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 North East Digital VillageWomen AthletesVal Ackerman: In the fall of 1996, the WNBA announced Ackerman as its president and its tip-off plans for the inaugural season starting the following summer. READ MORE about the President of the WNBA as she shares her story of success. Sue Bird: Women's basketball's favorite imp and athlete! Former UCONN Husky where she was a member of NCAA Division I Championship Connecticut 2000 & 2002. Two-time All-American. 2002 Associated Press and Naismith Player of the Year. Recipient of the first annual Senior CLASS Award, presented to the nation’s most outstanding senior basketball player. Three-time Conseco/Nancy Lieberman-Cline National Point Guard of the Year Award winner. Sue Bird is currently playing with the Seattle Storm as a guard. Gold Medals: 2004 Olympics, 2002 FIBA World Championship, 2000 R. William Jones Cup. Bronze Medal: 2002 FIBA World Championship. WNBA Highlights: 2004 WNBA championship, 2002, 2003, 2004 All-WNBA first team, 2002, 2003 & 2005 All-Star Games, Western Conference All-Star starter in 2003, 2002 No. 1 draft pick. Babe Didrickson Zaharias: Multi-sport athlete who won three Olympic medals and 31 LPGA titles. Hall of Fame in track and field and in golf. Janet Dykman: Two-time US Olympic Archery Team Member (Photo) Chamique Holdsclaw: Helped to lead the Tennessee Lady Vols to the women's NCAA's first ever three consecutive Women's Basketball Championships in 1996, 1997 and 1998. Four time Kodak All-America. All-time leading scorer and rebounder at Tennessee in men's or women's history, the all-time leading scorer and rebounder in SEC women's history, and the all-time leading scorer and rebounder in the NCAA tournament women's history. In 1999, won the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States. Won the Naismith throphy for player of the year twice, in 1998 and 1999. In 2000, named Naismith's Player of the Century for the 1990's. Picked as one of the 5 greatest players in the SEC of the past 25 years. #1 pickof the 1999 WNBA Draft - selected by the Washington Mystics. Named the Rookie of the Year. Named as a WNBA All-Star and won a gold medal with the 2000 Olympic team. She is currently a forward for the Los Angeles Sparks. Anna Kozlova: won 17 national titles for synchronized swimming, including nine in the Olympic events (team and duet). (Photo), (Interview) Nancy Lieberman: Basketball player, coach, mother, two time Olympian, broadcaster and writer. Silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Two consecutive Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women National Championships (AIAW) (1979,1980). Two-time winner of the Wade Trophy. Broderick Award winner for basketball as the top women's player in America. Three consecutive Kodak All-America awards (1978,'79,'80). Lieberman played for the Dallas Diamonds, Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), and eventually the WABA, winning the 1984 WABA Championship and the league’s MVP award. In 1986, Lieberman became the first women ever to play in a men's league (USBL)- United States Basketball League's Springfield Fame and with the Washington Generals. Lieberman was drafted in the inaugural season (1997) by the Women's National Basketball Association's (WNBA), playing for the Phoenix Mercury. In 1998, she was hired as General Manager and Head Coach of the WNBA's Detroit Shock. She has served as president of the Women's Sports Foundation. She was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 1996 and to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999. n 2004, she became the Head Coach for the Dallas Fury of the National Women's Basketball League (NWBL). The Nancy Lieberman Award is given each year to the best female point guard in Division I basketball. (Previous winners included Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, Temeka Johnson, and Ivory Latta.). She is now a full-time analyst with ESPN for men's and women's college basketball and both the men's (NBA) and women's (WNBA) National Basketball Association's development leagues. Denise Parker: Archery team bronze medal at the '88 Seoul Games and finished fifth in both the team and individual competitions at the '92 Games in Barcelona. (Photos) Karen Scavotto: Olympic Archery Team Bronze winner (Photo) Rachael Scdoris: Running the Iditarod Sandra Schmirler: the first person on a women's curling team to win a gold medal. At the age of 36, Sandra Schmirler died of cancer Regina, Saskatchewan. (Photo) Diana Taurasi: Women's basketball's favorite imp and athlete! Former UCONN Husky. Drafted in 2005 by the Phoenix Mercury, DT continues playing in Phoenix as a Guard. Gold Medals: 2004 Olympics, 2000 Junior World Championship Qualifying. Bronze Medals: 2006 FIBA World Championship, 2001 FIBA Junior World Championship. Honors: Awarded the 3-point shooter trophy at the 2006 World Championship, 2001 All-FIBA Junior World Championship Team, July 2001 USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Month. Alison Williamson: 2nd place at the Archery World Champs in France and Gold at the Cyprus Archery Grand Prix. She has represented Britain in Archery at 3 Olympic Games with distinction. (Photo) Women's Sports Foundation: Read about the notable challenges and accomplishments of female athletes. This section is under constant development. Please email your suggestions to village@nedv.net. Linking to a site is not intended to imply that either the North East Digital Village or Bizgrok, Inc endorses or guarantees the information on the linked site or any pages thereof. Linking a site to any NEDV or Bizgrok page does not imply, nor is it intended to imply endorsement by the linked party of NEDV or Bizgrok. |
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