She'd always be going down rabbit holes of film or talking about different game situations in the office, constantly staying ready. Robinson-Griggs said being prepared was always one of Raman's core values. Let’s find those clips and let’s look at it, just in case they throw it out again.’" “She’s looking back at, ‘Hey, two years ago, they were in this endgame scenario. “It’s never just enough to watch maybe the last couple of games of an opponent. She said that Raman's basketball IQ and drive to learn are immeasurable. Lucia Robinson-Griggs, the head women’s basketball coach at Vassar College, served on Raman’s staff at MIT for eight years. But she brought an almost academic attention to detail that matched the institution.
Even after Raman started, her teams didn’t have a winning season until the 2015-16 campaign. When Raman arrived on MIT’s campus in 2008, she inherited an Engineers program not known for success.
But she’s also making a bit of history: She is the first woman of Indian descent to coach in the NBA.īut talk to anyone who knows her and it becomes clear why Memphis would hire a coach from a Division III school that’s far more likely to produce Nobel Laureates than first-round draft picks. Raman joins a number of coaches with Division III experience and a steady wave of women coaching in the league. Raman’s jump from MIT to NBA comes as the league broadens who it welcomes into its coaching ranks. “I don’t think as a Division III women’s basketball player you expect your coach to tell you that she’s resigning to go coach in the NBA.” And there was certainly just complete shock,” she said.
“So I couldn’t really hear their reactions, but I could see their faces. And not just because they had muted themselves. When she told her players at MIT she was taking the job, you could hear a pin drop over Zoom. Then Raman received a job offer from the Memphis Grizzlies, who announced her hiring in September. The all-time winningest coach for MIT women’s basketball, she had built a home in Cambridge over 12 years, a home she had no intention of leaving. Sonia Raman wasn’t planning on moving across the country during a pandemic.
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