McKeesport's Swin Cash named finalist for Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

Former McKeesport basketball standout Swin Cash-Canal, who went on to star in college at Connecticut, in the WNBA and for Team USA in the Olympics, is one of 12 finalists for induction into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.

The list of finalists, announced Thursday evening during the ESPN broadcast of the Connecticut and Baylor women’s basketball game, includes such standouts as former Tennessee and WNBA star Tamika Catchings and WNBA champion Lauren Jackson.

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Cash-Canal closed out her decorated high school career with McKeesport as a WPIAL champion. In the 1998 Quad-A title game against North Allegheny, she scored 40 points and added 21 rebounds and 10 blocked shots as the Tigers won 69-52.

McKeesport capped its season in the PIAA Western Finals.

Cash-Canal finished her high school career with 2,678 points and 1,782 rebounds.

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Swin Cash looks over her newly retired Lady Tigers jersey during a halftime ceremony in the Neenie Campbell Gymnasium in McKeesport. Cash, who starred at McKeesport High School, has gone on to win two NCAA women’s championships at the University of Connecticut and the 2003 WNBA World Championship with the Detroit Shockers. Earlier this year she earned an Olympic Gold medal with the United States Women’s Basketball Team. The district retired her No. 32 and lifted her jersey into the rafters during last night’s McKeeesport-Oakland Catholic basketball game.

She is one of a select few to have won an NCAA title (Connecticut in 2000 and ‘02) an Olympic gold medal (2004 and ‘12) and a WNBA championship (2003, ‘06 and ‘10).

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UConn’s Swin Cash (32) drives past WVU’s Yolanda Paige (12) during their game in Morgantown on Tuesday, February 26, 2002.

Cash-Canal earned WNBA all-star selection in 2003, ‘05, ‘09 and ‘11.

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The Detriot Shock’s Swin Cash competes at Petersen Events Center May 15, 2004.

The Class of 2020 will be announced on ESPN2 during the women’s game between Connecticut and South Carolina on Feb. 10 and inducted on June 13 in Knoxville, Tenn.

This will be the 22nd group of inductees to be enshrined since the first class was honored in 1999. There currently are 171 hall of fame members.

For more information on the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, visit WBHOF.com.