{"id":706981,"date":"2026-04-10T00:21:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/706981\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T00:21:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:21:36","slug":"ucf-introduces-head-womens-basketball-coach-gabe-lazo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/706981\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF introduces head women\u2019s basketball coach Gabe Lazo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UCF introduced Gabe Lazo as the 14th women\u2019s basketball head coach in program history at a press conference Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Miami native spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach at Tennessee. He has also made assistant coaching stops at Mississippi State, George Washington, Stony Brook and FIU.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Lazo is set to enter his 10th season coaching women\u2019s college basketball.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UCF introduced Gabe Lazo as the 14th women\u2019s basketball head coach in program history at a press conference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[3386,7,57002,6122,88467,6119,8544,7716,12586,8858,6112],"class_list":{"0":"post-706981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-assistant-coach","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-gabe-lazo","11":"tag-george-washington","12":"tag-miami-native","13":"tag-mississippi-state","14":"tag-press-conference","15":"tag-program-history","16":"tag-ucf","17":"tag-ucf-knights","18":"tag-womens-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116377558389267078","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}