Morgan State names former WNBA player Nadine Domond as head coach of women's basketball

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Former WNBA subordinate Nadine Domond has been named arsenic the caller caput manager of Morgan State University's women's hoops team.

The announcement comes aft the departure of erstwhile Head Coach Ed Davis, Jr., who retired from a 33-year coaching vocation successful March aft the team's nonaccomplishment to Maryland Eastern Shore successful the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.

Who is Nadine Domond?

Domond antecedently served arsenic caput manager for Virginia State University's Lady Trojans. She led the squad to consecutive 20-win seasons and their archetypal NCAA Division II tourney appearance.

She was named CIAA Women's Basketball Coach of the Year and HBCU All-Stars Lonnie Bartley NCAA Division II National Coach of the Year.

Her assignment arsenic caput manager comes astatine a clip erstwhile women's assemblage hoops is gaining nationalist attention.

"This accidental comes astatine the cleanable time—not conscionable successful my travel but successful the improvement of women's assemblage hoops and the emergence of HBCU programs crossed the country," Domond said.

"Morgan represents everything I judge successful excellence, legacy, and a committedness to processing student-athletes into champions successful each arena of their lives. I chose Morgan due to the fact that I spot the vision, the potential, and the hunger to win, and I'm acceptable to physique thing peculiar here," she added.

Domond earned a USA National Team metallic medal successful 1997. After earning her bachelor's grade astatine the University of Iowa, she was chosen arsenic the New York Liberty's 19th prime successful the 1998 WNBA draft. She played for the Sacramento Monarchs.

Domond began her coaching vocation arsenic a postgraduate adjunct and past adjunct manager astatine Hampton University. She moved connected to coaching astatine Rutgers University and Grambling State University earlier landing astatine Virginia State University.

Domond volition beryllium the archetypal caller caput manager for the Lady Bears successful astir a decade, assemblage officials said.

"Morgan has ever been a spot wherever excellence is not lone expected but cultivated—and that is precisely what we spot successful Coach Nadine Domond," Morgan State University President David Wilson said. "She brings a title mindset, a proven way grounds of processing women some connected and disconnected the court, and a imaginativeness that aligns perfectly with our aspirations for the Lady Bears."