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Sue Donohoe

Categories: Class of 2021
  • Vice President of NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball (2003-2011). She directed the operational and strategic oversight for Division I women’s basketball and the Division I Women’s Basketball Championship.
  • Graduate Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach at Louisiana Tech University, where she helped them win the NCAA National Championship (1982)
  • Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach at Stephen F. Austin State University and then at the University of Arkansas (1991, 1992, 1993)
  • Assistant Commissioner of the Southland Conference (1996, 1997, 1998) and then transitioned to the Associate Commissioner of the Conference.
  • Donohoe was the Executive Director of the Kay Yow Cancer Fund (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
  • Spearheaded an effort for people to better understand the NCAA selection process through creating a mock selection weekend, which involved media, administration, and former coaches (2008)
  • Named by The Chronicle of Higher Education as one of the “Top 10 Most Powerful People in College Sports.” (2008)
  • U.S. Basketball Writer’s Mary Joe Haverbeck Award for commitment and service to women’s college basketball (2015)
  • First woman to receive the Dave Dixon Louisiana Sports Leadership Awarded presented by the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame (2017)
  • Currently, she is a Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame Board of Directors member and has served as vice president, president, past president, and screening committee chair.
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