Duke head coach Kara Lawson was named to lead the U.S. women's basketball team on Monday.

A gold medalist as a player in 2008 and an assistant coach on the championship team in 2024, Lawson will look to complete the Olympic trifecta at the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles.

"To win a gold medal as a player was amazing, and one of the earliest goals that I set out when I was young," Lawson told ESPN. "I think that is what drives you because you know how great that feels and you want the players you coach to experience that. You get to have this permanent memory in your sport and so the goal is to try to help them create that for themselves at the different world events."

Lawson, 44, has led the Blue Devils since the COVID-shortened 2020-21 season. She has compiled a 97-41 record with thre

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