UConn women’s basketball is bringing on two new assistant coaches: Tonya Cardoza and Ben Kantor.
The NCAA now allows basketball programs to hire up to five assistant coaches (instead of the previous three), though the two new positions created cannot do any off-campus recruiting. That means Cardoza and Kantor will join Geno Auriemma’s staff alongside associate head coach Chris Dailey and fellow assistants Jamelle Elliott and Morgan Valley. Kantor will start his new job immediately while Cardoza begins on Friday, July 14.
Cardoza worked as an assistant for the Huskies from 1994-2008 before taking over at Temple from 2008-2022 while Kantor has been the team’s video coordinator since 2015.