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Michael Voepel, ESPN.comSep 21, 2023, 02:16 AM ET
Kim Mulkey, coach of the nationwide champion LSU Tigers ladies’s basketball staff, was considered one of six legendary athletes for Louisiana Tech honored by the college with statues unveiled Wednesday night time in Ruston, Louisiana.
The NBA’s Karl Malone, the WNBA’s Teresa Weatherspoon and the NFL’s Terry Bradshaw, Willie Roaf and the late Fred Dean have been the opposite honorees. The statues are on the Sarah and A.L. Williams Champions Plaza, which is a part of the redesign of the north finish zone entrance to Joe Aillet Stadium.
Mulkey, a local of Louisiana, performed for AIAW and NCAA championship groups in 1981 and 1982 with the Girl Techsters. She was then an assistant coach for 15 seasons at her alma mater, together with the 1988 championship season when Weatherspoon was the staff’s level guard.
560-74 file as participant and coach — Girl Techsters (@LATechWBB) September 21, 2023 Mulkey went 130-6 as a participant for Louisiana Tech and was 430-68 as an assistant coach there, earlier than occurring to be the pinnacle coach at Baylor, the place she guided the Bears to 3 NCAA titles. She took over at LSU in 2021 and gained the nationwide championship in her second season with the Tigers.
“Unimaginable night time with even higher individuals, reminiscing on recollections that can final a lifetime,” Mulkey wrote on social media Wednesday, congratulating the opposite honorees.
Weatherspoon was 31 when the WNBA debuted in 1997 and performed eight seasons within the league, seven with the New York Liberty. Each Mulkey and Weatherspoon have been additionally Olympic gold-medal winners as gamers, as was Malone. He spent 19 seasons within the NBA, all however one with the Utah Jazz, who’ve a statue of him exterior their enviornment in Salt Lake Metropolis.
Malone, Weatherspoon and Mulkey are within the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame.
Bradshaw gained 4 Tremendous Bowls as a quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Dean, who died in 2020, gained two Tremendous Bowls as a defensive finish with the San Francisco 49ers. Roaf was an offensive deal with for 13 seasons within the NFL. All three are within the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame.
Kim Mulkey amongst six honored with statues at Louisiana Tech
Michael Voepel covers the WNBA, ladies’s school basketball, and different school sports activities for espnW. Voepel started masking ladies’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996.
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