WNBA"
Plenette Pierson, after a year away from playing, is back in the WNBA as a
first-year Minnesota Lynx assistant coach. Pierson retired in 2017 after 15 seasons with three teams. She played her last summer in Minnesota and earned her third WNBA championship ring.
The Texas native played her college ball at Texas Tech (1999-03) and was the fourth overall pick by Phoenix in 2003. Four years later, Pierson became the W's first Sixth Woman Award winner (2007), eventually played on three title teams (Detroit in 2006, 2008; Minnesota in 2017), and finished with a nine-point career scoring average, over six points below her 15.4 college scoring average. Pierson also played overseas for four off-seasons and played on two championships (Israel, 2012; Slovak, 2013).
Pierson is among 12 former league players now on team benches as coaches."
Link for entire 20 July 2019 articlehttp://spokesman-recorder.com/2019/07/20/coaching-lets-retired-lynx-player-give-back-to-game-she-loves/