From college walk-on to law degree, college coach of the year, NBA assistant and now WNBA head coach #TheComeUp The Seattle Storm have hired Sonia Raman as the team’s next head coach. After graduating with a law degree from Boston College, Raman’s career on the sideline began in 2002 as an assistant coach at Wellesley College. In 2008 Raman took over as head coach at MIT, becoming becoming the program’s winningest coach and earning back-to-back NEWMAC Coach of the Year honors in 2016 and 2017. Then in 2020, Raman broke into the NBA joined the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies as an assistant coach. She became the first Indian-American woman and the 14th woman ever on an NBA coaching staff. Most recently she joined the 2025 staff of the New York Liberty. She’ll take over a Seattle Storm team that spent the past 4+ seasons under coach Noelle Quinn. The storm finished 4th in the western conference and lost in the first round to eventual champion Las Vegas Aces.