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ALL-TIME WOMEN’S BASKETBALL LEGENDS
Georgia Schweitzer led Duke to four trips to the
NCAA Tournament, including two NCAA Final Four
appearances in a four-year career with the Blue
Devils…Schweitzer, a 2001 Kodak All-America
and a first-team USBWA All-America, led the Blue
Devils to ACC Championships in 2000 and 2001.
She helped lead Duke to an overall 111-25 record,
at the time the most wins by any Duke women’s
basketball player. She was named the 2001 ACC
Tournament MVP and was also the MVP of the
1999 NCAA East Regional Tournament. Schweitzer
became the first player in Duke history to record
1,500 points, 500 rebounds, 400 assists and 150
steals. She completed her collegiate career with
1,620 points, 533 rebounds, 428 steals and 171
steals/ Schweitzer was twice chosen first-team
All-ACC in 2000 and 2001. After graduating from
Duke with a degree in environmental science &
policy, she played for Minnesota of the WNBA from
2001 through 2003.
FLORIDA STATE – Christy Lawley (1990-94)
One of the most prolific long-range shooters in FSU
history, Christy Derlak lettered four times for the
Seminoles during the 1991 through 1994 seasons .
In her senior season she earned 2nd-team All-ACC
honors and was also named to the ACC Select Team.
A 1993 Special Mention All-America, she totaled
1,193 points in her 113-game FSU career and still
ranks 19th on the Seminoles’ all-time women’s
basketball scoring list. Derlak set a school record
for most three-point field goals in a game with
seven against Tennessee-Chattanooga on Nov. 26,
1993. Her career three-point field goal percentage
of .341 is still the 7th-best in Seminole history. She
helped the ‘Noles post a 61-53 record during her
four-year career…An excellent student, she was
named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll in 1992,
1993 and 1994 and was the first FSU women’s
basketball player to be awarded the prestigious
ACC Postgraduate Scholarship
GEORGIA TECH – Bernadette McGlade
(coach, 1981-88)
Former Georgia Tech head women’s basketball
coach and Associate Athletic Director Bernadette
McGlade becomes the first woman honored by the
Atlantic Coast Conference as a Women’s Basketball
Legend as both a player and a coach. McGlade,
who became the first-full-time women’s basketball
coach in Georgia Tech history in 1981, is being
honored for her coaching skills this year, but she
was previously honored in 2007 as a standout student-athlete
at North Carolina (1977-80). During
her eight seasons at the helm of the Georgia Tech
program she built a program from scratch. She
guided the Jackets to their first winning season, a
14-13 campaign in 1986-87 and to their first win
over a nationally ranked team, an 81-80 upset of
13th-ranked Maryland in 1988. In addition to serving
as head coach at Tech, she also undertook the
responsibility of overseeing 14 sports programs,
including the elevation of three sports from club
to Division 1 status. She served as the Tournament
Director for the 1993 NCAA Women’s Final
Four, the first Women’s Final Four which was an
advance sellout…She left Tech to become Assistant
Commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference in
1997 overseeing women’s basketball, then spent
nine years as Associate Commissioner working with
the ACC’s Olympic Sports Championships, Senior
Woman Administrators as well as ACC and NCAA
Committee oversight…She joined the Atlantic 10
conference as its fifth full-time commissioner in
2008
MARYLAND – Myra Waters (1978-82)
A standout for the Terrapins from 1978-79 through
1981-82, Waters was one of Maryland’s most reliable
offensive threats. A 5-10 forward out of Toledo,
Ohio, Waters averaged 13.0 points for her career
and shot 54 percent from the field. She ranks 14th
on the Terrapins’ career scoring list with 1,423
points, seventh on the Terps’ career rebounding
list with 782 and fifth in career steals with 241.
During her four seasons in College Park, she helped
lead the Terrapins to an overall 87-32 record which
includes ACC championships in 1979, 1981 and
1982. She was named to the ACC All-Tournament
team in 1980. The Terrapins earned an AIAW or
NCAA Tournament berth in each of her varsity
seasons, with Maryland reaching the Elite Eight
three times and advanced to the first NCAA Final
Four in her senior year. In each of her years with
the Terrapins, Maryland finished ranked nationally
no lower than 8th and was ranked 3rd nationally
in her senior season.
MIAMI – Tamara James (2002-06)
The all-time leading scorer in women’s basketball
for the Miami Hurricanes, Tamara James set a
scoring record for men and women in her fouryear
career at the “U” with 2,406 points. James
was named first-team All-ACC in 2005 and 2006
and first-team All-Big East in 2004. She led the
ACC in scoring both years averaging 22.3 in 2005
and 21.5 in 2006. She became the first freshman
to lead the Big East in scoring in 2003 and was a
first-team All-Big East selection as a sophomore in
2004 and was a second-team All-Big East honoree
as a freshman in 2003. James helped lead the
Hurricanes to a four-year record of 70-47 and,
led the Hurricanes to a berth in the NCAA (2005)
and the WNIT (2006) in her last two seasons. She
earned Honorable Mention All-America honors
in 2003 from AP and Kodak, and in 2006 was a
second team All-America pick by the Women’s
Basketball News Service and a 3rd team section
by Full Court Press.
NORTH CAROLINA – Sylvia Crawley (1990-94)
One of the best defensive players in North Carolina
women’s basketball history, Sylvia Crawley was
the captain and leader of UNC’s 1994 National
Championship team. She was also named MVP
of the 1994 National Champions and her jersey
“00” is honored in the Carmichael Arena rafters.
She scored 1,158 points in her career and grabbed
582 rebounds. She was named to the 1994 NCAA
All-East Region team and to the 1994 All-ACC
Tournament team as well. She still ranks 6th
on North Carolina’s career list for blocked shots
(123) and is 9th in career field goal percentage
(.514). During her four-year career at UNC, she
helped lead the Tar Heels to a 90-34 record and
three NCAA Tournament appearances, including
a 33-2 mark in 1994. Named to the ACC’s 50th
Anniversary women’s basketball team in 2003,
she was named USA Basketball’s 1995 Female
Athlete of the Year. She was named an alternate for
the 1996 U.S. Olympic team and represented the
U.S. internationally as part of the Pan Am Games
in 1995 and 1999, the World University Games in
1995, the U.S. Select team in 1994 and the Jones
Cup Team in 1996.
NC STATE – Rhonda Mapp (1989-92)
A dominant low-post player, Rhonda Mapp was
named to the first-team All-ACC squad in 1991 and
1992. Mapp helped lead the Wolfpack to a threeyear
record of 67-25 as well as NCAA Tournament
appearances in 1989 and 1991. In 1991 she helped
lead the Wolfpack to win the ACC Championship
and was named to the all-tournament first team
and shot 57.6 percent for the season. That season,
State finished with a No. 7 final national ranking
by the Associated Press and 10th by USA Today.
In her final season in 1992, Mapp led the ACC in
scoring (22.0) and rebounding (9.8) and finished
her collegiate career with 1,553 points, which still
ranks 10th on the Wolfpack career scoring list.
Mapp played five seasons professionally in the
WNBA with the Charlotte Sting (1997-99) and Los
Angeles Sparks (2001, 2003).
VIRGINIA – Siedah Williams (2003-07)
A four-year letter-winner and the team captain
during her junior (2006) and senior (2007) seasons,
Siedah Williams was a three-time recipient
of Virginia’s Unsung Hero Award. She helped lead
the Cavaliers to a four-year record of 73-54, which
included an invitation to the NCAA Tournament in
2005 and bids to the WNIT in 2006 and 2007. She
started 30 of Virginia’s 32 games in 2007, averaging
9.7 points and 7.2 rebounds a game while
leading the team in blocked shots with 22. She led
Virginia in scoring in 2006 as a junior (11.8) and in
field goal percentage in both her junior and senior
seasons. She finished her career as the 23rd UVa
women’s player to top 1,000 points for a career,
totaling 1,053.
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