Chamique Holdsclaw, Tennessee women’s basketball’s all-time leading scorer and rebounder, will be inducted into the Washington D.C. Sports Hall of Fame on Sunday at Nationals Park.
The formal induction ceremony will be held prior to the Washington Nationals-Cincinnati Reds Major League Baseball game. The ceremony is scheduled for approximately 12:30 p.m. ET, followed by the game’s first pitch at 1:35 p.m. Gates will open at 12:15 p.m.
The No. 1 overall pick in the 1999 WNBA Draft, Holdsclaw spent the first six of her 11 pro seasons with the Washington Mystics. She earned WNBA Rookie of the Year honors and claimed five of her six WNBA All-Star awards while playing in the nation’s capital.
During her time with the Mystics, Holdsclaw led the league in scoring in 2002 and rebounding in 2002 and 2003, was a three-time All-WNBA second-team selection and averaged 18.3 points and nine rebounds per game.
The 6-foot-2 forward went on to play for the Los Angeles Sparks (2005-07), Atlanta Dream (2009) and San Antonio Silver Stars (2010), averaging 16.9 ppg. and 7.6 rpg. during her 11-year career while starting 252 of 279 contests. She picked up her sixth All-Star nod in 2005 while with the Sparks.
A three-time NCAA national champion with the Lady Vols in 1996, 1997 and 1998, including an undefeated 39-0 season en route to the last of those titles, Holdsclaw was a four-time winner of Kodak/WBCA All-America and All-SEC distinction. Additionally, she was a consensus two-time national player of the year recipient in 1998 and 1999, and she finished her collegiate career with 3,025 points and 1,295 rebounds. She still ranks No. 12 overall in NCAA Division I scoring and remains No. 1 in the SEC.
Internationally, Holdsclaw was an Olympic gold medalist with Team USA at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and helped her country win gold at the 1998 FIBA World Championships in Berlin, Germany. In addition to the new hall of fame accolades, she previously was inducted into the NYC Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015 and both the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame and the University of Tennessee Athletics Hall of Fame in 2018.
