The women's basketball coach at the University of Windsor has made history.
Chantal Vallée has become the first woman in basketball history to be both the head coach and the general manager of a men’s professional team. She is also the second woman ever to be head coach of a men’s professional basketball team. Vallée has been named the first-ever head coach and general manager of the Hamilton Honey Badgers of the Canadian Elite Basketball League. The league begins play in 2019 in six cities across Canada.
Vallée is in her 14th year as head coach of the Lancers and will continue in that role. The team won a record five consecutive national championship titles from 2011-2015, and her teams made 11 straight trips to the provincial Final Four, earning nine consecutive medals. The Lancers only had four winning seasons in 45 years before she got here.
“I am honoured and excited to be taking on the challenge of serving as head coach and general manager of the Hamilton Honey Badgers in the first year of Canada’s new professional basketball league,” said Vallée. “We are at an unprecedented time of growth for basketball across Canada."
