Swin Cash's induction into Women's Basketball Hall of Fame delayed until 2021
McKeesport’s Swin Cash must wait another year for her induction into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.
The Hall of Fame’s Board of Directors and Management team announced Tuesday that the 2020 induction ceremony scheduled for June 13 has been postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak and will be rescheduled for June 12, 2021, in Knoxville, Tenn.
Cash, one of the all-time WNBA greats, will be inducted with former Tennessee and WNBA star Tamika Catchings. Cash and Catchings are the only two players in WNBA history to reach 5,000 points, 2,000 rebounds and 1,000 assists.
The Hall of Fame Class of 2020 will become the Class of 2021 and also will include Debbie Brock, who will be inducted as a veteran player, contributors Carol Callan, Sue Donohoe and Carol Stiff and international player Lauren Jackson.
Cash, who was hired last year as the vice president of basketball operations and team development for the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans, is also a member of the WPIAL Hall of Fame and the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, inducted in 2008 and 2018.
Please everyone stay home, stay safe! Let’s flatten this curve together?? Stay encouraged we will ALL get through this together if we care about one another and our communities??
— Swin Cash (@SwinCash) March 23, 2020
Cash played 15 seasons in the WNBA after she was the second overall draft choice by the Detroit Shock in 2002. Subsequently, she was traded to the Seattle Storm and Chicago Sky in 2008 and 2012 for the Nos. 4 and 2 overall draft picks, respectively. Among her basketball achievements, she retired ranked fourth in WNBA in games played (479) while averaging 10.7 points, 5.3 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game for her career.
Cash won two WNBA championships — two in Detroit (2003, ‘06) and one in Seattle (2010) — two NCAA titles at Connecticut in 2000 and ‘02 and two Olympic gold medals in ‘04 (Athens) and ‘12 (London).
In high school, she helped McKeesport win a WPIAL championship in 1998, scoring 40 points, with 21 rebounds, in the Quad-A championship game against North Allegheny. Cash finished her high school career with 2,678 points and 1,782 rebounds.
Jerry DiPaola is a TribLive reporter covering Pitt athletics since 2011. A Pittsburgh native, he joined the Trib in 1993, first as a copy editor and page designer in the sports department and later as the Pittsburgh Steelers reporter from 1994-2004. He can be reached at jdipaola@triblive.com.
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