Kara Lawson has been named the subsequent head coach of the USA ladies’s basketball workforce. Lawson was an assistant coach on the 2024 workforce and gained gold as a participant within the 2008 Olympics. Lawson is at present additionally the pinnacle coach of Duke.
“To win a gold medal as a participant was wonderful, and one of many earliest objectives that I set out once I was younger,” Lawson advised ESPN. “I feel that’s what drives you as a result of you understand how nice that feels and also you need the gamers you coach to expertise that. You get to have this everlasting reminiscence in your sport and so the objective is to attempt to assist them create that for themselves on the totally different world occasions.”
Lawson replaces Cheryl Reeve as head coach.
Lawson was chosen for this place by Sue Chook, the Olympic gold medalist and Corridor of Famer who was named the primary managing director of the USA Basketball ladies’s nationwide workforce in Could.
