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DeLisha Milton-Jones is taking over as Old Dominion's new women's basketball coach, the school announced. She is replacing her former USA Basketball teammate Nikki McCray-Penson, who went to Mississippi State. Milton-Jones comes from Syracuse, where she was an assistant this past season to Quentin Hillsman. Before that, she was head coach at Pepperdine from 2017 to 2019. She spent the 2016 season as an assistant with the Waves. Pepperdine was 10-20 in her first season as head coach, then improved to 22-12. She will take over an Old Dominion team that was 24-6 overall this season and 14-4 in Conference USA. Milton-Jones, 45, was the Wade Trophy winner and SEC player of the year as a senior at Florida in 1997. She then played 17 seasons in the WNBA, finishing her career in 2015. She spent 11 seasons of her WNBA career with the Los Angeles Sparks, with whom she won league titles in 2001 and '02. She also played extensively overseas. Milton-Jones won Olympic gold medals with the U.S. team in 2000, when she was teammates with McCray-Penson, and 2008. She also won two gold medals in the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, in 1998 and 2002, and a bronze in 2006.
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