Minnesota Lynx head coach and president of basketball operations Cheryl Reeve has been named the 2024 WNBA Coach of the Year and Executive of the Year, the league announced on Sunday. This is just the second time (Curt Miller, 2017) that one person has won both awards in the same season.
Reeve, who has been the head coach of the Lynx since 2010, has now won four Coach of the Year awards, surpassing Van Chancellor and Mike Thibault for the most all-time. Furthermore, this is her second Executive of the Year honor, which is tied for the most ever with Dan Padover.
As the Lynx’s president of basketball operations, Reeve played a key role in their offseason maneuvers that included signing Alanna Smith and Courtney Williams in free agency, re-signing Bridget Carleton and trading for Natisha Hiedeman. She also swung a mid-season trade for Myisha Hines-Allen, who has proved to be a key rotation player down the stretch.
Those new additions played a major role in the Lynx’s phenomenal season, which Reeve oversaw on the floor. They got off to a 14-4 start, which no one expected, then proved it was no fluke by winning 13 of 15 games after the Olympic break. All told, they won a franchise-record 30 games and…
