Kara Lawson The Next Head Coach Of The Duke Women's Basketball Program?
Kara Lawson has many titles to her name!
What are they?
WNBA Player, Broadcaster, Assistant Coach!
She played 13 seasons in the WNBA where she she averaged 9.8 points (41.4% FG, 39.0% 3-PT), 2.6 rebounds, and 2.5 assists over 377 career games with the Sacramento Monarchs, Connecticut Sun, and Washington Mystics from 2003 to 2015. In addition to her WNBA career, which included a championship with the Monarchs in 2005 and an All-Star appearance in 2007, Lawson was a member of the Team USA roster that captured the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. “according to https://www.nba.com/celtics/roster/coaches/kara-lawson
She was an analyst for Washington as well as working for ESPN as a game and studio analyst for both Men’s and Women’s College Basketball as well as the NBA.
Currently, Kara Lawson is an assistant coach for Brad Stephens who is the head coach of Boston in the NBA.
But could that title be changing?
That is a possibility!
Why?
Because Duke is interviewing Kara Lawson for the head coaching position with their Women’s Basketball Program. “according to an article by ESPN News Services.
If Duke does reach a deal with Kara Lawson to become their next head coach of the Duke Women’s Basketball Program she would be returning to the collegiate level not as a player but as a head coach and she would be the head coach at the college where Jayson Tatum who she currently coaches at the NBA level played collegiately for one season before being drafted by Boston as the third overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft and she would replace Joanne P. McCallie who spent thirteen season as the head coach of the Duke Women’s Basketball Program.
McCallie led the Blue Devils to a 330-107 record in her 13 seasons and was a three-time league coach of the year. Her teams won at least a share of the regular-season title four times and three ACC tournament titles while also making 10 trips to the NCAA tournament, including four consecutive trips to the Elite Eight in 2010-13. “according an article by ESPN News Services.
But that job grew more challenging with the arrival of national powers Notre Dame (2013) and Louisville (2014) to the ACC. Duke has failed to finish in the top three of the league regular-season race in four of the past seven seasons and hasn't won a league title in that span.acording to an article by ESPN News Services.