South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley will be one of nine inductees into the FIBA Hall of Fame Class of 2025.
Every member of the Class of 2025 will be honored at a ceremony on May 17 in Bahrain. Former Duke men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski is getting recognized, along with former NBA stars Pau Gasol and Andrew Bogut. Portuguese basketball player and former WNBA star Ticha Penicheiro will also be inducted.
Staley won the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup titles as a player in 1998 in Germany and in 2002 in China. She also won Olympic gold medals in 1996, 2000 and 2004 in addition to coaching the USA to gold at the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2018 and at the 2020 Olympic Games.
The FIBA Hall of Fame recognizes people who “have built the foundations of the global sport of basketball since its birth, right up until its accomplished glory of the modern day,” according to the news release.
There have been 192 Hall of Famers from 45 countries since the beginning in 2007. The Hall of Fame is in the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball in Mies, Switzerland.
Staley was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013 and Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012. As a player, she was a six-time WNBA All-Star.
Full FIBA Hall of Fame Class of 2025
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Dawn Staley
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Mike Krzyzewski
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Alphonse Bilé (Côte d’Ivoire)
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Andrew Bogut (Australia)
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Leonor Borrell (Cuba)
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Pau Gasol (Spain)
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Fadi El Khatib (Lebanon)
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Ticha Penicheiro (Portugal)
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Ratko Radovanovic (Serbia)
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Lulu Kesin covers South Carolina athletics for The Greenville News and the USA TODAY Network. Email her at lkesin@gannett.com and follow her on X, formerly known as Twitter, @Lulukesin
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