The Chicago Sky introduced on Saturday the hiring of a brand new assistant head coach to affix Tyler Marsh’s workers, and it’s a well-known title: Tanisha Wright. Wright was the top coach of the Atlanta Dream from 2021 to 2024 earlier than being dismissed in early October. She was changed by long-time FGCU head coach Karl Smesko.
Wright will assist bolster a corporation that’s largely centered round Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso, the Sky’s first-round draft picks in 2024.
Earlier than teaching, Wright performed within the WNBA for 14 seasons, 10 of which have been with the Seattle Storm. She was an elite defender — and was named to the WNBA All-Defensive First Staff 5 occasions and the All-Defensive Second Staff twice.
“Tanisha has constructed an excellent resume as a participant and coach within the WNBA with greater than a decade of expertise,” Marsh stated, per the workforce’s official press launch. “With an extended historical past of accomplishment and participant growth, she’s going to assist us to construct a profitable tradition on the Sky.”
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Beforehand, the workforce introduced former WNBA participant Courtney Paris could be one in all Marsh’s assistant coaches. Paris most just lately labored as an assistant coach for the Dallas Wings, underneath Latricia Trammell.
Notably, Marsh’s first two assistant coach hires are each former WNBA standouts with teaching expertise.
It’s been an offseason of dramatic teaching turnover within the WNBA
Tanisha Wright was one in all six head coaches who have been fired this previous offseason — and is the second to simply accept an assistant teaching place elsewhere within the league. The opposite is Eric Thibault, who will function an assistant coach on the Minnesota Lynx underneath Cheryl Reeve.
Moreover, Curt Miller, who was dismissed from his function as head coach of the Los Angeles Sparks, will function head coach of the Dallas Wings.
The opposite fired head coaches — Latricia Trammell (Dallas Wings), Christie Sides (Indiana Fever), and Teresa Weatherspoon (Chicago Sky) — have but to publicly settle for new positions within the WNBA.
Within the meantime, Weatherspoon shall be teaching in Unmatched, the brand new 3-on-3 skilled ladies’s basketball league that can tip-off in Miami on Jan. seventeenth and hasn’t dominated out a return to the WNBA.