Here are the latest announcements and developments from around women’s basketball:
Fab four headlines WBHOF Class of 2025
During halftime of Friday evening’s game between No. 2 UConn and No. 14 North Carolina, the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2025 was revealed—and it’s a good one.
The quartet of Alanna Beard, Sue Bird, Sylvia Fowles and Cappie Pondexter will be inducted on June 14 at the Tennessee Theatre in Knoxville. Alongside the players, coaches Lucille Kyvallos, former head coach at West Chester State College in Pennsylvania and Queens College in New York, and Mark Campbell, former head coach at Union University in Tennessee, will be inducted, as will Danielle Donehew, the executive director of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association.
The resumes of Beard, Bird, Fowles and Pondexter are well known, and too long to list in detail. But, here’s a quick reminder of why the foursome is headed into the Hall:
Alana Beard
Winner of multiple national player of the honors as a senior at Duke, Beard was a member of the 2016 WNBA champion Los Angeles Sparks. Across a 14-year WNBA career with the Washington Mystics and Sparks, she was a two-time Defensive Player of the Year, nine-time All-Defensive honoree and four-time All-Star.
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