Kara Lawson

What grabs me about Kara Lawson is not just the playing resume but the arc of it. A shooting guard who lived and died by scoring decisions, she now coaches Duke's women and the U.S. national team, which is a far harder kind of pressure. Winning a sportsmanship award tells me she carried herself with grace even in a cutthroat sport, and that quality usually translates into the kind of coach players actually want to play for. I find people who can both compete ruthlessly and then teach generously genuinely rare. Lawson's second act interests me more than her first.

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Name (English)

Kara Lawson

Name (Japanese)

カーラ・ローソン

Reading

かーら・ろーそん

Born

February 14, 1981 (age 45)

Origin

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Height

175 cm

Occupation

basketball player / basketball coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rooster

High school

West Springfield High School

University

University of Tennessee

Awards & achievements

• Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award
• Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara%20Lawson
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q459016

Tags

• Virginia
• basketball player
• basketball coach

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.