The induction ceremony for the 2020 Class of the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame will be postponed until 2021 with no new entrants added to the class.
The Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame has announced that the 2020 Induction Ceremony, scheduled for June 13, 2020, has been postponed and will be rescheduled for June 12, 2021. Click below for more informationhttps://t.co/5hGkwPB06G pic.twitter.com/cm4RcjmXTo
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The Class includes Swin Cash, Tamika Catchings, Lauren Jackson, Debbie Brock, Carol Calan, Sue Donohoe and Carol Stiff. The 1980 U.S. Women’s Olympic Team will be the Trailblazer of the Game recipient.
Cash’s career spanned five teams – the Detroit Shock, Seattle Storm, Chicago Sky, Atlanta Dream and New York Liberty. She won three WNBA championships – two with the Shock and one with the Storm. She made four All-Star appearances and won two Olympic gold medals. She is now in the New Orleans Pelicans front office.
Catchings’ entire WNBA career was in Indiana with the Fever. In 2002, she was the Rookie of the Year and brought a WNBA title to the Hoosier State in 2012. She made 10 All-Star appearance and won four Olympic gold medals. Catch is now general manager of the Fever.
Jackson’s entire WNBA career also was with one team after being selected by the Storm first overall in the 2001 draft. She won two championships in Seattle. Jackson also won four WNBL MVP awards and four WNBL Grand Final MVPs. She participated on three silver medal-winning Australian Opals Olympic teams and now is the head of women for Basketball Australia.
Debbie Brock was a point guard at Delta State University that claimed three AIAW national championships. She also is part of the Delta State Sports Hall of Fame.
Callan is currently the national team director for USA Basketball and has served in that role since 1996. She has presided over six gold medal-winning efforts by Team USA dating back to the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
Sue Donohoe was the Vice President of NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball for nearly a decade. Prior to assuming that post, she was the director of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship from 2002 to 2003 and was the director of the Division I Women’s Basketball Championship from 1999 to 2002. She is also a member of the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
Stiff is ESPN’s Vice President for Programming and Acquisitions. Her primary forte is women’s sports – including the WNBA. She is a prior recipient of the WBCA Mel Greenberg Award. She is also credited with launching Jimmy V Week as well as the Kay Yow Cancer Fund and has helped in over $7 million in donations to that fund.
The USA Basketball Women’s National Team of 1980 will be recognized as the Trailblazers of the Game. That team includes:
Carol Blazejowski (Inducted in Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999)
Denise Curry (Inducted in Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999)
Anne Donovan (Inducted in Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999)
Tara Heiss (Inducted in Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003)
Kris Kirchner
Debra Miller
Cindy Noble Hauserman (Inducted in Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000)
LaTaunya Pollard (Inducted in Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001)
Jill Rankin Schneider (Inducted in Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008)
Rosie Walker (Inducted in Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001)
Holly Warlick (Inducted in Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001)
Lynette Woodard (Inducted in Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005)
Sue Gunter (coach, Inducted in Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000)
Pat Summitt (assistant coach, Inducted in Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999)
Betty Jo Graber (manager, Inducted in Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999)
