When Lynette Woodard gained fame on the basketball court in the late 1970s and early 1980s, women’s athletics still was fighting to earn mainstream acceptance in the United States. Lack of media ...

It was Lynette Woodard's childhood dream to play for the ... Woodard made the 1980 U.S. Olympic basketball team but did not compete because of the Western boycott of those Moscow Games.

Earlier this season, she surpassed Lynette Woodard for the most points scored ... the Hawkeyes were extremely complimentary toward the 1984 Olympic gold medalist, with head coach Lisa Bluder ...

Lynette Woodard is one of the few who bust that narrative ... U.S. women’s basketball team to a Gold Medal in the Summer Olympics. She played professionally overseas and in the first two ...

The basketball team originally started in 1926, but it didn't have its first woman player until 1985, when Olympic gold medalist Lynette Woodard made history as the first woman Globetrotter.

KNOXVILLE, TENN.? Saturday’s hostess of the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Debbie Antonelli, said it best, when referring to Lynette Woodard’s four Kodak All-America ...

The history of the game before the institution of a 3-point line makes scoring records set by the likes of Pete Maravich and Lynette Woodard even more impressive, as neither player benefitted from ...