South Sudan’s first ever women’s basketball coach Lindsey Harding already has an impressive CV but she still has plenty she wants to achieve both on and off the court.

The 36-year-old is set to combine her job with South Sudan with her role as an assistant and player development coach with men’s NBA team the Sacramento Kings.

The former WNBA star is proud of the steps she has taken so far but insists attitudes towards women in basketball need to change even more.

“It’s not how basketball is embracing women, it’s how men are. They tend to be the ones in power making decisions,” she said.

“Time and time again women have to work twice as hard to prove they can do the same job a man can do.

“Stop putting us in a box. That way of thinking has to change and I have hope that it is, we see it happening.