Former National Player of the Year and two-time consensus first-team All-America guard Ivory Latta has joined the University of North Carolina women’s basketball staff as an assistant coach, head coach Sylvia Hatchell announced Friday. Latta, who led Carolina to back-to-back Women’s Final Fours and was the 2006 National Player of the Year, replaces Trisha Stafford-Odom.

Latta, who will continue her professional playing career with the WNBA’s Washington Mystics, returns to her alma mater after six years away from Chapel Hill.

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