{"id":249760,"date":"2025-10-25T01:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T01:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/249760\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T01:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T01:12:11","slug":"sonia-raman-makes-history-as-first-indian-head-coach-in-wnba-with-seattle-storm-ap-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/249760\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonia Raman makes history as first Indian head coach in WNBA with Seattle Storm, AP Source says"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York assistant Sonia Raman has agreed to a deal to become the head coach of the Seattle Storm<\/a>, a person familiar with the hire told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

The person spoke on condition of anonymity on Friday because no official announcement has been made.<\/p>\n

Raman was an assistant with the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies for four years before coming to the New York Liberty<\/a> this past season. She’ll make history as the first person of Indian descent to be a head coach in the WNBA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Seattle fired coach Noelle Quinn last month after the Storm were eliminated by the Las Vegas Aces<\/a> in the first round of the playoffs. <\/p>\n

ESPN was the first to report the hire.<\/p>\n

With this hire, New York is the only team still without a head coach. The Liberty didn’t renew Sandy Brondello’s contract after Ne w York lost in the opening round to Phoenix. Raman was up for the New York job as well.<\/p>\n

The Storm could look very different next year with All-Stars Nneka Ogwumike<\/a>, Skylar Diggins<\/a>, Gabby Williams<\/a> and Brittney Sykes<\/a> set to be unrestricted free agents. Mostveteran players in the WNBA will be with a new collective bargaining agreement expected to raise salaries when it finally gets done. <\/p>\n

Still, Raman will have sensational young forward Dominique Malonga<\/a>, who was the No. 2 pick the draft last season.<\/p>\n

Raman’s coaching career started at MIT where she was a head coach from 2008-20. She led the school to the Division III NCAA Tournament twice and remains the winningest coach in program history. <\/p>\n

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AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York assistant Sonia Raman has agreed to a deal to become the head coach of the Seattle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-249760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249760","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=249760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}