{"id":545253,"date":"2026-03-25T23:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/545253\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T23:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:26:09","slug":"tempo-opts-for-familiarity-in-hiring-2-time-wnba-champion-olaf-lange-as-assistant-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/545253\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempo opts for familiarity in hiring 2-time WNBA champion Olaf Lange as assistant coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Tempo has added two-time WNBA champion  <\/p>\n<p>Olaf Lange as associate head coach, the team announced Wednesday.  <\/p>\n<p>Lange joins head coach Sandy Brondello and assistant coaches Ciara Carl and Brian Lankton on the WNBA expansion team.  <\/p>\n<p>Lange most recently served as an assistant coach with the New York Liberty from 2022 to 2025, helping the franchise to a WNBA title in 2024.  <\/p>\n<p>He previously won a WNBA title with the Chicago Sky in 2021.  <\/p>\n<p>The Berlin native, who turns 54 on Monday, is currently an assistant on Brondello&#8217;s staff with the Australian women&#8217;s team.  <\/p>\n<p>The Tempo open their inaugural season May 8 against the Washington Mystics at Toronto&#8217;s Coca-Cola Coliseum.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Olaf is another women&#8217;s basketball industry expert whose experience immediately elevates our organization,&#8221; Tempo general manager Monica Wright Rogers said in a news release.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a WNBA champion, a national team head coach, and someone who has coached across multiple continents.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-545253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545253","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=545253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}