What You Need To Know About Coaching The `I Generation`

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Jenny Boucek

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Jennifer Boucek is an assistant coach for the Dallas Mavericks. Boucek became just the third woman to coach in the NBA after spending the 2017-18 season as an assistant coach with the Sacramento Kings. She spent three seasons as the head coach of the WNBA’s Seattle Storm and two seasons as the head coach of the Sacramento Monarchs prior to joining the Kings,

Following a career-ending injury in 1998, she began her coaching career as an assistant with the Washington Mystics in 1999. She then spent three seasons (2000-02) in the same capacity with the Miami Sol. In her first stint with Seattle from 2003-05, Boucek was an assistant coach on staff that included the franchise’s first WNBA Championship in 2004. 

The Storm won their second WNBA crown in 2010 with Boucek on staff in a similar role.

Coach Boucek is distinguished as the first athlete to play in the WNBA and subsequently serve as both an assistant and head coach in the league.

Bourcek played collegiate basketball at the University of Virginia from 1992–1996 and helped lead the Cavaliers to four regular-season ACC Championships and three NCAA Elite Eight appearances. Coach Bouch finished her career at Virginia with over 1000 points, was two-time Defensive Player of the Year, two-time GTE All-American and two-time ACC selection.