Windward Faculty all the time knew it had the most effective ladies’ basketball coach in Vanessa Nygaard. The one query was how lengthy would the Wildcats be capable of hold her.
The WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury introduced Monday that Nygaard has been chosen as its new head coach.
Nygaard coached her closing sport for Windward on Saturday. Assistant Ronald Cass will take over teaching Windward for the remainder of the season on an interim foundation. One other Windward coach, Ebony Hoffman, who took over the staff final season whereas Nygaard was teaching within the WNBA, might be teaching with the Seattle Storm as an assistant. The Windward job might be opened up and ought to be one of the vital sought-after positions in ladies’ basketball.
Nygaard served as an assistant with the Las Vegas Aces final season when she took a 12 months off from highschool teaching. She was head coach at Windward for 10 seasons. She guided the Wildcats to 2 state titles and has coached such high gamers as Jordin Canada, Charisma Osborne and Juju Watkins. She starred at Stanford, performed six years within the WNBA and was a university assistant earlier than settling in at Windward, the place she has been a instructor and coach.
“We knew sooner or later it was going to occur,” athletic director Tyrone Powell stated of dropping Nygaard.
Nygaard grew up in Scottsdale, Ariz., and might be shifting to the Phoenix space.
Windward is 14-6 this season and is scheduled to play Chatsworth Sierra Canyon on Feb. 2. It could have been a much-anticipated matchup as a result of Nygaard coached Watkins, who transferred to Sierra Canyon.
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