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McCray-Penson was an assistant girls’s basketball coach at Rutgers final season and the college on Friday confirmed her demise.
Two-time Olympic gold-medalist and former ABL MVP Nikki McCray-Penson has died. She was 51.
McCray-Penson was an assistant girls’s basketball coach at Rutgers final season and the college on Friday confirmed her demise. She was identified with breast most cancers in 2013.
She joined Daybreak Staley as an assistant coach at South Carolina from 2008-17. She was a part of the Gamecocks’ first nationwide championship in 2017.
McCray-Penson gained gold medals with the U.S. girls’s basketball group on the 1996 and 2000 Olympics. The 1996 group sparked the formation of the WNBA and ABL. She performed within the ABL and gained MVP honors in 1997 earlier than heading over to the WNBA. McCray-Penson was a three-time All-Star in that league whereas taking part in for the Washington Mystics.
She performed eight seasons within the WNBA earlier than retiring in 2006. She was an assistant coach at Western Kentucky for 3 seasons.
McCray-Penson then turned the pinnacle coach at Outdated Dominion for 3 seasons, going 24-6 in 2020. She spent one 12 months at Mississippi State earlier than stepping down for well being causes and returned to teaching at Rutgers final season.
McCray-Penson performed at Tennessee from 1991-95 underneath Corridor of Fame coach Pat Summitt. The guard was a two-time SEC Participant of the Yr and a two-time Kodak All-America standout throughout her junior and senior seasons for the Girl Vols.
She was inducted into the Ladies’s Basketball Corridor of Fame in 2012.