Kara Lawson Is The New Head Coach Of The Duke Women's Basketball Program

Kara Lawson has many titles to her name!

What are they?

WNBA Player, Broadcaster, Assistant Coach!

She played 13 seasons in the WNBA where she she averaged 9.8 points (41.4% FG, 39.0% 3-PT), 2.6 rebounds, and 2.5 assists over 377 career games with the Sacramento Monarchs, Connecticut Sun, and Washington Mystics from 2003 to 2015. In addition to her WNBA career, which included a championship with the Monarchs in 2005 and an All-Star appearance in 2007, Lawson was a member of the Team USA roster that captured the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. “according to https://www.nba.com/celtics/roster/coaches/kara-lawson

She was an analyst for Washington as well as working for ESPN as a game and studio analyst for both Men’s and Women’s College Basketball as well as the NBA.

Now Kara Lawson can add another title to her name!

What is it?

Head Coach!

Kara Lawson replaces Joanne P. McCallie who resigned after thirteen seasons as the head coach of Duke.

McCallie was 330-107 in her 13 seasons and was a three-time league coach of the year. Her teams won at least a share of the regular-season title four times and three ACC tournament titles while also making 10 trips to the NCAA tournament, including four consecutive trips to the Elite Eight in 2010-13. “according to an article by Mechelle Voepel on espn.com

But with the arrival of Notre Dame and Louisville into the ACC, Duke's success began to wane. The Blue Devils have not been in the league's top three in the regular season in four of the past seven seasons.according to an article by Mechelle Voepel on espn.com

How will Duke perform with Kara Lawson as the head coach of the Duke Women’s Basketball Program? Right now I don’t know the answer to that question but my hope is they get back to being relevant again, competing for Atlantic Coast Conference Championships and that they can get past the elite eight and advance to the final four because that is something Joanne P. McCallie couldn’t do during her tenure in Durham!