DURHAM – Duke women's basketball head coach Kara Lawson has been named as one of three USA Basketball Women's National Team assistant coaches for the 2024 Paris Olympics, USA Basketball announced on Tuesday.
Lawson joins Mike Thibault (Washington Mystics) and Joni Taylor (Texas A&M) as assistants on head coach Cheryl Reeve's (Minnesota Lynx) staff. The coaching staff, who together led the USA to its 11th gold medal at the 2022 FIBA Women's World Cup, was selected by the USA Basketball Women's National Team Committee.
"When I was a kid, my first athletic goal was to represent the U.