Not too long ago fired WNBA coach will get new teaching place

Former Seattle Storm head coach Noelle Quinn is becoming a member of the UCLA ladies’s basketball group’s teaching employees as an assistant, the group introduced on Wednesday.

Quinn attended UCLA from 2003 to 2007 earlier than being drafted fourth total by the Minnesota Lynx. Her WNBA profession included stops with the Lynx, the Los Angeles Sparks, the Washington Mystics, the Seattle Storm, and the Phoenix Mercury. She performed within the WNBA till 2018 and have become a Storm assistant coach the next season. In 2021, she turned Seattle’s head coach.

However, she was let go after the 2025 WNBA season, and spent the following winter as a head coach for Unequalled, the 3-on-3 ladies’s basketball league co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart.

Now, Quinn will return to UCLA, the place all of it started.

Led by head coach Cori Shut, the Bruins are contemporary off a nationwide title. Now, with a lot of the pivotal gamers from that roster within the WNBA, Shut provides Quinn to the group. The previous UCLA standout gained a WNBA title as a participant in 2018 and as an assistant coach in 2019, and was the main scorer for the Bruins within the championship recreation on the 2006 Pac-10 Event.

“We’re so excited to welcome Noelle again house,” mentioned Shut. “She has gained championships in faculty and the WNBA as a participant, and she or he has helped seize a WNBA championship as a coach. Tactically and developmentally, she is elite! However I’m most enthusiastic about who she is and the way she’s going to assist us create champions from the within out. She is as positive of a human as any have met since being at UCLA. I couldn’t be extra thrilled so as to add her to our employees!”

“I’m simply honored to be on Cori’s employees, to have the ability to add worth, but in addition to be taught from a championship-level coach whose servant management is on full show every single day,” she mentioned. “From how she coaches her group, to how she leads together with her employees, how she pours into the group, she is without doubt one of the greatest leaders that I’ve seen and I’m simply comfortable to have the ability to be in her hemisphere every single day.”