The Ladies’s Basketball Corridor of Fame introduced its 12 finalists for the Class of 2022 induction into its Corridor of Fame.
The 12 finalists:
- Debbie Antonelli (Contributor)
- Alice “Cookie” Barron (Veteran Participant)
- Evelyn Blalock (Coach)
- Cathy Boswell (Participant)
- Doug Bruno (Coach)
- Becky Hammon (Participant)
- Donna Lopiano (Contributor)
- Lisa Mattingly (Official)
- DeLisha Milton-Jones (Participant)
- Paul Sanderford (Coach)
- Bob Schneider (Coach)
- Penny Taylor (Worldwide Participant)
The Class of 2022 might be chosen from the 12 finalists and introduced on February 14 through the Maryland at Iowa sport on ESPN2 (9:00 p.m. ET).
Bios of the finalists from the WBHOF:
DEBBIE ANTONELLI (Contributor)
- Coming into her thirty fourth school basketball season on air as a Basketball Analyst for a number of networks incomes two Emmy Awards and one Gracie Award for work in broadcasting basketball
- 2007 Mel Greenberg Media Award Winner
- 2021 Inductee into the North Carolina Sports activities Corridor of Fame
ALICE “COOKIE” BARRON (Veteran Participant)
- Performed for Wayland Baptist Flying Queens, main the staff to an undefeated report of 104-0 from 1954-1957.
- Helped information Wayland to a few Nationwide Championships en path to being named Wayland’s Excellent Girl Athlete in 1956-57.
- Helped information USA Basketball to the gold medal within the 1957 FIBA World Championships
EVELYN BLALOCK (Coach)
- Began the ladies’s basketball program at Kilgore Faculty, main them to a few NJCAA Championships (1988, 1990, 1993)
- Named the WBCA Junior Faculty Coach of the Yr in 1989 and 1990
- Inducted into the NJCAA Corridor of Fame
CATHY BOSWELL (Participant)
- Guided USA Basketball to the Gold Medal on the 1984 Olympics
- A two-time WBCA/Kodak All-American and two-time Wade Trophy finalist
- Performed for Illinois State College (1980-1983) ending her collegiate profession with 2,005 factors and 1,054 rebounds
DOUG BRUNO (Coach)
- Head coach for 36 years at DePaul College, guiding them to 24 NCAA Event appearances.
- Three-time Huge East Coach of the Yr (2014, 2016, 2017) and three-time WBCA Regional Coach of the Yr (2004, 2005, 2017).
- Six-time Gold Medalist Coach with USA Basketball.
BECKY HAMMON (Participant)
- Six-Time WNBA All-Star (2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011) and voted WNBA’s High 15 Gamers of All Time in 2011
- Performed for Colorado State (1995-1999) ending her profession as their all-time main scorer with 2,740 factors
- Named ESPNW Girl of the Yr in 2015
DONNA LOPIANO (Contributor)
- Chief Govt Officer of the Ladies’s Sports activities Basis from 1992 to 2007 being named to Fox Sports activities’ “The ten Most Highly effective Ladies in Sports activities” listing
- From 1975-1992, she was the Director of Ladies’s Athletics on the College of Texas at Austin, main them to 18 Nationwide Championship in 6 completely different sports activities
- Member of a number of Halls of Fame together with the Connecticut and Texas Ladies’s Halls of Fame
LISA MATTINGLY (Official)
- As an official for 33 years, she has officiated the NCAA Ladies’s Ultimate 4 Championship sport ten occasions (2001-2007, 2009, 2011, 2014) and the semifinals seven occasions (1999, 2000, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2018).
- Officiated the WNBA League Championship Collection from 2000 to 2007 and the WNBA League Finals from 2002 to 2006.
- Recipient of the 2002 Naismith Award for Excellent Official.
DELISHA MILTON-JONES (Participant)
- Two-Time Olympic Gold Medalist (2000, 2008)
- Two-time WNBA Champion with the Los Angeles Sparks (2001, 2002) and a three-time WNBA All-Star (2000, 2004, 2007)
- The 1997 Wade Trophy Recipient
PAUL SANDERFORD (Coach)
- 25 Seasons as a collegiate head coach with a profession report of 453-189 (.709).
- Led Western Kentucky to 12 NCAA Event appearances together with 3 Ladies’s Ultimate Fours and was the 1992 NCAA Division I Nationwide Runner-Up.
- Received a JUCO Nationwide Championship, was inducted into the NJCAA Corridor of Fame in 2000 and into the Western Kentucky College Athletic Corridor of Fame in 2008.
BOB SCHNEIDER (Coach)
- All-Time teaching report of 1,045-293 (.781), with solely 2 shedding seasons in 40 years.
- third all-time in NCAA Division II historical past with 634 victories.
- Throughout his 12 years at Canyon Excessive College (Canyon, TX), his groups received 5 state championships and completed runner-up 5 occasions.
PENNY TAYLOR (Worldwide Participant)
- Three-Time WNBA Champion (2007, 2009, 2014) and three-time WNBA All-Star (2002, 2007, 2011)
- Named to the 2007 All-WNBA First Group and 2011 All-WNBA Second Group
- Guided Australia Ladies’s Nationwide Basketball Group to 2 Olympic silver medals (2004, 2008)
The Ladies’s Basketball Corridor of Fame Board of Administrators serves as the choice committee in figuring out the people to be inducted annually. Voting is predicated on minimal candidate necessities, which embrace report of efficiency, nationwide or worldwide recognition, and contributions to the sport of ladies’s basketball.
