KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee women's basketball's all-time leading scorer and rebounder Chamique Holdsclaw will be inducted into the Washington D.C. Sports Hall of Fame on Sunday at Nationals Park, Tennessee Athletics announced Thursday.
The ceremony is scheduled for approximately 12:30 p.m. ET, followed by the Washington Nationals-Cincinnati Reds Major League Baseball game's first pitch at 1:35 p.m. Gates will open at 12:15 p.m.
Holdsclaw guided the Lady Vols to three NCAA National Championships (1996, 1997, 1998). She was also a four-time Kodak/WBCA All-American and two-time Naismith Player of the Year, according to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.
The No. 1 overall pick in the 1999 WNBA Draft, Holdsclaw spent the first six of her 11 pro seasons with the Washington Mystics, Tennessee Athletics said. During that time, she earned WNBA Rookie of the Year honors and claimed five of her six WNBA All-Star awards.
The 6-foot-2 forward later 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, according to Tennessee Athletics.
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.
She was previously 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.
The most recent athlete to be inducted into the D.C. Sports Hall of Fame was Jen Adams, Loyola University Maryland's head women's lacrosse coach.
