{"id":312511,"date":"2025-11-25T09:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/312511\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:50:08","slug":"noelle-quinn-highlights-racial-disparities-in-wnba-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/312511\/","title":{"rendered":"Noelle Quinn Highlights Racial Disparities in WNBA Coaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/seattle-storm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Storm<\/a> head coach, Noelle Quinn, called out the WNBA over what she said were racial disparities regarding coaches in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Quinn was fired by the Storm immediately after the 2025 season, following the team\u2019s second straight first-round playoffs elimination.<\/p>\n<p>But as the inaugural coach of the new Breeze BC team in the Unrivaled League, Quinn made these accusations during her media session on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletic\u2019s Ben Pickman had asked her about the contrast between Unrivaled having five Black women coaches and the WNBA having none.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ex-Seattle-Storm-Coach-Slaps-Shocking-Accusations-At-WNBA-Of-Shutting-Out-Black-Coaches-26979831.jpg\" alt=\"Noelle Quinn \" class=\"wp-image-1358438\"  \/>Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>In her response, Noelle Quinn said that the absence of black coaches in the W appears to be deliberate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not by accident; I believe it\u2019s intentional,\u201d she said (per Meghan L. Hall). \u201cRepresentation is possible when leadership chooses to make it possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if she\u2019ll return to coaching a team in the WNBA, she simply replied: \u201cWe\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Noelle Quinn on 5 black women head coaches in Unrivaled vs. none in the WNBA:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not by accident. I believe it&#8217;s intentional \u2026 Representation is possible when leadership chooses to make it possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Quinn on if she&#8217;ll coach again in the W: &#8220;We&#8217;ll see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Q: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benpickman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@benpickman<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Meghan L. Hall (@ItsMeghanLHall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ItsMeghanLHall\/status\/1991592402281460079?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The allegations by Quinn at the league comes <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/wnba\/aja-wilson-wnba-cba-negotiations-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">amid the ongoing CBA negotiations<\/a> that has so far affected the relationship between the players and the league\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Sonia Raman had succeeded Noelle Quinn as the Seattle Storm\u2019s head coach. Raman is an attorney who prior to coaching, worked at Fidelity Investments and the U.S Department of Labor.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img alt=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764064208_801_802c3003547685b578fd7f4e8a81a7dbe8d1cf2e4c476dec63817c479fdb718f\"  class=\"avatar avatar-70 photo\" height=\"70\" width=\"70\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tSince  his  first  foray  into  online  journalism  in  2019,  Peter  Okereke  has  written  widely  on  Entertainment,  Politics  and  Pop  &#8230; More about <a class=\"more-bio\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/author\/peter-okereke\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Okereke<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Seattle Storm head coach, Noelle Quinn, called out the WNBA over what she said were racial disparities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[4676,99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-312511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-seattle-storm","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312511","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=312511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}