Unequalled introduced its newest assortment of head coaches for its second season, set to tip off in January.
Unequalled’s listing of head coaches for its second season may properly be … Unequalled.
Along with rounding out its participant roster for the 2026 marketing campaign, the league—co-founded by WNBA All-Stars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart—unveiled its full teaching workers for the second go-around.
There are many acquainted names on the docket, as 4 entrants from final yr’s festivities will return for one more go at three-on-three glory. There are additionally 4 new names on the ledger. Two will take over the newly shaped squads, whereas a few others will lead authentic franchises searching for new bosses.
“We’re thrilled so as to add such distinctive expertise to our head teaching roster in our second season, elevating the sturdy basis established by our inaugural teaching staffs throughout Unequalled,” Unequalled common supervisor Clare Duwelius mentioned in a league assertion whereas bidding farewell to the departed names from the maiden voyage. “[We] sit up for constructing on the momentum for the league this yr.”
Nola Henry and DJ Sackmann are among the many returnees, as Unequalled will respectively welcome again the overseer of its inaugural champion and its first Coach of the 12 months winner. Andrew Wade and Teresa Weatherspoon will likewise return to Wayfair Area in Miami, with a quick cease in Philadelphia additionally on the docket.
With Unequalled due for a January return, view the total listing of coaches beneath.
The 2026 head coaches are SET 👀 Welcome to season 2 👑 pic.twitter.com/WBJY9lWWmQ
— Unequalled Basketball (@Unrivaledwbb) October 30, 2025
Nola Henry, Rose BC
Time will inform if Henry, who boasts Division I collegiate expertise with each the College of Massachusetts and the Faculty of Charleston, sticks round as an assistant coach with the Dallas Wings after Jose Fernandez’s ascension to the highest spot. In the intervening time, nevertheless, she’s going to get an opportunity to defend the Unequalled championship she earned on the helm of Rose BC, which downed Vinyl BC for the inaugural title final March.
After working as a de facto apprentice to Curt Miller throughout earlier WNBA stops with the Connecticut Solar and Los Angeles Sparks, Henry helped oversee the rookie tour of North Texas’ prime decide Paige Bueckers, who is ready to make her personal Unequalled debut this time round after residing as much as each expectation after which some in her WNBA premieres.
Roneeka Hodges, Phantom BC
Hodges is likely one of the quick risers on the WNBA teaching circuit after a enjoying profession that noticed her signify six golf equipment over 11 seasons. The Florida State alumna earned her first WNBA teaching job with the New York Liberty, serving as an assistant on the Sandy Brondello workers that led the franchise to its long-sought first championship in 2024. Hodges spent this previous tour serving as Rachid Meziane’s de facto lieutenant in Connecticut and can take over Phantom’s helm from Adam Harrington.
Zach O’Brien, Mist BC
Stewart is sort of the pal to have: O’Brien is one other disciple of Brondello’s Brooklyn days, having served as an assistant coach with Hodges, Olaf Lange, and newly minted Seattle Storm boss Sonia Raman over the previous 4 excursions. Beforehand starring as a Division III shooter at Saint Joseph’s Faculty of Maine, O’Brien has had a task in two of the final 5 WNBA Finals matchups, together with the 2021 version with Brondello as a participant growth rep with the Phoenix Mercury.
He’s been fairly busy within the desert, gaining expertise within the video division of the Phoenix Suns’ G League affiliate. On this new alternative, O’Brien succeeds Phil Useful, who beforehand led the Mist through the inaugural Unequalled displaying.
Noelle Quinn, Breeze BC
Quinn didn’t keep unemployed for lengthy, as the chance to guide one in every of Unequalled’s enlargement squads comes simply over a month after she was relieved of obligation from the Seattle Storm’s prime spot. All issues thought of, Quinn did a stable job guiding the Storm within the post-Stewart/Sue Chicken period after Dan Hughes’ in-season retirement in 2021, posting the sixth-best win proportion within the WNBA throughout that span and giving the eventual champion Las Vegas Aces all they might deal with throughout her remaining act within the opening spherical of the final postseason.
Quinn, an assistant on Seattle’s final championship group in 2020 and the profitable coach of the inaugural Commissioner’s Cup championship the yr after, may have loads of former proteges to doubtlessly work with on the Unequalled circuit: new homegrown franchise face Dominique Malonga grew to become the fifth Pacific Northwest consultant to affix the 2025 Unequalled trigger, becoming a member of Skylar Diggins, Ezi Magbegor, Brittney Sykes, and Erica Wheeler.
DJ Sackmann, Lunar Owls BC
One other coach set to reprise his Unequalled position, Sackmann has earned a status as one of many prime participant builders on each the lads’s and ladies’s circuits. He initially gained off-court fame when NBA champion Patty Mills known as upon him to prep for Australia’s 2021 Olympic run, and his expertise have since gone nationwide.
With the Lunar Owls profitable all however one in every of their 14 regular-season video games and constructing a triple-digit level differential (one in every of many stage classes they paced through the common season), Sackmann grew to become the winner of Unequalled’s first-ever Coach of the 12 months title.
Andrew Wade, Laces BC
Wade parlayed his success in Unequalled, which featured a playoff look for the Laces, right into a developmental position with the Liberty, constructing a fast rapport with gamers amidst their championship protection. It was Wade, for instance, who accompanied Jonquel Jones again residence to the Bahamas when the reigning Finals MVP wished some work again residence over the All-Star break.
Moreover, Wade additionally performed a significant position in acclimating Emma Meesseman to the seafoam tradition upon her in-season arrival. Wade beforehand had a behind-the-scenes position through the Washington Mystics’ 2019 championship run, which featured Meesseman and present Liberty/Unequalled consultant, Natasha Cloud.
Rena Wakama, Hive BC
Wakama is the thrill behind the Hive, one other incoming Unequalled group in yr two. At 33, she has already established fairly the teaching title for herself, at the moment serving as an assistant on Tyler Marsh’s workers with the Chicago Sky after a number of excursions as an assistant on the collegiate circuit (primarily a six-year stint at her alma mater, Manhattan).
So far, nevertheless, her crowning achievement has come on the helm of the Nigerian girls’s nationwide basketball group, main the best way throughout its most prolific Olympic run in Paris. With its upset victories over Canada and eventual bronze medalist Australia, D’Tigress grew to become the primary African squad of both gender to safe a spot within the Olympic knockout spherical. For her efforts, Wakama took residence the Finest Coach title bestowed by FIBA on the finish of the match.
Teresa Weatherspoon, Vinyl BC
The listing is rounded out by, you guessed it, Liberty illustration, as one of many franchise’s authentic stars is again for one more go at it after guiding Vinyl to a stunning look within the inaugural championship recreation. That journey took out the mighty Lunar Owls, as Weatherspoon earned candy vindication and redemption after her controversial firing from the helm of the Sky.
Retirement from a Corridor of Fame profession has been something however for Weatherspoon, who has additionally served on the helm of her alma mater, Louisiana Tech (she’s answerable for the Woman Techsters’ most up-to-date NCAA Match appearances in 2010-11), earlier than holding an assistant coach’s position with the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans for 3 years.
Geoff Magliocchetti is on X @GeoffJMags
