For the third time in her career, [autotag]Kara Lawson[/autotag] won a gold medal at the Olympic Games on Sunday.
The United States took down France in the gold medal game by a single point, 67-66. Lawson, an assistant coach on the team, posted a selfie with her gold medal to X (the social media platform formerly known as Twitter) after the medal ceremony.
“Never gets old,” Lawson wrote in her caption. “Mission accomplished.”
Lawson also won a gold medal with Team USA as a player in 2008, and she became the fifth American woman in history to appear on the Olympic team as both a player and a coach. She also coached the U.S. women’s 3×3 basketball team at the most recent Olympics in Tokyo, another gold-medal-winning squad.
Three other Duke Blue Devils won gold on the Olympic basketball court this year. [autotag]Chelsea Gray[/autotag] played for Lawson on the women’s team, and [autotag]Jayson Tatum[/autotag] became the first Duke men’s basketball alum with multiple gold medals. You can even include Blue Devils legend Grant Hill, the managing director for Team USA on the men’s side.
Never gets old, mission accomplished‼️🇺🇸🥇 pic.twitter.com/V9orVmPwQO
— Kara Lawson (@karalawson20) August 11, 2024
Lawson returns to Durham for this fall’s Countdown to Craziness on October 4, the debut for her 2024-25 team.