Lynette Woodard/
Basketball
Woodard was selected by the Cleveland Rockers in the second round of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) Elite Draft in 1997. She was traded to the expansion Detroit Shock for the 1998 season. She scored a season-high 18 points on 9-11 shooting against the New York Liberty.
During the 1997 season, Woodard played in all 28 games for the Rockers, starting 27. One of the top defensive players in the league, she was ranked 15th in the WNBA in steals in 1997 with 1.64 steals per game. She scored a season-high 20 points against the Los Angeles Sparks.
A four-time Kodak All-America at Kansas (1978-1981), Woodard was director of athletics for the Kansas Missouri School District from 1993-94. She played four seasons in Italy, three seasons in Japan, and became the first female member of the world-reknowned Harlem Globetrotters in 1985. She played two seasons with the clown princes of basketball (1985-87). Woodard was captain of the U.S. National Team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Olympic Games.
In 1993, she received the Women's Sports Foundation® Flo Hyman Memorial Award and was inducted into the Foundation's International Women's Sports Hall of Fame in 1985.
A member of the 1996 Olympic Committee Borad of Directors, she presently serves on the Foundation's Advisory Board and is the vice president of marketing for MAGNA Securities Corp, a financial services corporation in New York City that was the first brokerage firm to be both African-American and female-owned. Woodard was named the Foundation's Professional Sportswomn of the Year in 1986. Served as a member of the Athletes' Council of the National Advisory Board 1994-1999. (1/00)