{"id":409903,"date":"2026-01-16T01:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/409903\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:40:09","slug":"tempo-name-carl-lankton-assistant-coaches-for-inaugural-wnba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/409903\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempo name Carl, Lankton assistant coaches for inaugural WNBA season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ciara Carl and Brian Lankton have been hired by the Toronto Tempo as assistant coaches, the WNBA team announced Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Carl and Lankton each bring over a decade of experience across the NBA, G-League, WNBA, and NCAA, and will report to Tempo head coach Sandy Brondello.<\/p>\n<p>The team says the assistants will be involved in all aspects of team preparation and performance, including player development, advanced scouting and on-court strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Carl joins the Tempo from the Phoenix Mercury, where she served as an assistant coach and head video co-ordinator since 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lankton most recently served as the head video co-ordinator and player development coach for the New York Liberty from 2023-2025, including during the team\u2019s 2024 WNBA championship season.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto will play its inaugural WNBA season this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ciara Carl and Brian Lankton have been hired by the Toronto Tempo as assistant coaches, the WNBA team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-409903","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\/409903","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=409903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}