Becky Hammon

Categories: Class of 2022

Hammon graduated and played for Colorado State Rams (1995 -1999), where she was a three-time All-American basketball player, has been inducted into the Rams Athletics Hall of Fame, and where her No. 25 jersey was retired
Received the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award, named the Western Athletic Conference’s (WAC) all-time leading scorer and named the WAC Mountain Division Player of the Year (1998-99)
Played for the New York Liberty (1999-2006), where she led the WNBA in scoring in 2003 and inducted into the New York Liberty’s Ring of Honor (2015)
On April 4, 2007, she was traded to the WNBA’s San Antonio Silver Stars, where she posted career-high averages of 18.8ppg (fourth best) and 5.0apg in 2007. She led the league in assists that year
Helped lead the Silver Stars to a WNBA best record (24-10) and into the playoff for a second straight year; Hammon scored two 30 or more-point games during the Stars play-off run, and finished the season competing in the WNBA Finals
On June 25, 2016, the San Antonio Stars retired Hammon’s No. 25 jersey
A six-time WNBA All-Star (2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, and 2011) and became the seventh player in WNBA history to score 5,000 points.
Two-time All-WNBA First Team (2007, 2009) and a two-time All-WNBA Second Team (2005, 2008)
In 2011 named one of the WNBA’s Top 15 Players of All-Time
Competed in the Olympics two times for Russia, both in 2008 (Bronze) and 2012
Hammon was named the ESPNW Woman of the Year in 2014
Began her coaching career, as the Assistant Coach for the NBA’s Spurs in 2014
The 2015 NBA Summer league coach for the Spurs, who won the summer league title
2016 NBA All-Star Game coaching staff
Hammon retired from playing in 2014 and is currently in her first year as Head Coach for the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces