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Halls of Fame and Awards/Honors

-1975 - '76-'77-'78 First 4X All America (male or female) in College Basketball

-1976 - Olympic Silver Medal Winner – Started with the First Olympic US Women's Basketball Team

-1975 - Part of UCLA's National Championship Team in Track and Field

-1977 - '78-'79 Won AAU Championships with Anna's Bananas

-1978 - Part of UCLA's National Championship Team in Basketball

-1978 - Broderick Cup Winner for Basketball (Player of the Year)

-1978 - Broderick Cup Overall Winner

-1978 - UCLA's Athlete of the Year

-1978 - '79- #1 Overall pick in the WBL

-1979 - '80- Co-MVP of the WBL

-1979 - First -and Still Only- Woman to have a tryout in the NBA (Pacers) as a Free Agent

-1981 - Cincinnati Hall of Fame

-1981 - '82-'82- First Place in Women's Superstars Competition

-1981 - First and Only Woman Ever Invited to Compete in the Men's Superstars

-1985 - International Women's Sports Foundation Hall of Fame (First Team Sport Athlete to be Inducted)

-1986 - Orange County Sports Hall of Fame

-1988 - UCLA Hall of Fame (First Woman to be Inducted)

-1993 - Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

-1994 - Catholic Youth Organization Hall of Fame

-1995 - National High School Federation Hall of Fame

-1999 - Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

-1999 – Mel Greenberg Media Award

-2001 - Wooden All Time All American

-2002 - Southern California Sportscaster “Good Guy” Award

-2003 - NCAA Silver Anniversary Award

-2006 - Ronald Reagan Media Award

-2006 - California Sports Hall of Fame

-2007 - FIBA Hall of Fame -First American Woman and one of the first three Americans to be inducted (along with Bill Russell and Dean Smith)

-2007 & 2009 - General Manager of the WNBA Champion Phoenix Mercury

-2010 - Named “Top Business Woman” by Phoenix Business Journal

-2011 - YWCA's “Sports Leader of the Year” Award

-2012 - USBWA Named “National College Player of the Year Award” in honor of Ann Meyers Drysdale