On Monday, USA Basketball announced that Duke University women’s basketball head coach Kara Lawson was named the 2025-2028 women’s national team head coach which will include the 2026 FIBA Women’s World Cup in Germany and the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Lawson already coached Team USA in the 2025 Women’s AmeriCup, where the Americans won the Gold Medal.
Lawson of course isn’t just the Duke women’s basketball coach. She was a long time WNBA player and spent the 2014 and 2015 seasons with the Washington Mystics. She was also the TV color analyst for the Washington Wizards for two years with Steve Buckhantz from 2017-19. After leaving the Wizards, Lawson spent one year as an assistant coach with the Boston Celtics.
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It’s early to say whether the Mystics will have representation on Team USA. The Olympics are still three years away. But it’s cool to see that Team USA will have a head coach who has direct ties to a team right here in the DMV.
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