LOS ANGELES — Nikki Blue is becoming a member of the workers at USC as an assistant coach for the ladies’s basketball crew.
Blue is making a fast pivot from the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks, who employed her as an assistant in January.
She had been the interim head coach for the Phoenix Mercury over the ultimate 28 video games of the 2023 season after becoming a member of the franchise as an assistant in 2022.
Earlier than working on the professional stage, Blue was an assistant at UNLV, Cal State Bakersfield, Grand Canyon and Arizona State over 16 seasons.
“Now we have elite gamers who wish to finally grow to be professionals, so we needed so as to add somebody who has professional expertise,” Trojans coach Lindsay Gottlieb mentioned in an announcement Wednesday.
Blue was a star guard for crosstown rival UCLA in 2002-06 earlier than taking part in within the WNBA for 5 years with Washington and New York. She additionally performed two years in Turkey and Greece.