Class of 2011 – Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

Lometa Odom

In four seasons with the Wayland Baptist Flying Queens, she complied a record of 115-5
First Wayland Baptist player to pick up four consecutive AAU All-American Honors
She was named the 1956 AAU Tournament MVP and finished her career with 1,614 points
Inducted into the Wayland Baptist University Athletic Hall of Honor in 1992
In high school, she led her team to three state titles from 1950-1952, setting the Texas single game scoring record with 78 points in 1951
She collected Texas All-State honors three years in a row (1950-1952)
The first woman inducted into the Texas High School Basketball Hall of Fame and the Texas Panhandle Sports Hall of Fame
In 2000 she was recognized as one of the best 100 sports legends of the 20th century by the Amarillo Globe News
Played on the USA team in 1955 that captured gold in the Pan American Games in Mexico City
In 1968 she was inducted into Helms Foundation Hall of Fame

A four-time All-American, she is the all-time career-scoring leader for women’s college basketball with 4,061 points
Ranked third on the College’s Basketball Career Scoring List for all levels of men’s and women’s college basketball
Averaged 30.6 points per game over her four seasons (127 games) at Francis Marion College during the era that did not have the three-point field goal
The 1979 SCAIAW and American Women’s Sports Foundation Small College Player of the Year
Named the 1979 South Carolina Amateur Athlete of the Year
A final nominee for the 1978 Wade Trophy
A first-round draft choice in the WBL and participated in the 1981 WBL All-Star game
Inducted into the Francis Marion Hall of Fame in 1992, the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame in 2000, and was a part of the inaugural class for the Florence Area Athletic Hall of Fame in 2006
Played professionally for one season in Venezuela

As head coach of Notre Dame, she led the Irish to the 2001 NCAA Division I National Championship
Named the 2001 Naismith, Associated Press, WBCA and US Basketball Writers Assocation National Coach of the Year
The 2009 Carol Eckman Award Recipient
Led Notre Dame to three Final Fours (1997, 2001, 2011), nine Sweet Sixteen appearances and 21 seasons with 20-or-more victories
Taken Notre Dame to NCAA Tournament 18 times, including a current string of 16 consecutive NCAA appearances (1996-2011)
She was a member of the USA Basketball Women’s Collegiate Committee and is currently the Division I Legislative Chair for the WBCA’s Board of Directors
She ranks among the top 20 active NCAA Division I coaches with 644 career wins, reaching the 600-win milestone in 2010
She has guided Notre Dame to 197 appearances in the Associated Press Top 25 poll (As of the end of the 2009-2010 season)
A four year starter at St. Joseph’s University, she was the captain of the 1976-77 team, which finished with a 23-5 record and was ranked third nationally

A 1989 Kodak All-American for the University of Maryland, where over the course of her career she averaged 16.9 points and 5.8 rebounds per game
One of the most decorated players in Maryland history
She was the first player in Maryland history to register two seasons of 500 points or more, and one of only five players in school history to score 600 point or more in one seasons (686)
A member of three ACC Championship teams en route to being named the 1989 ACC Player of the Year, and ACC Tournament MVP.
A member of the ACC 50th Anniversary Team
In 2007, she was named an ACC Women’s Basketball Legend
A two-time Olympian, she was part of the USA Women’s Basketball Team that won gold in 1988 and captured bronze in 1992
In honor of being a member of the 1988 Gold Medal Team, the city of Martinsburg renamed the street in which she grew up to “Vicky Bullett Street”
She played six seasons in the WNBA, scoring 2,018 points during her career

A two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and WNBA All-Star
Scored over 2,000 career points, is fourth of the WNBA’s all-time 3-pointer list, and is the only player in the history of the Sacramento Monarchs to have her number retired
First WNBA Player of the Week in July of 1997, a member of the 1999 First Team All WNBA, and a two-time WNBA All-Star in 1999 and 2001
The 1991 USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year
Played with the 1995-96 US Women’s National Team that compiled a perfect 60-0 record
In four seasons at Auburn, she led her team to a combined record of 199-13, which included three Southeastern Conference Championships (1987-1989), four NCAA Tournament appearances and two runner-up finishes in 1988 and 1989
She was named to the 1988 NCAA Women’s Final Four All-Tournament Team
A 1st Lieutenant in the United States Army
Mother of Hope Alicia Bolton

The WNBA’s first president, guiding the league to a much-heralded launch in 1997 and overseeing the day-to-day operations for its first eight years
In 2005, she became the first woman to serve as President of USA Basketball, which oversees the US Men’s and Women’s Olympic basketball programs
A USA Basketball board member since 1989, she was the driving force behind the Women’s Senior National Team that produced a 60-0 record and won the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta
First woman elected to represent the USA on the board of the International Basketball Federation
A four-year starter and two-time Academic All-American at the University of Virginia, she also played in France for one year.
In high school, she set a varsity record for most points scored (male or female) with 1,755 in her career
Recipient of the 2008 Naismith Hall of Fame John W. Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award