Lynette Woodard
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1998 | Detroit Shock | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2017–2020 | Winthrop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lynette Woodard (born August 12, 1959) is an American basketball player and former head women's basketball coach at Winthrop University.
Woodward played
Biography
Woodward led Wichita North High School to state basketball championships in 1975 and 1977. She scored 1,678 points and collected 1,030 rebounds in just 62 high school games in three seasons.[1]
Woodard went on to play college basketball with the
In 1981, she was signed by an Italian team, UFO Schio (Vicenza), to participate in their league.[4]
In 1984, she was a member of the United States women's basketball team that won the gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympic Games.
In 1985, Woodard became the first woman ever to play with the Globetrotters.
In 1989, she was inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame. In 1990, she was inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame,[6] and was signed by a Japanese women's team to play in their country. She played there until 1993.
In 1997, she was signed by the Cleveland Rockers of the newly founded Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The following year, she was selected in an expansion draft by the Detroit Shock. Woodard's final WNBA game ever was played on August 19, 1998, in a 82–68 win over the New York Liberty where she recorded 18 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals.[7] She was waived by the Shock on May 7, 1999. During the WNBA's off-season, she began working as a stockbroker in New York City.[citation needed]
She retired from playing in 1999 and returned to KU serving as assistant coach of the women's basketball team. In late January 2004, she was named interim head coach, filling for the regular coach Marian Washington, who had retired due to medical reasons. She also served as athletics director for the Kansas City, Missouri School District from 1992 to 1994.
In September 2004, she was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts.[8] In June 2005, she was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tennessee.[9]
Woodard also received the 2015
Woodard became a financial consultant for A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc., in Wichita.[12]
In 2017, she was named the head coach of the Winthrop Eagles women's basketball team.[13]
Kansas statistics
GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
Year | Team | GP | Points | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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1977-78 | Kansas | 33 | 833 | 49.7% | - | 66.4% | 14.8 | 2.1 | 25.2 | ||
1978-79 | Kansas | 38 | 1177 | 56.2% | - | 65.6% | 14.3 | 2.6 | 5.1 | 1.5 | 31.0 |
1979-80 | Kansas | 37 | 881 | 50.4% | - | 71.4% | 10.5 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 0.9 | 23.8 |
1980-81 | Kansas | 31 | 758 | 52.8% | - | 68.8% | 10.0 | 5.5 | 4.9 | 1.1 | 24.5 |
Career | 139 | 3649 | 52.5% | - | 68.1% | 12.5 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 0.9 | 26.3 |
USA Basketball
Woodard was named to the team representing the US at the 1979 World University Games, held in
Woodard was selected to be a member of the team representing the US at the 1980 Olympics, but the team did not go, due to the
Woodard was selected to be a member of the team representing the US at the 1983 Pan American Games held in
Woodard played for the USA National team in the 1983 World Championships, held in
Woodard was a member of the USA National team at the 1990 World Championships, held in
In 1984, the USA sent its National team to the 1984
Woodard played with the USA team at the
Awards and honors
- 1981: Winner of the Broderick Award (now the Honda Sports Award) for basketball[21][22]
- 1981: Wade Trophy[23]
- 2015: WBCBL Professional Basketball Trailblazer Award
- 2020: Brookwood Alpacas Elementary Award Kansas Stats
References
- ^ Lynette Woodard, Kansas State Hall of Fame website
- ^ Campbell, Dave (February 28, 2024). "Caitlin Clark's 33-point game puts her past Lynette Woodard for the major college scoring record". Associated Press. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
- ^ Porter 2005, pp. 518–519
- ^ "Schio Basket story, 81-82: arrivano le straniere". da Famila Schio News. December 27, 2013. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
- ^ Skaine 2001, p. 52
- ^ Woodard, Lynette - Inducted 1990 Archived May 4, 2015, at the Wayback Machine from the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame
- ^ "New York Liberty at Detroit Shock, August 19, 1998".
- ^ "Hall of Famers". Basketball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 1, 2009.
- ^ "WBHOF Inductees". WBHOF. Retrieved August 1, 2009.
- ^ "WBCBL to Honor 10 trailblazers in Women's Professional Basketball". WBCBL News. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
- ^ "Woodard and Garcia Honored as trailblazers in Women's Professional Basketball". WBCBL News. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
- ^ "Kansas basketball legends to lead Hoop Mountain's girl's programs". American City Business Journals. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
- ^ "Woodard named full-time Winthrop women's coach". heraldonline. Retrieved March 28, 2017.
- ^ "Tenth World University Games -- 1979". USA Basketball. Archived from the original on September 7, 2015. Retrieved October 13, 2015.
- ^ "Games of the XXIInd Olympiad -- 1980". USA Basketball. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved May 3, 2014.
- ^ "Ninth Pan American Games -- 1983". USA Basketball. June 10, 2010. Archived from the original on September 7, 2015. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
- ^ "Ninth World Championship For Women -- 1983". USA Basketball. June 10, 2010. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
- ^ "Eleventh World Championship -- 1990". USA Basketball. June 10, 2010. Archived from the original on October 20, 2015. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
- ^ "1984 WOMEN'S R. WILLIAM JONES CUP". USA Basketball. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved August 3, 2014.
- ^ "Eleventh Pan American Games -- 1991". USA Basketball. February 20, 2014. Archived from the original on September 7, 2015. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
- ^ "PAST HONDA SPORTS AWARD WINNERS FOR BASKETBALL". THE Collegiate Women Sports Awards Program. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
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- ^ "The Wade Trophy". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Retrieved June 30, 2014.
Sources
- Porter, David L., ed. (2005). Basketball: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-30952-6.
- Skaine, Rosemarie (2001). Women College Basketball Coaches. Foreword by Betty F. Jaynes. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-0920-4.
External links
- Basketball Hall of Fame biography
- 2015 Women's Blue Chip Basketball Trailblazers
- Lynette Woodard at FIBA
- Lynette Woodard international stats at Basketball-Reference.com
- Lynette Woodard at Olympedia
- Lynette Woodard at Olympics.com