With Monday’s official announcement of Stephanie White as new coach of the Connecticut Sun, every WNBA coaching position is now filled for the 2023 season.
White returns to the WNBA, where she previously was head coach of the Indiana Fever in 2015 and 2016. There are also new coaches for the Dallas Wings (Latricia Trammell), Indiana (Christie Sides), the Los Angeles Sparks (Curt Miller) and the Washington Mystics (Eric Thibault). White and Miller have both been head coaches at the WNBA level — for the last seven years, Miller led the Sun team that White is now taking over — while the others have been WNBA assistants.
The eventual sale of the Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury still could potentially affect the Mercury’s coaching position, but Vanessa Nygaard is poised to return for her second season there. White, Trammell, Sides, Miller and Thibault all have careerlong histories in women’s college basketball and the WNBA. But each have had their own journeys.
Here is a look at their backgrounds, their strengths and some of the challenges they might face.
