Washington inducted into Hall of Fame

? Retired Kansas University coach Marian Washington was among six people inducted Saturday night into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.

Lynette Woodard, a four-time All-American at KU and former Olympian, was in attendance to see her collegiate coach inducted. Woodard was interim coach at Kansas when Washington took a medical leave and then retired last season.

The other inductees were North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatchell, North Dakota State coach Amy Ruley, Oregon coach and Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame member Bev Smith, former USA Basketball executive director Bill Wall and eight-time AAU All-American Lurlyne Greer Rogers.

Rogers, who died in 2001 at age 73, was represented at the ceremony by her niece, Beth Greer Byrd, and nephew, Ralph Greer.

“When you love something or someone, you don’t know what to say, and that’s how I feel tonight,” Hatchell said during the ceremony. “Words can’t express the love I have for the game.”

The first Hall of Fame class was inducted in 1999, and there are now 79 members.