Quinn out as coach of Storm after playoff loss

The Seattle Storm announced connected Sunday that Noelle Quinn volition not instrumentality arsenic coach, days aft the franchise mislaid successful the archetypal circular of the WNBA playoffs.

The Storm lost successful a decisive Game 3 to Las Vegas connected Thursday aft finishing seventh successful the standings successful the regular season.

"On behalf of our organization, I would similar to convey Noelle for her clip with the Storm. Her committedness to the ongoing occurrence of our enactment and to furthering the improvement of our players was 2nd to none," Storm wide manager Talisa Rhea said. "She enactment america successful a presumption to triumph astatine the highest levels of the crippled and for that, we are grateful."

Quinn was the lone Black pistillate caput manager successful the WNBA this season. Teresa Weatherspoon (Chicago) and Tanisha Wright (Atlanta) were some fired astatine the extremity of the 2024 season.

Her unit was nether probe past play into allegations of workplace argumentation violations by the coaching staff. The Storm hired extracurricular counsel and they recovered nary argumentation violations.

She started her Storm vocation arsenic a subordinate successful 2013 and continued her tenure from 2016-2018, including being portion of the 2018 WNBA title team.

Once she retired, Quinn became an adjunct manager with the squad successful 2019. She was an subordinate caput manager for the franchise successful 2020 erstwhile the Storm won their 4th WNBA championship. She took implicit arsenic Seattle's caput manager successful 2021.

She finished with the second-most wins of immoderate manager successful Seattle franchise past ending her tenure with a 97-89 record.