Seattle Storm icon Sue Bird and four-time WNBA Defensive Player of the Year Sylvia Fowles were two of those four former players. named Friday at the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.

Former two-time DPOY Alana Beard and 2007 WNBA Finals MVP Cappie Pondexter will join them in the Class of 2025.

College basketball head coach Mark Campbell, former college basketball head coach Lucille Kyvallos and former WNBA executive Danielle Donehew were also elected to the Hall of Fame on Friday.

The Class of 2025 will be honored at a ceremony on June 14 at the Tennessee Theater in Knoxville.

Bird became a star at UConn, where she led the Huskies to two NCAA championships. She later led the Storm to four titles between 2004 and 2020 before retiring in 2022 to lead all WNBA players with 3,234 career assists.

Beard, who left Duke as the program’s all-time leading scorer, spent her first eight WNBA seasons with the Washington Mystics, where she was named to four All-Defensive Teams. He was later named Defensive Player of the Year in 2017 and 2018.

Fowles, a former LSU star, won two MVP Finals titles during the Minnesota Lynx’s runs to the 2015 and 2017 championships. She earned her fourth DPOY title in 2021, the most by a player in WNBA history behind Tamika Catchings.

The Big East Player of the Year during his Rutgers career, Pondexter led the Phoenix Mercury to the 2007 title with a Finals MVP performance before helping the Mercury win another title in 2009.

Pondexter, Bird and Fowles played on the U.S. women’s basketball team that won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Fowles has three more Olympic gold medals, while Bird has five more.

Campbell was appointed head coach at TCU in March 2023. He worked on the staffs of both Oregon State and Oregon before joining the Horned Frogs. credited He hired Sabrina Ionescu before spending three seasons as head coach at Sacramento State. He has a 63-36 overall record as a head coach.

Kyvallos coached at West Chester University and later caused Queens College advanced to the national championship in the second year of the AIAW women’s basketball tournament. She coached the US women’s basketball team at the 1977 World University Games in Sofia, Bulgaria, winning a silver medal.

Donehew currently serves as executive director of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association. HE credited He served as the Dream’s EVP after playing a role in bringing the Atlanta Dream to Georgia and previously serving as the Assistant Athletic Director of Basketball Operations at the University of Tennessee.

It was Nera White and Lusia Harris-Stewart First women’s basketball players were inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1992. The Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame was inaugurated in 1999 and has been inducted since then more than that 170 members.