After 23 years of unparalleled success at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU), head coach Karl Smesko is stepping down to ...

Smesko made the decision to leave the Eagles two games into the 2024-25 season for a head coaching opportunity with the ...

Lyles has been at FGCU in multiple capacities since 2008, serving as a star player and then as an assistant coach for the last decade-plus.

FGCU will turn to long-time associate head coach Chelsea Lyles who will now be just the second head coach in program history. Lyles, one of Smesko's former players, graduated in 2010 and has been with ...

The Atlanta Dream managed to do what many other teams have tried over the years. They lured Karl Smesko away from Florida ...

Tanisha Wright served three years as the head coach of the Atlanta Dream but the team had an overall record of 48-68 with her in charge. It was after the Dream were eliminated from the first round of ...

His top assistant, former FCGU player Chelsea Lyles, was named the next coach of the Eagles shortly after Smesko's move to ...

Karl Smesko, who built the Eagles into a mid-major powerhouse, is leaving the Eagles after 23 seasons to become the head ...

Karl Smesko built Florida Gulf Coast into one of the country's most consistent mid-major women's basketball teams. Is his ...

The Atlanta Dream hired Florida Gulf Coast University women's basketball coach Karl Smesko as its next head coach, the WNBA ...

The Atlanta Dream are the latest WNBA team to make a new coaching hire this offseason, and in a surprise twist they've lured ...