CHICAGO The Chicago Sky have actually called WNBA tale and Hall of Famer Teresa Weatherspoon as the franchise business's new head instructor, the team introduced today."We are thrilled to invite Teresa Weatherspoon as the new head coach of the Chicago Sky, " Skies Co-Owner Operating Chairman Nadia Rawlinson claimed. "A WNBA legend and five-time All-Star, Olympian, and university national champ, Teresa brings a riches of NBA and college training experience to the Skies. Her standard of quality and history of winning at all degrees, enthusiasm, power, and ability in gamer development make Teresa the excellent selection to improve our champion society and introduce an exciting new era."She was picked No. 10 general to New York in the WNBA's inaugural draft in 1997. Weatherspoon after that spent an epic eight-year job in the league, with her first 7 seasons with New York and her last year with Los Angeles. She led the Liberty to the first-ever WNBA Finals in 1997 and 1999. Weatherspoon is No. 2 on the Liberty's All-Time Minutes played checklist, No. 1 All-Time Assists and No. 1 in All-Time Takes for the franchise business. She returned to New York as the Liberty's very first Director of Player and Franchise Business Development from 2015 to 2019. In 2016, she was named to the organization's Top-20 finest and most influential players in WNBA background. She is a five-time WNBA All-Star Starter, four-time All-WNBA Junior varsity, two-time WNBA Defensive Gamer of the Year the very first WNBA player ever to be named DPOY in 1997 league leader in Assists and Swipes in 1997, WNBA All-Decade Team Honorable Reference and called to WNBA Top-15 gamers."I'm thrilled to be a part of the Chicago Sky Family, " Weatherspoon said. "To be the leader, as Head Coach, of a company in a city with so much history and culture is a dream come real. Things that we will do as a team, an organization and in the area will be rooted in excitement, excellence and hard job. I am grateful to the whole Chicago company for experiencing this procedure and picking me. I can not wait to reach work!"Weatherspoon has actually been inducted to 5 Hall of Fames, consisting of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Popularity, Texas Sports Hall of Fame, Louisiana Sports Hall of Popularity, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and the Louisiana Technology Athletic Hall of , the Pineland, Texas citizen is additionally a two-time Olympic Gamings medalist, gaining Gold in 1988 and Bronze in 1992 with Team USA. She also invested 6 years of playing job in Italy Sky Jersey, where she was called a six-time Italian Organization All-Star and a two-time Russian League joins the Skies with well over a years of mentoring experience. She began her training job in 2007 as head instructor of the Westchester Phantoms of the American Basketball 2008, she joined the mentoring staff at Louisiana Tech and was promoted to head coach in 2009. She led her alma mater to back-to-back NCAA Tournament looks, a Western Athletic Meeting Tournament title and a WAC regular-season championship. The two-time All-American tallied a 99-71 record as the Girl Techsters' head additionally led Louisiana Technology to an NCAA Champion as a player in 1988 and is the No. 1 All-Time Help leader in college history. Her No. 11 jersey is currently retired at LA Tech. On September 20, 2023, Weatherspoon was one of 6 LA Technology tales to be bestowed a statue at the lately, the New Orleans Pelicans hired Weatherspoon as a two-way gamer development coach in 2019 and remained on the coaching team as an assistant until 2023.