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QUEEN OF THE COURT

THE PLAN WAS TO become an attorney. For Rutgers’ new women’s head coach Coquese Washington, her objective was to play hoops for Notre Dame, and then attend their law school. But, court ambitions of a different sort led her to a distinguished WNBA playing career, and eventually into coaching.

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