Six extraordinary women were inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Saturday night: Cynthia Cooper-Dyke, Jill Hutchison, Ora Washington, Jennifer Gillom, Sonja Hogg and Jennifer Azzi. They combine for three Olympic gold medals, four WNBA Championships, five NCAA titles, and more than 100 years in the sport of basketball.
This photo of the inductees appeared in
Jennifer's blog. (The third woman is Brenda Hogue, Ora Washington's grand-niece, who represented her at the ceremonies. Washington died in 1971.)
Here is a formal photo at the induction ceremony from the WBHOF:
Knoxville TV station WBIR summarizes the inductees' accompishments in
this article. Accompanying the article is a video interview before the induction ceremony of Jennifer and her Oak Ridge High School basketball coach, Jill Prudden. This is a larger version of
the video clip.
Ann Killion (San Jose Mercury) wrote
this article about Jennifer that focussed on Jennifer's decision to attend Stanford and on how she and Tara brought each other success.
"Tara would have been successful without me at Stanford," Azzi said. "But I'm not sure of the reverse. I would have been pretty good, but it's unlikely that I would have truly reached my potential."
"Jennifer put Stanford basketball on the map," VanDerveer said. "She was the catalyst."
In another post to
her blog, Jennifer reminisces about her freshman year at Stanford and her dad's Christmas gift to her that painful year.
Candice earned her first WNBA Player of the Week award by leading the Minnesota Lynx to two victories last week, which helped them reclaim a share of first place in the Western conference.
Naomi Mulitauaopele and her husband, Solomona Tagaleo'o ...
... have a beautiful baby boy named Solomona Atapana Tagaleo'o Jr.
Jennifer has posted a lot of photos and video clips in her blog that document her induction into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.
In spite of Kristin's game-high 20 points, Turkey lost to Belarus in the final game of the qualifying round of the 2009 EuroBasket Women tournament. Worse — they lost by more than seven points.
Here is a formal photo at the induction ceremony from the WBHOF:
Knoxville TV station WBIR summarizes the inductees' accompishments in this article. Accompanying the article is a video interview before the induction ceremony of Jennifer and her Oak Ridge High School basketball coach, Jill Prudden. This is a larger version of the video clip.
Ann Killion (San Jose Mercury) wrote this article about Jennifer that focussed on Jennifer's decision to attend Stanford and on how she and Tara brought each other success.
"Tara would have been successful without me at Stanford," Azzi said. "But I'm not sure of the reverse. I would have been pretty good, but it's unlikely that I would have truly reached my potential."
"Jennifer put Stanford basketball on the map," VanDerveer said. "She was the catalyst."
In another post to her blog, Jennifer reminisces about her freshman year at Stanford and her dad's Christmas gift to her that painful year.
The Turkish National team won two of its three games in the preliminary round of EuroBasket Women:
Kristen Newlin is in Latvia with the Turkish National team, competing in the EuroBasket Women tournament for the European championship.
Latvia is in far northern Europe, about the same latitude as Sitka, Alaska. Kristen tweets that the long daylight hours are messin' her.
Brooke's hard work and good performance at training camp paid off. She begins her second season with the Phoenix Mercury on Saturday.
Katy Steding, member of Stanford's stellar 1990 team and the 1996 gold medal U.S. Olympic team, has joined the Ivy League as assistant coach at Columbia University.
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