March 26, 2025
Wakama is able to coach alongside the Chicago Sky employees and serve the group because it embarks on the 2025 season. “Let’s get to work!”
After main the Nigerian Girls’s Nationwide Workforce to victory within the 2024 Paris Olympics, basketball coach Rena Wakama is able to get to work in her new place as an assistant coach for the Chicago Sky.
Wakama will be a part of head coach Tyler Marsh’s employees alongside two current additions to the assistant teaching employees, Courtney Paris and Tanisha Wright. “I’m honored and grateful for Jeff and Tyler for granting me the chance to hitch the Chicago Sky household,” Wakama stated in a March 24 press launch by the Chicago Sky.
The Raleigh, North Carolina, native involves the Chicago Sky prepared to assist carry Marsh’s imaginative and prescient to life on the court docket and serve the group. As she seems to be ahead to working alongside the remainder of the employees, she hopes her contributions to the crew will “create a model of basketball that’s not solely aggressive but in addition enjoyable to look at.”
Marsh believes Wakama’s profitable mindset and angle will considerably influence the crew’s program. “We’ve seen her success this previous summer season with the Nigerian Nationwide Workforce on the Olympics, constructing on a formidable profitable report and in depth background in teaching and participant growth,” he stated. Wakama’s teaching efficiency within the 2024 Paris Olympics this previous summer season awarded her the title of Greatest Coach by FIBA. She brings a wealth of expertise to the assistant teaching place following six years as director of basketball operations for Manhattan School and a earlier assistant teaching place with the Jaspers.
The Nigerian celebrity sits on the forefront of a variety of historic firsts within the sport. August 2023 was a pivotal second in her profession when she made historical past as the primary feminine coach ever to win the Girls’s AfroBasketball title. She scored the popularity after being employed in June 2023 to guide the Nigerian Girls’s Nationwide Basketball crew as head coach. Moreover, Wakama has been acknowledged as one of many youngest head coaches in Olympic historical past. As a Western Carolina College participant, she was named Southern Convention All-Match Second Workforce Honors and a Southern Convention Educational Workforce honoree 3 times.
The Chicago Sky will begin its 2025 common season on Could 17. The 2025 schedule contains three pre-season video games.
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