Sue Bird, Fowles, Pondexter, Beard lead women’s hoops HOF class

Sue Bird, Sylvia Fowles, Cappie Pondexter and Alana Beard will headline the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2025.

The four former players — stars at the collegiate level, multiple-time WNBA All-Stars and WNBA champions — were announced as Hall of Famers on Friday and will be inducted during a June 14 ceremony at the Tennessee Theatre in Knoxville.

Bird and Fowles, both multi-time Olympic gold medalists with USA Basketball, retired in 2022. Pondexter was named one of the WNBA’s best 25 players of all time in 2021 alongside Bird and Fowles, and Beard was a two-time WNBA Defensive Player of the Year.

The class is rounded out by coaches Lucille Kyvallos, who served as head coach for West Chester State College (Pa.) and Queens College (N.Y.), and Mark Campbell of Union University (Tenn.) as well as Women’s Basketball Coaches Association executive director and women’s basketball administrator Danielle Donehew.