Kara Lawson has always been a basketball trailblazer and now the Duke women's coach has a legit chance to lead USA to another gold medal.
She has already done it once.
Lawson guided the Americans to a 3-on-3 Olympic gold medal and could have the chance to lead the USA's 5-on-5 squad at the Los Angeles Games in three years. First up is coaching the U.S. AmeriCup team that begins play this weekend in Chile.
Coaching is something she wanted to do since she was a young girl growing up in Virginia. She just didn't know it would be for her country.
"I played for a long time, and, so I got into coaching a little bit later just because I had a long playing career, which is as a good excuse as any to get into coaching later," Lawson quipped during an interview with The Associated Press. "So I was always drawn to it. I just didn't know what my entry point was."