(Photo credit: Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images)Duke head coach Kara Lawson was named to lead the U.S. women's basketball team on Monday. A gold medalist as a player in 2008 and an assistant coach on the championship team in 2024, Lawson will look to complete the Olympic trifecta at the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles. 'To win a gold medal as a player was amazing, and one of the earliest goals that I set out when I was young,' Lawson told ESPN. I would argue in any sport, it's the hardest roster to make. But this might be the hardest of the hardest roster to make.