LSU’s Kim Mulkey Is Publicizing a Health Scare to Promote Cardiovascular Screening

LSU’s Kim Mulkey Is Publicizing a Health Scare to Promote Cardiovascular Screening
LSU head coach Kim Mulkey celebrates after cutting down the net after the NCAA Women's Final Four championship basketball game against Iowa in Dallas on April 2, 2023. Tony Gutierrez/AP Photo
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BATON ROUGE, La.—Kim Mulkey, the coach of defending national champion LSU, is publicizing that she had two stents put in a major artery this summer as she tries to promote screening for life-threatening arterial blockages.

Mulkey, 61, was not having obvious symptoms of a blockage when she asked for imaging to check on a half-decade-old disc procedure in her neck, she said in recent media interviews.