Connecticut Sun first-year head coach Stephanie White was named the 2023 Coach of the Year, the league announced on Sunday. White and the No. 3 ranked Sun can clinch their spot in the semifinals with a win against the No. 7 Lynx later on in the day.
White earned 36 votes of the 60 submitted by a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters. She is the fourth former player to win the award, joining Becky Hammon , Sandy Brondello and Suzie McConnell-Serio .
White, a former player, first had to adjust following the trade of Jonquel Jones to the Liberty in a three-team deal that brought in Rebecca Allen. She had to pivot 13 games into the season when center Brionna Jones, a former Most Improved and Sixth Player winner, ruptured her Achilles and was ruled out for the season. Connecticut barely missed a beat in covering her absence while Alyssa Thomas averaged nearly a triple-double as a leading contender in the MVP race.
Brondello is in her second year as Liberty head coach following eight seasons in Phoenix that included the 2014 WNBA championship. She earned her one Coach of the Year honor that season and finished third this season with six votes. Her assistants are Olaf Lange, Roneeka Hodges and Zach O'Brien. General Manager Jonathan Kolb was named Executive of the YearBrondello was tasked with melding all of the pieces of a super-team together in the offseason and building chemistry for a postseason run.
Las Vegas finished first in offensive and defensive rating this season. Their 113.77 ortg is second in league history behind the 2019 Washington Mystics mark of 114.55. The Mystics won the title that year. Their 97.7 defensive rating bests last year’s seventh-ranked mark of 101.2 from last season. And their 15.3 net rating is more than double that of last year’s squad .
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