Jody Wynn

Jody Wynn was a prep standout in high school in Southern California. She played under the current University of Southern California women's coach, Mark Trakh. She earned the CIF-Southern Section and Orange County Player of the Year honors in 1991 and 1992. She was also tabbed a USA Today and Street & Smith's Honorable-Mention All-American.[3]

Wynn played Forward and was a four-year starter on the varsity squad. She scored 16 points per game as a senior. In her four years, the team had a 129–6 record and won three California state championships.[4]

Wynn graduated from the University of Southern California in 1996, earning her Bachelor's degree in Exercise Science. In 2000, she completed a Master's degree in Education at Pepperdine University.

During her collegiate playing career (1993–96), the USC Trojans earned a cumulative record of 79-35 (.693). This team, which was headlined by notable WNBA players Lisa Leslie and Tina Thompson, won the 1994 Pac-10 Conference Championship.

The Trojans made three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances from 1993 to 1995. During this time, Wynn played under three head coaches – Marianne Stanley (1993), Cheryl Miller (1994–95) and Fred Williams (1996) – in a four-year span. Wynn's best statistical season was during her junior year, where she started in 27 games and averaged 8.2 points, 5.0 rebounds, and 3.0 assists per contest.[1] Her senior year at USC was cut short by a career-ending ankle surgery.[5]

On April 7, 2009, Wynn was named Head Coach of the Long Beach State Women's Basketball program.[6] On April 14, 2017, she was named Head Coach of the Washington Women's Basketball program.[7]

In 2000, Jody married Derek Wynn.[5] They have two daughters who swam competitively and now play basketball. Before taking up basketball, Wynn, a fourth-generation Californian, was a nationally-ranked age-group swimmer. Wynn also competed on one of the first all-girl's water polo teams believed ever to have been formed, and was also a championship-level open-water swimmer who competed in several long-distance, ocean-series events.

Sports forged an early common bond among Wynn's immediate family. Her father, a retired securities executive, played football at Occidental College under the legendary NFL coach, Jim Mora. Her mother, a fashion model and a retired teacher, was a U.S. Women's Amateur Golf champion and played at the University of California, Los Angeles under the guidance of Eddie Merrins, the longtime pro at Bel-Air Country Club. Her brother set ocean swimming records in addition to college swimming records as a freestyle swimmer at Duke University, and soon thereafter covered a sports-related matter as a field producer for the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw: the famed O.J. Simpson Criminal Trial, where he occupied the courtroom seat issued to the network inside the Honorable Lance A. Ito's courtroom while reporting directly to the late assignment correspondent (later Chief White House Correspondent and Weekend Today co-anchor) David Bloom, who lead the Simpson coverage, as well as the ratings, for the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw.[5]