Lusia Harris, the first and only woman to be drafted ... She played alongside fellow pioneers Nancy Lieberman and Pat Summitt, who went by her maiden name Pat Head at the time.

By Richard Sandomir Lusia Harris, a powerful center who led the ... Her Olympic teammate Pat Summitt, who went on to a Hall of Fame career as the women’s basketball coach at the University ...

Lusia Harris, one of the most acclaimed female ... On a squad that included such stars as Nancy Lieberman, Ann Meyers and Pat Summitt (then known by her maiden name, Pat Head), Ms. Harris was ...

Groundbreaking basketball star Lusia ... Ann Meyers and Pat Head (Summit) -- that won the silver medal in the first Olympic women's basketball tournament in Montreal in 1976. Harris was ...

Lusia “Lucy” Harris, a star in women’s collegiate basketball during the 1970s and the first and only woman ever to be officially drafted by an NBA team, died Tuesday, according to a ...

Lusia Harris was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1992 as the first Black woman to earn that honor. Doug Feinberg | The Associated Press Hall of Famer Lusia Harris was the first woman ...

This has to be a publicity stunt, Lusia ‘Lucy’ Harris-Stewart thought to herself ... Hall of Fame coach and longtime Tennessee Volunteers coach Pat Summitt wrote in her book, “Sum It ...

Lusia Harris was the daughter of Mississippi sharecroppers. She was the daughter who came home from school, went to work picking cotton and then rushed home to the basket. Few families in her ...

Center Lusia “Lucy” Harris ... a silver medal,” the late Pat Summit said in a 2005 documentary. The legendary Tennessee coach, a member of that team, called Harris the “anchor” of ...

“Coach Summitt was my mentor and the reason why I’ve been coaching basketball the last 17 years in high school,” Harris said. “Every time I’m coaching, Pat Summitt is in the huddle with me.