{"id":736311,"date":"2026-04-18T08:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/736311\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T08:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:26:20","slug":"former-wnba-draftee-takes-head-coaching-role-for-attica-girls-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/736311\/","title":{"rendered":"Former WNBA draftee takes head coaching role for Attica girls basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan Hanson, Lafayette Journal &amp; Courier<\/p>\n<p>Updated Sat, April 18, 2026 at 2:19 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>LAFAYETTE \u2014 One of the greatest post players in the history of Lafayette area girls basketball will now assume the head leadership role at a program which hasn&#8217;t carried a winning record in seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Fountain Central great Macee (Overman) Williams will be the head coach of Attica after spending three seasons as an assistant under former coach Dan Dawson.<\/p>\n<p>Overman was a standout who was voted Journal &amp; Courier Small Schools Player of the Year in 2017 after averaging \u00a026.7 points, 16.2 rebounds, 5.7 steals and 3.4 assists\u00a0during her senior year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>More: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jconline.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/2017\/03\/31\/small-school-all-area-mustang-goes-b-team-all-star\/99466018\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Small School All-Area: Mustang goes from B team to all-star;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Small School All-Area: Mustang goes from B team to all-star<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jconline.com\/story\/sports\/2025\/12\/15\/purdue-womens-basketball-indiana-high-school-basketball-maisie-overman-williams-teaching-math\/87722151007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:WNBA\/IUPUI star Macee (Overman) Williams&#039; new life as Attica math teacher;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">WNBA\/IUPUI star Macee (Overman) Williams&#8217; new life as Attica math teacher<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-2 power forward&#8217;s legacy grew at IUI (formerly IUPUI) and became the program&#8217;s all-time leader in points and rebounds. Overman was later selected in the third round of the WNBA Draft by the Phoenix Mercury in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Overman never played a game in the WNBA and returned to Indiana. Along with coaching, Overman serves as an Attica Elementary School sixth grade math teacher.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Attica Elementary School sixth grade math teacher and former Phoenix Mercury player Macee Overman takes in the action during a youth day for Purdue women's basketball against Lipscomb at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Ind. on Dec. 11, 2025.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"932\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/364092bd184156ade6506e18d66bf3d9.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Attica Elementary School sixth grade math teacher and former Phoenix Mercury player Macee Overman takes in the action during a youth day for Purdue women&#8217;s basketball against Lipscomb at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Ind. on Dec. 11, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Overman was known in her youth as starting on the Fountain Central &#8216;B&#8217; team during her eighth grade year before working and eventually rising to become an Indiana All-Star by her senior year.<\/p>\n<p>Ethan Hanson is the sports reporter for the Journal &amp; Courier in Lafayette. He can be reached at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/mailto:ehanson@jconline.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:ehanson@jconline.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ehanson@jconline.com<\/a>, on Twitter at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EthanAHanson_RS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:EthanAHanson;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">EthanAHanson<\/a>\u00a0and Instagram at\u00a0\u00a0ethan_a_hanson.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Lafayette Journal &amp; Courier: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jconline.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/2026\/04\/17\/indiana-high-school-basketball-attica-macee-overman-williams-wnba-coaching-hires-2026\/89670479007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Former WNBA player Macee Overman becomes Attica girls basketball coach;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Former WNBA player Macee Overman becomes Attica girls basketball coach<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethan Hanson, Lafayette Journal &amp; Courier Updated Sat, April 18, 2026 at 2:19 AM UTC LAFAYETTE \u2014 One&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":736312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[304110,304111,304109,34225,2862,304108,1502,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":["post-736311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-attica","tag-attica-elementary-school","tag-fountain-central","tag-head-coach","tag-indiana","tag-macee-overman-williams","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wnba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116424763100229148","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736311","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=736311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}