Sonia Raman has agreed to become the next head coach of the Seattle Storm, according to ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n
An assistant coach with the New York Liberty during the 2025 season, Raman will be the first WNBA head coach of Indian descent. She also will be the league\u2019s only current head coach who is a woman of color.<\/p>\n
Before joining the Liberty bench, Raman spent four seasons as an assistant with the NBA\u2019s Memphis Grizzlies, working in scouting, player development and analytics. Prior to that, the former walk-on guard at Tufts University was the head coach at MIT from 2008 to 2020, after first serving as an assistant at Wellesley from 2002 to 2008. Raman also earned her law degree from Boston College before beginning her coaching career, working for Fidelity Investments and the US Department of Labor.<\/p>\n
Raman\u2019s diverse experiences, both in basketball and beyond, suggest she is suited to fulfill the characteristics outlined by Storm general manager Talisa Rhea after the dismissal of former head coach Noelle Quinn. Rhea asserted<\/a>:<\/p>\n I think we\u2019re looking for a leader, someone who can manage a group and really establish a new identity. There\u2019s a lot of uncertainty, and we\u2019re entering a new chapter, just kind of leaguewide, so excited for someone to really be able to put their mark on a team and build confidence, build team chemistry and build an identity on the court that will ultimately lead us to trying to compete for years to come.<\/p>\n Implementing systems that unlock the full extent of Dominique Malonga\u2019s talent, presumably, will be Raman primary on-court priority. Off the court, she\u2019ll be charged with rebuilding a team culture that has been riven by rumored discord in recent seasons.<\/p>\n Raman\u2019s hiring follows those of Jose Fernandez<\/a> by the Dallas Wings, Sandy Brondello<\/a> by the Toronto Tempo and Alex Sarama<\/a> by the Portland Fire, leaving the New York Liberty as the only WNBA team without a head coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sonia Raman has agreed to become the next head coach of the Seattle Storm, according to ESPN\u2019s Shams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-240817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}