Carly Thibault has never considered another career.
The Eastern Michigan University women’s basketball assistant has coaching in her blood. Carly’s dad, Mike Thibault (pronounced TEE-bo), is the winningest WNBA coach of all time, three-time WNBA Coach of the Year and currently the coach and general manager of the WNBA’s Washington Mystics.
“I could have played overseas after I got done playing in college, but I knew ultimately I wanted to coach, so I didn’t necessarily see the point in putting it off,” Thibault said about her post-college decision.
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Over more than 35 years of professional coaching, Carly’s dad has made a lot of connections, and Carly used those connections to land her first job in the business as Florida State’s Director of Recruiting Operations in 2013, right after graduating from Monmouth University.