{"id":261500,"date":"2025-11-04T17:23:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261500\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T17:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:23:17","slug":"toronto-tempo-name-sandy-brondello-as-first-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261500\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Tempo name Sandy Brondello as first head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sandy Brondello in June, when she was head coach of the New York Liberty. Brondello will lead the Toronto Tempo next season.Lindsey Wasson\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Sandy Brondello has been named the first head coach of the WNBA\u2019s Toronto Tempo, the team announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Australian led the New York Liberty to the 2024 WNBA championship before her contract was not renewed following this past season when the team lost in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Brondello went 107-53 in four seasons with New York and earned the most wins in franchise history.<\/p>\n

Toronto Tempo\u2019s Monica Wright Rogers is taking on the basketball world with a fresh set of nails<\/a><\/p>\n

She also guided the Phoenix Mercury to a WNBA title in 2014 during an eight-year tenure.<\/p>\n

The 56-year-old takes over an expansion Tempo team set to debut in 2026.<\/p>\n

Toronto will be the WNBA\u2019s first franchise outside the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Sandy Brondello in June, when she was head coach of the New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,82,865,61,900,892,886,630,883,913],"class_list":["post-261500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-wnba","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261500","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=261500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}