Old Dominion University Women's Basketball

DeLisha Milton-Jones, a 2022 Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Inductee, a two-time Olympic gold medalist with a decorated professional career in the WNBA and overseas and former head coach at Pepperdine University, was announced as the new head coach of the Old Dominion women’s basketball program by Director of Athletics Dr. Camden Wood Selig on April 17, 2020. “I am very excited to announce DeLisha Milton-Jones as ODU’s new head women’s basketball coach,” said Selig. “DeLisha has experienced success at every level possible as a student-athlete, professional athlete, USA basketball team member and a coach. In addition, DeLisha has been a successful intercollegiate head women’s basketball coach, so she knows firsthand what the job entails. “Coach Milton-Jones had as good an interview with any committee I have ever witnessed. She will provide a seamless transition for a program on an upward trajectory towards national prominence. DeLisha will be an excellent role model for the young women in our program now and in the future. She will also connect instantly with all our women’s basketball constituents who make ODU women’s basketball the national brand that we are. I welcome DeLisha and her husband Roland to the Monarch family and cannot wait for the Hampton Roads community to get to know them both.” Milton-Jones was part of an eight-person class that was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame on June 11, 2022 in Knoxville, Tennessee. She became the second Monarch coac