Two-time Olympic gold-medalist and former Tennessee star Nikki McCray-Penson has died. She was 51.
McCray-Penson was an assistant women’s basketball coach at Rutgers last season, and the school on Friday confirmed her death. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013.as an assistant at South Carolina from 2008-17 and was part of the Gamecocks’ first national championship in 2017. They were gold-medal teammates at the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney Olympics.
McCray-Penson played at Tennessee from 1991-95 under Hall of Fame coach Pat Summitt. The point guard was a two-time SEC Player of the Year and a two-time Kodak All-American during her junior and senior seasons for the Lady Vols. The team reached the Final Four in 1995, losing in the championship game to undefeated Connecticut.
McCray-Penson began her 16-year coaching career as an assistant at Western Kentucky for three seasons from 2006-08. After South Carolina won its NCAA title in 2017, she became the head coach at Old Dominion in 2017, going 24-6 in 2020.She spent one year at Mississippi State before stepping down for health reasons and returned as an assistant under coach Coquese Washington at Rutgers last season.
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