experience of being here more than worry about grinding at golf.I was excited from the get-go with the announcement of the Olympics, Lewis said. There are probably a lot of reasons why we shouldnt have come and shouldnt have done this, whether it was Zika or other issues.I just did my homework, and nobody gave me a good reason why I shouldnt come. I mean, thered have to be something seriously wrong with me to not come play in the Olympics. This has been so cool. Just a different feel about it. Feeels like a different tournament.ddddddddddddIm truthfully more excited about the diving I get to go watch this afternoon than the round I played. Im looking forward to doing all this other stuff versus the golf, and thats what this week is about for us.So far, it is paying off for Lewis, 31, who made 11 birdies, a double-bogey and a bogey on Thursday. She birdied the last four holes to take the clubhouse lead before Park birdied the last two holes to post a two-day total of 10 under.An 11-time winner on the LPGA Tour, including two major championships, Lewis has gone 18 months without a victory.But during that span she has had 11 runner-up finishes and 27 top-10s, including those four events coming into this week.The first half of the year wasnt very good, she said. Wasnt in contention very much. The swing, the putting, nothing was where I wanted it to be. Actually, on my way to Portland (for a tournament in late June), I pulled out DVDs of a couple of my old wins, and just was trying to see what is different. Something has to be different here. Saw one thing in the setup of my putting, and that was kind of the big thing was the setup of my putting. Got my hands a little bit further away from me.But also saw that I hit a lot of bad shots and won golf tournaments. I dont know what it was, but just watching those videos really helped me, helped me start playing better. And really, from Portland on, Ive played some really good golf. The last four weeks, I think Ive had four top-10s. So the golf is going in the right direction, and thats when I win -- its usually after some top-10s. And so I know I just need to keep grinding out and keep trying to play some good golf.Now shes in a great spot, with the chance at a medal, perhaps even gold, in her sights. And keeping expectations at a minimum might not be so easy. ' ' '