Diana Taurasi, Sandy Brondello Headline Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2027

The Women's Basketball Hall of Fame announced its induction class for 2027 on Thursday, headlined by WNBA legend Diana Taurasi.

Taurasi will be joined by former WNBA player and current WNBA coach Sandy Brondello, former WNBA coach Mike Thibault, longtime NCAA women's basketball referee Dee Kantner, former Women's Professional Basketball League star Molly Bolin Kazmer, and former chair of the NCAA Women's Basketball Committee Dr. Judith Holland.

The induction ceremony will take place on June 26, 2027, at the Tennessee Theatre in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Taurasi is widely regarded as one of the greatest women's basketball players of all time, as she enjoyed enormous success at every level.

Playing collegiately at UConn, Taurasi was a three-time national champion and two-time NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player before going first overall to the Phoenix Mercury in the 2004 WNBA draft.

Playing her entire WNBA career with the Mercury from 2004 to 2024, Taurasi was an 11-time All-Star, three-time WNBA champion, two-time WNBA Finals MVP, one-time WNBA MVP and the 2004 WNBA Rookie of the Year.

A five-time WNBA scoring leader, Taurasi is also the WNBA's all-time leading scorer with 10,646 career points.

On top of that, Taurasi won a record six Olympic gold medals as a member of the United States women's basketball team from 2004 to 2024.

Brondello played in the WNBA from 1998 to 2003 before breaking into coaching. A one-time WNBA All-Star, Brondello coached the Mercury (2014) and New York Liberty (2024) to championships, and she is the current head coach of the Toronto Tempo.

A former NBA assistant coach with the Los Angeles Lakers, Chicago Bulls and Milwaukee Bucks, Thibault had stints as the head coach of the WNBA's Connecticut Sun and Washington Mystics from 2003 to 2022.

Thibault was a two-time NBA champion as an assistant with the Lakers, and he won a WNBA title as the Mystics' head coach in 2019.