After a hurricane, coach Tynesha Lewis leaned on a bond built at Black colleges

By Mia Berry When Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina in September, floods left UNC Asheville’s campus without power and potable water, displacing the women’s basketball team a month before the start of its season. As first-year coach Tynesha Lewis mulled how to move forward, a fellow coach in the women’s basketball community proposed a solution. After hearing about the devastation the hurricane caused in the Asheville community, Tomekia Reed, the first-year coach at UNC Charlotte, reached out to Lewis to offer her help. Reed and Lewis, who both previously led winning women’s basketball programs at historically Black universities, met in 2022 at a symposium The post After a hurricane, coach Tynesha Lewis leaned on a bond built at Black colleges appeared first on HBCU News.