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Former Lady Lion Tanisha Wright Named WNBA Coach of the Year

You may remember Tanisha Wright as one of the stars for Penn State Women’s Basketball from 2001-2005. After an amazing career in Happy Valley where she scored 1,995 points and averaged 14.9 points per game, Wright moved on to the WNBA where she continued her winning ways for fourteen seasons with the Seattle Storm, New York Liberty, and Minnesota Lynx, including winning the 2010 WNBA Championship with Seattle.

Following her playing career, Wright picked up the clipboard and whistle and in 2021 she was named the head coach of the Atlanta Dream. In her first year she lead the Dream to a 14-22 record, which earned a fifth place finish in the conference for the team.