Former Louisiana Tech and Baylor coach Sonja Hogg will be among the inductees in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame's 2009 class.
The class, announced Sunday during the WNBA game between the Connecticut Sun and the Washington Mystics, includes:
* Prairie View A&M coach, Olympic champion and former Southern California and WNBA star Cynthia Cooper-Dyke.
* Olympic champion and former Stanford Star Jennifer Azzi.
* Former Mississippi star and WNBA player Jennifer Gillom.
* Jill Hutchison, who coached Illinois State and was the first Women's Basketball Coaches Association president.
* Black Athletes Hall of Fame and the Temple University Sports Hall of Fame member Ora Washington, a basketball and tennis player who starred at center for the Philadelphia Tribunes for 18 years, losing only six games -- all to men's teams.
The class will be honored June 13 at the hall in Knoxville, Tenn.
SOCCERLONGTIME CLEMSON COACH DIES: Longtime Clemson coach Dr. I.M. Ibrahim died of a heart attack while playing golf Saturday in Seneca, S.C., the university said. He was 67.
Ibrahim was the university's first soccer coach and ran the program from 1967 until he retired in 1994. His teams won national championships in 1984 and 1987. His record was 388-102-31.
Ibrahim owned the Tiger Sports Shop in Clemson.
(The Associated Press)
FOOTBALLBLUE DEVILS VISIT MISSION: More than 100 players, coaches and staff from the Duke football program spent more than two hours visiting the children and families Sunday at the Durham Rescue Mission's Good Samaritan Inn on East Knox Street.
The event was organized by former All-ACC defensive lineman and current Duke assistant strength and conditioning coach Chris Combs.
(From Duke News Release)
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