{"id":412529,"date":"2026-01-16T06:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412529\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T06:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:17:12","slug":"tempo-name-ciara-carl-brian-lankton-assistant-coaches-for-inaugural-wnba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412529\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempo name Ciara Carl, Brian Lankton assistant coaches for inaugural WNBA season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 Ciara Carl and Brian Lankton have been hired by the Toronto Tempo as assistant coaches, the WNBA team announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Carl and Lankton each bring over a decade of experience across the NBA, G-League, WNBA, and NCAA, and will report to Tempo head coach Sandy Brondello.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The team says the assistants will be involved in all aspects of team preparation and performance, including player development, advanced scouting and on-court strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Carl joins the Tempo from the Phoenix Mercury, where she served as an assistant coach and head video co-ordinator since 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Lankton most recently served as the head video co-ordinator and player development coach for the New York Liberty from 2023-2025, including during the team\u2019s 2024 WNBA championship season.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto will play its inaugural WNBA season this summer.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Ciara Carl and Brian Lankton have been hired by the Toronto Tempo as assistant coaches, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[100907,172483,172481,49,48,3457,3461,136766,82,944,45963,630],"class_list":["post-412529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-assistant-coach","tag-assistant-coaches","tag-brian-lankton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-player-development","tag-sports","tag-the-canadian-press","tag-toronto-tempo","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412529","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=412529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}