{"id":249621,"date":"2025-10-24T23:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T23:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/249621\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T23:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T23:38:07","slug":"seattle-storm-to-hire-libertys-sonia-raman-as-head-coach-espn-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/249621\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Storm to hire Liberty’s Sonia Raman as head coach, ESPN reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SEATTLE \u2014 The Seattle Storm have found their new head coach ahead of the 2026 season, according to ESPN<\/a>. <\/p>\n

New York Liberty assistant Sonia Raman has reportedly agreed to a multiyear deal to become the Storm’s new head coach, ESPN reported Friday<\/a>. KOMO News has reached out to the Storm directly to confirm further details. <\/p>\n

Raman spent 2020-24 as an assistant with the Memphis Grizzlies and last season with the Liberty. <\/p>\n

According to ESPN, “Raman makes WNBA history as the first person of Indian descent to be head coach after being the first Indian American woman to be an NBA assistant.”<\/p>\n

The Storm fired head coach Noelle Quinn in late September,<\/a> three days after losing to the eventual champion Las Vegas Aces in the opening round of the WNBA playoffs. <\/p>\n

Quinn’s association with the Storm began as a player in 2013, continuing until 2018, during which she was part of the 2018 WNBA championship team. After retiring as a player, she transitioned to an assistant coach role in 2019, advanced to associate head coach in 2020, and was named head coach in 2021.<\/p>\n

Under her leadership, the Storm achieved four postseason appearances, and she holds the record for the second-most wins in the franchise’s history.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 The Seattle Storm have found their new head coach ahead of the 2026 season, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[402,16898,136166,436,81726,4676,136165,99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-249621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-head-coach","10":"tag-indian-american","11":"tag-new-york-liberty","12":"tag-noelle-quinn","13":"tag-seattle-storm","14":"tag-sonia-raman","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}