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Alexa PhilippouOct 22, 2025, 06:41 PM ET
- Covers women's assemblage hoops and the WNBA
- Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant
- Stanford postgraduate and Baltimore autochthonal with further acquisition astatine the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer
Sandy Brondello has agreed to go the archetypal caput manager of the enlargement Toronto Tempo, a root confirmed to ESPN.
The squad is expected to marque the announcement successful the coming days erstwhile a declaration is finalized.
Brondello yielded important involvement from aggregate different organizations earlier choosing Toronto, which is acceptable to statesman play successful 2026 alongside different caller squad successful the Portland Fire.
The Tempo volition big games astatine the Coca Cola Coliseum successful Toronto, portion besides playing 2 regular-season games successful Montreal and 2 successful Vancouver.
Brondello has a storied past successful the league, earning an All-Star enactment arsenic a subordinate successful 1999 and starring the Phoenix Mercury and New York Liberty to WNBA titles arsenic a manager successful 2014 and 2024, respectively. Her declaration with the Liberty was not renewed aft their first-round playoff exit this past season.
Brondello has besides been the person of the Australian Opals nationalist team, astir precocious starring the squad to a bronze medal astatine the 2024 Paris Olympics.
With the Tempo's head-coaching occupation filled, the Dallas Wings, Seattle Storm and Liberty are the lone openings inactive remaining.
The IX Basketball was archetypal to study Brondello's hiring by the Tempo.
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