Ohemaa Nyanin
Basketball Executive
Ohemaa Nyanin is a Ghanaian-American basketball executive, and the first ever General Manager of the WNBA's 2024 Expansion team the Golden State Valkyries.[1] She oversees basketball operations including hiring the coach, building the team, and player development. [2]
Prior to being tapped to lead the WNBA's first new team since 2008, Nyanin spent five years with the New York Liberty as Director of Basketball Operations and then Assistant General Manager.[3] [4] She is widely cited as having been instrumental to recruiting Breanna Stewart, Courtney Vandersloot, and Jonquel Jones for the NY Liberty's 2023 season.[5]
In the four years leading the Women's Basketball program at USA basketball prior to the 2016 Olympic Games, Ohemaa Nyanin got to know future WNBA stars when they were teenagers in the USA Basketball youth development program [6][7]
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- ^ "Liberty's Ohemaa Nyanin Named WNBA Golden State GM". New York Knicks On SI. 2024-05-06. Retrieved 2024-10-14.
- ^ "WNBA Golden State names Ohemaa Nyanin GM". www.sportsbusinessjournal.com. 2024-05-06. Retrieved 2024-10-14.
- ^ "WNBA's Golden State franchise names Nyanin GM". ESPN.com. 2024-05-06. Retrieved 2024-10-14.
- ^ Powell, Jackie (2023-07-18). "Ohemaa Nyanin is the New York Liberty's 'Ms. Make-it-Happen'". The Next. Retrieved 2024-10-14.