Sandy Brondello becomes the first coach of the Toronto Tempo
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With the fire in Portland, Weather in Toronto is another team to discover WNBA during the 2026 season. If in recent days the future Oregon franchise has found its coach in the person of Alex Saramaa position in Canada has just found a candidate.
According to ESPNIt is Sandy Brondello who will take over the Tempo reins and will have the tough task of doing the same as Natalie Nakase did with the Valkyries by leading the Canadian team to the playoffs in her first season.
With the selection of Sandy Brondel, Toronto confirms its desire to create a team composed of people who already have solid experience in the WNBA. In January, Monica Wright Rogers became the team’s general manager after serving as assistant general manager at Mercury, where she had been since January 2023.
Storm, Wings and Freedom are still searching
Sandi Brondello has always been Tempo’s priority ever since the end of his adventure with Liberty last September, after New York’s elimination against Phoenix in the first round of the playoffs. So Toronto was recovering one of the most experienced coaches in the WNBA because Sandy Brondello had already led two teams to the title, the Phoenix Mercury in 2014 and the New York Liberty in 2024.
As of now, only three teams remain without a coach: A stormTHE Wings and the Liberty. Storm and Wings were interested in Sandy Brondello, but that lead is now flying out the window. Seattle could focus on Sonia Raman who was Sandy Brondell’s assistant in New York.
For Dallas, the list of candidates has been much broader since then Athletics report that the Wings front office is looking at profiles coming from college, the WNBA or even the NBA, such as Dave Georger who served with the Sacramento Kings between 2016 and 2019.
Finally, among the candidates to succeed Sandy Brondel in New York, we find Will Weaver passed through the bench of Paris Basket, but also Christy Tolliverassistant to Nate Tibbetts on the Phoenix side.
2025-10-23 09:45:00
