Lindsay Whalen, Carolyn Peck prime ladies’s hoops HOF class

Former Minnesota Lynx star Lindsay Whalen and ESPN analyst Carolyn Peck, the primary Black head coach to win the NCAA ladies’s basketball match, are amongst 5 ladies who shall be inducted subsequent yr into the Ladies’s Basketball Corridor of Fame, it was introduced Sunday.

The induction shall be April 29 on the corridor in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Whalen, who was inducted into the Naismith Corridor of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, in September, led Minnesota to the 2004 ladies’s Ultimate 4 and is now head ladies’s basketball coach at her alma mater. She gained two Olympic gold medals with Staff USA.

Whalen helped lead the Lynx to 4 WNBA titles and in addition led the Connecticut Solar to the 2004 and 2005 WNBA Finals.

Peck led Purdue to the 1999 NCAA title, a breakthrough achievement for Black head coaches within the ladies’s recreation. Peck, who performed collegiately at Vanderbilt, additionally has been a head coach within the WNBA and for the Florida Gators, together with being a collegiate assistant at Tennessee, Kentucky, Purdue and her alma mater.

Peck is a longtime commentator and analyst for girls’s faculty basketball and the WNBA for ESPN.

The opposite inductees are Illinois State standout and 1984 Olympic gold medalist Cathy Boswell, former Texas ladies’s athletic director Donna Lopiano and longtime collegiate and WNBA referee Lisa Mattingly.

Lopiano was director of the Ladies’s Sports activities Basis from 1992 to 2007, after being an administrator at Texas from 1975 to 1992. Ladies’s groups gained 18 nationwide championships in six totally different sports activities at Texas throughout her time there.

Mattingly officiated for 38 years, together with in 10 NCAA ladies’s championship video games and 5 WNBA Finals.

The Ladies’s Basketball Corridor of Fame additionally introduced its recipient for the Trailblazers of the Recreation Award, which can go to the Ladies’s Basketball Coaches Affiliation (WBCA).