Nell Fortner isn’t done coaching just yet.
On Monday, Canada Basketball named the 66-year-old the head coach of its senior women’s national team, putting the recently retired Georgia Tech coach back on the sidelines for the near future.
This isn’t Fortner’s first foray into international basketball, of course. She was the head coach of Team USA in the 2000 Olympics and guided the Americans to a gold medal. In Four years coaching the U.S. — from 1997 through 2000 — she piled up a wildly impressive record of 101-14.
Fortner’s appointment means she could be coaching against the U.S. at the 2026 FIBA World Cup in Germany, or at
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