A graduate of Wichita North High School, Lynette Woodard enjoyed a phenomenal basketball career at the scholastic, collegiate, professional and international level.

She played college basketball at the University of Kansas and competed in two Summer Olympics (1980 and 1984). She also played professional basketball overseas in Italy and Japan.

In 1985, Woodard became the first female member of the famed Harlem Globetrotters. She has been elected to the National High School Sports Hall of Fame, the University of Kansas Athletic Hall of Fame, and in 1992 became the first female to be enshrined in the GTE Academic All-American Hall of Fame.

To read more about Lynette Woodard, visit the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame web site.