You Let Some Girl Beat You? (28 page)

Read You Let Some Girl Beat You? Online

Authors: Ann Meyers Drysdale

Halls of Fame and Awards/Honors

-1975 - '76-'77-'78 First 4X All America (male or female) in College Basketball

-1976 - Olympic Silver Medal Winner – Started with the First Olympic US Women's Basketball Team

-1975 - Part of UCLA's National Championship Team in Track and Field

-1977 - '78-'79 Won AAU Championships with Anna's Bananas

-1978 - Part of UCLA's National Championship Team in Basketball

-1978 - Broderick Cup Winner for Basketball (Player of the Year)

-1978 - Broderick Cup Overall Winner

-1978 - UCLA's Athlete of the Year

-1978 - '79- #1 Overall pick in the WBL

-1979 - '80- Co-MVP of the WBL

-1979 - First -and Still Only- Woman to have a tryout in the NBA (Pacers) as a Free Agent

-1981 - Cincinnati Hall of Fame

-1981 - '82-'82- First Place in Women's Superstars Competition

-1981 - First and Only Woman Ever Invited to Compete in the Men's Superstars

-1985 - International Women's Sports Foundation Hall of Fame (First Team Sport Athlete to be Inducted)

-1986 - Orange County Sports Hall of Fame

-1988 - UCLA Hall of Fame (First Woman to be Inducted)

-1993 - Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

-1994 - Catholic Youth Organization Hall of Fame

-1995 - National High School Federation Hall of Fame

-1999 - Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

-1999 – Mel Greenberg Media Award

-2001 - Wooden All Time All American

-2002 - Southern California Sportscaster “Good Guy” Award

-2003 - NCAA Silver Anniversary Award

-2006 - Ronald Reagan Media Award

-2006 - California Sports Hall of Fame

-2007 - FIBA Hall of Fame -First American Woman and one of the first three Americans to be inducted (along with Bill Russell and Dean Smith)

-2007 & 2009 - General Manager of the WNBA Champion Phoenix Mercury

-2010 - Named “Top Business Woman” by Phoenix Business Journal

-2011 - YWCA's “Sports Leader of the Year” Award

-2012 - USBWA Named “National College Player of the Year Award” in honor of Ann Meyers Drysdale

Other books

Circle of Deception by Swafford, Carla
Destiny's Daughter by Langan, Ruth Ryan
Code Name: Baby by Christina Skye