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Mechelle VoepelESPN.com
CloseMechelle Voepel covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996.
The Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame has postponed its June 2020 induction ceremony until next year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Class of 2020 will now become the Class of 2021 and be inducted into the hall in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 12, 2021. There will be no additional members added for next year.
What now becomes the Class of 2021 consists of seven members: former college/WNBA/USA Basketball players Tamika Catchings and Swin Cash, former WNBA and international player Lauren Jackson, former Delta State player Debbie Brock, and contributors Carol Callan (USA Basketball), Carol Stiff (ESPN) and Sue Donohoe (NCAA).
Catchings (Tennessee in 1998) and Cash (UConn in 2000 and 2002) both won NCAA titles in college. They also won championships in the WNBA: Catchings with Indiana (2012), and Cash with Detroit (2003, 2006) and Seattle (2010). Catchings won four Olympic gold medals with Team USA, while Cash won two. Catchings currently is general manager of the WNBA’s Indiana Fever, and Cash is vice president of basketball operations and team development for the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans.
Jackson won two WNBA titles with Seattle (2004, 2010) and was a three-time MVP in the league. She was also a longtime stalwart of the Australian women’s national team, which included winning a gold medal in the 2006 FIBA World Cup.
Brock was a four-year starter at point guard for Delta State, which won three AIAW national championships in 1975-77 during the pre-NCAA era of women’s college basketball.
Callan has been executive director of the U.S. women’s national team since 1996. Donohoe was vice president of NCAA Division I basketball from 2003 to ’12. Stiff is ESPN vice president for programming and acquisitions, with emphasis on women’s basketball, the WNBA and other women’s sports.