Former University of Tennessee women’s basketball player Kara Lawson helped the United States win a gold medal in the Olympics.
Lawson, who played for the Lady Vols under head coach Pat Summitt, served as Team USA’ s 3×3 women’s basketball team’s head coach in the Tokyo Olympics.
The United States won two games on the final day of competition and claimed a gold medal with an 18-15 victory over the Russian Olympic Committee.
Team USA also won its semifinal game, defeating France 18-16. Team USA finished with an 8-1 record, losing to Japan in the final round of pool play.
Lawson won an Olympic gold medal as a player for the United States in 2008.
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