USA Basketball Names Cheryl Reeve’s Assistants As Americans Chase 8th Straight Olympic Gold – News18

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.: U.S. coach Cheryl Reeve could have Mike Thibault, Duke coach Kara Lawson and Texas A&M coach Joni Taylor as her assistants on the Paris Olympics.

USA Basketball introduced Reeve’s teaching workers for the ladies’s nationwide workforce Tuesday. It retains collectively the workers that clinched an automated berth for the 2024 Olympics by successful the World Cup.

“Each has different strengths they bring to the table, and I’m looking forward to working with them for the run in Paris,” stated Reeve, who’s coach and normal supervisor of the Minnesota Lynx.

The Americans will probably be attempting to win an eighth straight and eleventh Olympic gold total courting again to 1996 when the Games begin on July 26.

Thibault has coached with USA Basketball since 1993. He was an assistant coach when the U.S. girls gained gold on the 2008 Beijing Games and 2007 FIBA Americas Championship. Currently Washington’s normal supervisor, he’s the WNBA’s winningest coach, with 379 wins over 20 years.

Lawson, who began enjoying for USA Basketball in 1998 and gained Olympic gold in 2008, coached the U.S. girls to the three×3 Olympic gold in 2021 on the Tokyo Games. She has coached at Duke since 2020 and was an assistant coach with the NBA’s Boston Celtics in the course of the 2019-20 season.

Taylor was head coach of the 2023 U.S. U-19 nationwide workforce that gained the World Cup and is making her sixth look with USA Basketball. She is in her second season at Texas A&M after going 140-75 in seven seasons at Georgia.

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