FIBA Hall of Fame
    Ann MEYERS (USA)

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    2007
    CLASS

    Category | Player Date of Birth | 26.03.1955 Position | Point Guard Height | 175cm (5'8") Country | USA

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    Clubs

    • UCLA (Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women -AIAW-): 1974-1978

    • New Jersey Gems (Women's Professional Basketball League -WBL-): 1979-1980

    Club Highlights

    • 1978 National Collegiate Champion

    National Team

    • World Champion in Seoul 1979

    • Olympic Silver medalist in Montreal 1976

    • Gold medalist in the Pan American Games of Mexico City 1975

    • Silver medalist in the Pan American Games of San Juan 1979

    • Silver medalist in the World University Games of 1977 in Sofia

    Individual Highlights

    • First woman ever to receive a full athletic scholarship from UCLA

    • 4 times Kodak All-American: 1975,1976,1977 and 1978

    • 1978 Broderick Award Winner (recognizing the best collegiate player in the U.S.A.)

    • Co-MVP and Top Scorer of the WBL in 1979-1980

    • Only woman ever to sign a free-agent contract with an NBA franchise (in September 1979,with the Indiana Pacers,but did not make the team and was released)

    • UCLA retired her #15 jersey on 3rd February 1990

    • Winner of the 2006 United States Sports Academy's (USSA) Ronald Reagan Media Award after over two and a half decades devoted to sports broadcasting and journalism

    • General Manager of the Phoenix Mercury (WNBA) and Vice President of the Phoenix Suns (NBA) since September 2006