{"id":518704,"date":"2026-01-15T20:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/518704\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:17:09","slug":"toronto-tempo-name-ciara-carl-brian-lankton-assistant-coaches-for-inaugural-wnba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/518704\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Tempo name Ciara Carl, Brian Lankton assistant coaches for inaugural WNBA season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Ciara Carl and Brian Lankton have been hired by the Toronto Tempo as assistant coaches, the WNBA team announced Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Carl and Lankton each bring over a decade of experience across the NBA, G-League, WNBA, and NCAA, and will report to Tempo head coach Sandy Brondello.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The team says the assistants will be involved in all aspects of team preparation and performance, including player development, advanced scouting and on-court strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Carl joins the Tempo from the Phoenix Mercury, where she served as an assistant coach and head video co-ordinator since 2023. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lankton most recently served as the head video co-ordinator and player development coach for the New York Liberty from 2023-2025, including during the team\u2019s 2024 WNBA championship season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto will play its inaugural WNBA season this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Ciara Carl and Brian Lankton have been hired by the Toronto Tempo as assistant coaches, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":518705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,76705,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-518704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-toronto-tempo","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115900962825566625","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}