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Tamara Moore, first Black woman to coach men’s college team, joins Celtics Summer League staff

The Celtics are adding Tamara Moore, a trailblazer in the basketball world, to their Summer League coaching staff.

Moore, 42, became the first Black woman to coach a men’s collegiate basketball team when she took the head coaching job at Mesabi Range College in Virginia, Minnesota, in 2020.

She played at the University of Wisconsin, followed by seven seasons in the WNBA, where she won a title with the Detroit Shock in 2003. Moore is currently making strides in the coaching world.

She thanked Allison Feaster, Stacey Lovelace, and Taj McWilliams-Franklin, her “WNBA sisters,” for helping to make this possible.