According to Jim Fuller of the New Haven Register and Rich Elliott of the Connecticut Post, UConn Huskies women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma will be named the coach of the USA Women’s Basketball Team for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Auriemma will be the coach of USA Women’s Basketball for the next 3 years and the team will play in the FIBA World Championships in 2010 in the Czech Republic from Sept. 23-Oct. 3. He will coach the team through the 2012 Summer Olympics.
He has some Olympic experience as he was an assistant in 2000 under Nell Fortner, who is now the coach at Auburn.
The announcement should become official tomorrow afternoon at a press conference on campus at UConn.
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