By hiring a new head coach , i think the Atlanta dream has done a good move.

By hiring a new head coach , i think the Atlanta dream has done a good move.

During the league’s offseason, a second-year WNBA player recently joined the ranks of a collegiate coaching staff.

Atlanta Dream athlete Rhyne Howard will become an assistant coach and director of player personnel for the Gators, according to the Florida women’s basketball team. Due to her mother Rhvonja (R.J.) Avery’s time while playing for the university from 1987 to 1991, Howard has familial links to Florida.

When you give it some serious thought, everything comes full circle. Howard said in a written statement, “My mom was a Gator herself, and I have visited this campus numerous times, but to actually be able to wear the orange and blue, I know it’s making her proud, as well as everyone who thought I was originally going to be a Florida Gator.” “I always knew that eventually I would feel a connection to this school again, and it has just confirmed everything to be here, to be loved, and to feel like such a big family.”

Howard, who graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2022, is hardly out of college herself. She was selected first overall by a WNBA team, becoming her the first and only Kentucky athlete in program history to do so.

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She won two SEC (Southeastern Conference) Player of the Year awards while attending Kentucky, rising to the position of all-time great three-point shooter for the program (2020 and 2021). Additionally, in 2022, she was named the MVP of the SEC Tournament and was included on the All-SEC First Team in each of her four years (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022).

“It has always been important to me that we surround our student-athletes with people who can help equip them with the skills necessary to succeed as professionals on and off the court,” Florida Gators head coach Kelly Rae Finley stated. Rhyne is driven, considerate, competitive, and modest. She is fulfilling a lot of the aspirations of our student athletes. Her skill in teaching and building relationships with players both on and off the court, together with her understanding of the game, will improve our program.

In the WNBA, her second season was fruitful. She averaged 17.5 points per game even though the Dream was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.

She became the first rookie in league history last year to start their debut with four blocks and four three-pointers. In her debut season in the league, she was named an All-Star player and took home the WNBA Kia Rookie of the Year and Associated Press Rookie of the Year awards.