{"id":443332,"date":"2026-09-21T21:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T21:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443332\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T21:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T21:18:09","slug":"connecticut-sun-president-jennifer-rizzotti-headed-to-houston-with-team-nbc-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443332\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Sun President Jennifer Rizzotti headed to Houston with team \u2013 NBC Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connecticut Sun President Jennifer Rizzotti announced on Monday that she is heading to Houston with the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rizzotti told NBC Connecticut in an interview Monday afternoon that she plans to move with the team and will be President of Basketball Operations for the team in Houston.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rizzotti was named President of the Connecticut Sun in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Rizzotti is a Connecticut native from New Fairfield. She went on to play for UConn, where she served as the starting point guard in 1995, leading the Huskies to their first national championship with an undefeated 35-0 record.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rizzotti played in the WNBA and won two national titles with the Houston Comets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rizzotti also spent 17 seasons as the head coach of the University of Hartford&#8217;s women&#8217;s basketball team. She also coached at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.,\u00a0from 2016 to 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Connecticut Sun&#8217;s last home game at Mohegan Sun Arena is Thursday, Sept. 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connecticut Sun President Jennifer Rizzotti announced on Monday that she is heading to Houston with the team.\u00a0 Rizzotti&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32891,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-443332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-connecticut-sun","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}