by admin | Apr 8, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Who are the longest-tenured head coaches in women’s college basketball history? We recently examined the men’s NCAA head coaches with the most job security. Next, let’s evaluate the women’s NCAA head coaches who remained with one school for...
by admin | Dec 5, 2023 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Veteran WNBA guard Kristi Toliver has been named associate head coach of the Phoenix Mercury, the organization announced Friday. She joins the staff of new head coach Nate Tibbetts, who was hired in October after a long career as an NBA assistant coach. Read...
by admin | Jun 26, 2023 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The Phoenix Mercury have parted ways with head coach Vanessa Nygaard and promoted Nikki Blue to interim head coach for the remainder of the season, the team announced on Sunday. Nygaard, who was just hired in 2022, is the first coach in the league to be fired this...
by admin | Nov 22, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
With Monday’s official announcement of Stephanie White as new coach of the Connecticut Sun, every WNBA coaching position is now filled for the 2023 season. White returns to the WNBA, where she previously was head coach of the Indiana Fever in 2015 and 2016....
by admin | Oct 31, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Every year, it seems more women are landing high-profile coaching jobs. There’s Becky Hammon, the former WNBA star who left the San Antonio Spurs to lead the Las Vegas Aces to their first WNBA titlein her inaugural season as a head coach. There’s Rachel Balkovec, who...
by admin | Sep 28, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The San Antonio Spurs are reportedly hiring seven-time WNBA All-Star Candice Dupree as an assistant under coach Gregg Popovich. Shams Charania of The Athletic and Stadium reported the hiring of Dupree, who began her journey earlier this year as part of the NBA...
by admin | May 25, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Kris Ward is measured when speaking to the media. Last week, however, he hit a tipping point. The Washington Spirit head coach spent much of his media availability voicing frustrations about the state of refereeing in the National Women’s Soccer League, and the...
by admin | May 3, 2022 | #MeToo, SEW
The U.S. Center for SafeSport suspended 1988 U.S. Olympic pairs bronze medalist and renowned figure skating coach Peter Oppegard Monday after an investigation of allegations of physical abuse, according to emails obtained by USA TODAY Sports and two people questioned...
by admin | May 2, 2022 | #MeToo, SEW
MacKenzie Loesch says she still has a clear memory of the encounter that broke her. It was 10 years ago, and Loesch was 12 — a rising taekwondo star from a small town in Missouri. Her training facility was two hours away, and her coach, Thomas Hardin, would often...
by admin | Jan 31, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
After the 2021 season, Breanna Stewart predicted the WNBA’s free-agency -period would be the most thrilling since the league and the players’ union agreed to a new collective-bargaining agreement in 2020. Stewart didn’t factor in the bombshell coaching hires that...
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