When the New Orleans Pelicans offered Swin Cash an opportunity to join their front office, she wasn’t completely sure if she should accept. The former WNBA All-Star and Olympian felt comfortable working as the director of franchise development for the New York Liberty, as well as a studio analyst for MSG Networks, and her family was settled.
Ultimately Cash decided to do it for the women behind her—who all dream of working in front offices for major professional sports teams that are typically dominated by men.
“I was going to take a position to make sure that the door stayed open. That was important to me,” Cash said. “This should be a revolving door. Too many times, people think about women, we get a position, and there can only be one.”
And for Cash, once she made it to New Orleans, kept her word and made sure that the revolving door continued to turn for the women behind her. Teresa Weatherspoon, a former WNBA player and Naismith Hall of Famer, joined the team shortly after Cash as a two-way player development coach and was promoted to full-time assistant coach a little more than a year later.
Cash, a two-time NCAA national champion with the University of Connecticut, three-time WNBA champion and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, spoke to veteran broadcaster Monica McNutt to have an honest conversation about being a Black woman in sports.