It wasn’t a meeting that, at first glance, foretold of some momentous and extremely successful working relationship. It was more like grabbing an after-work burger.
In the spring of 1996, and LaTonya Watson was visiting Colorado Springs from Texas while working a basketball camp at the Air Force Academy. Ceal Barry, then the women’s basketball coach at Colorado, was working as an assistant coach for the U.S. Women’s National Team, which would win a gold medal later that summer at the Atlanta Olympics.
Barry met Watson at a nearby Boston Market for one of the most informal yet ultimately successful job interviews in Colorado basketball history.