WNBA Great Joins Women’s Basketball Coaching Staff

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Seven-time WNBA All-Star Yolanda Griffith has joined the Dartmouth Big Green women’s basketball coaching staff, announced Dartmouth Athletics Director Harry Sheehy and women’s basketball head coach Chris Wielgus.

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Yolanda Griffith is joining the Dartmouth women’s basketball coaching staff. (photo courtesy of Dartmouth Athletics)

Griffith played professionally for 16 years on three continents and for five different leagues, and in both the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games, earned a gold medal as a member of Team USA.

“Yolanda is one of the pioneers of our game,” Wielgus stated. “Her athletic accomplishments and work ethic are legendary. But she is also a great teacher of the fundamentals of the game.”

Read the full story, published by Dartmouth Athletics on 08/18/11.

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