{"id":262525,"date":"2025-10-31T08:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/262525\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T08:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:49:10","slug":"recently-fired-wnba-coach-among-4-new-unrivaled-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/262525\/","title":{"rendered":"Recently-fired WNBA coach among 4 new Unrivaled coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/womens-sports\/1086967\/sonia-raman-wnba-head-coach-seattle-storm-new-york-liberty\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Storm<\/a> head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/womens-sports\/1085589\/wnba-head-coach-tempo-liberty-storm-wings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noelle Quinn<\/a> learned she was fired after after almost a decade with the organization. The Storm finished with a second-consecutive first-round exit, and the WNBA\u2019s 7th-best record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Still, it didn\u2019t take long for Quinn, a 12-year WNBA veteran and longtime Storm coach, to find a new head coach position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/unrivaled-womens-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unrivaled<\/a> \u2014 the 3-on-3 professional women\u2019s basketball co-founded by WNBA stars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart \u2014 announced that Quinn will be one of 8 head coaches in the league\u2019s second season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Quinn joins Unrivaled after eight season\u2019s on Seattle\u2019s coaching staff, including five years as head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In addition to Quinn, the league has three new head coach additions: Chicago Sky assistant Rena Wakama, New York Liberty assistant Zach O\u2019Brien, and Connecticut Sun assistant Roneeka Hodges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In a press release, Unrivaled general manager Clare Duwelius praised the new coaching staff additions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to add such exceptional talent to our head coaching roster in our second<br \/>season, elevating the strong foundation established by our inaugural coaching staffs<br \/>across Unrivaled,\u201d Duwelius said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Alongside them, coaches from last season are returning for a second season at Unrivaled: Liberty Director of Player Development Andrew Wade, NBA skills coach DJ Sackmann, Dallas Wings assistant Nola Henry, and former Sky head coach Teresa Weatherspoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Two coaches \u2014 Adam Harrington and Phil Handy \u2014 have departed Unrivaled after one season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Below is a full list of head coaches:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Unrivaled is set to begin in January, and games will once again be broadcast on TNT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, Seattle Storm head coach Noelle Quinn learned she was fired after after almost a decade with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-262525","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\/262525","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=262525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}