Raptors make data analyst Brittni Donaldson the NBA’s 10th female assistant coach

The Toronto Raptors continue to make significant changes to their coaching staff.

The team announced this week that Brittni Donaldson has been promoted to a role in head coach Nick Nurse’s coaching staff.

The move makes the 26-year old the 10th female assistant coach in the NBA, and among the youngest in the league.

Donaldson was initially hired by president Masai Ujiri during the summer of 2017. She has spent the past two seasons as the team’s data analyst, playing a part in their title run this past postseason.

Like Nurse, she played basketball at the University of Northern Iowa, and earned her way to the top from hard work.

The news comes just a day after they hired British Basketball League coachFab Flournoy as a player development assistant.