UNC Women's Basketball Alumni

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2010 ACC Women's Basketball Legends: Tonya Sampson, UNC

Tonya Sampson (UNC, 1990-94): As a senior, Tonya Sampson earned Kodak, Basketball America and Basketball Times All-America honors, while leading the Tar Heels to the 1994 NCAA National Championship. She paced the team in scoring in each of her four years, averaging a career-best 21 points per game over the 1992-93 season. Sampson graduated as Carolina’s all-time leading scorer with 2,143 points (The ACC)

Goins, Sampson, Stinson named ACC women's legends

Tonya Sampson and Andrea Stinson, who stared at UNC and N.C. State during an era of significant growth for women's basketball, and former Duke standout Connie Goins are among the sixth ACC Women's Basketball Legends class announced Friday. The legends will be honored at the 2010 ACC Women's Basketball Tournament, March 4-7 at the Greensboro Coliseum. (Durham Herald-Sun)

Kellie Kennedy follows passion for coaching

For four years, Kellie Kennedy played basketball for the Tar Heels while studying business at UNC. She excelled in the classroom and her play on the court earned her Most Improved Player Honors in 1988. However, as graduation approached, Kennedy was faced with two options: continuing her career in what she loved, basketball, or utilizing the education she received to pursue a career in the business field. Kennedy decided to pursue both. (Loyola Maroon)

IOC reallocates Marion Jones' medals

The International Olympic Committee has reallocated medals from the 2000 Sydney Games events in which Marion Jones, who has since been disqualified, competed. Jones admitted to using banned substances prior to, during and after the 2000 Games in Australia. On Dec. 12, 2007, the IOC stripped Jones of medals she won in 2000 and 2004. (UPI)

Marion Jones eyes basketball career

Disgraced former track and field star Marion Jones has been training with the WNBA's San Antonio Silver Stars with a view to making a comeback in basketball for European and US teams at age 34. The one-time hero of the 2000 Sydney Olympics was released from a federal prison in September of last year after serving a six-month sentence for lying about taking performance-enhancing drugs and her role in a check fraud plot. (ABC Online)

Rashanda McCants is veteran of cancer's battlefield

Tonight will be Breast Health Awareness Night at Target Center. Lynx players will wear all pink when they play Connecticut at 7 p.m. Pink is one of Lynx rookie Rashanda McCants' favorite colors. She is glad to wear it, especially since her mother, Brenda, a breast cancer survivor, will be at the game. "My mom has been through that struggle, and I've seen that struggle right up front," said McCants, a 6-1 rookie forward. (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Rashad, Rashanda McCants to Host 3rd Annual "Shoot for the Cure"

Rashad McCants, a member of the 2005 UNC Tar Heels National Championship team and current member of the NBA's Sacramento Kings will host his 3rd Annual "Shoot For The Cure" fundraising event Friday, July 24 through Sunday, July 26 at the Bele Chere Festival in Asheville, NC. Joined by his sister Rashanda of the Minnesota Lynx, the brother and sister duo are hosting this charitable event to combat breast cancer. (Our Sports Central)

Tonya Sampson of UNC's 1994 NCAA title team plays her first season for Carolina Queens

Long before Tonya Sampson was a college basketball star, she was playing football with the boys on the grassy fields of Royal Lane Park in Clinton.An all-American on the UNC Tar Heels' 1994 NCAA championship basketball team, Sampson is now playing her first full season for the Carolina Queens women's professional football team. (Charlotte Observer)

Rashanda McCants still following her big brother

It is inevitable, Rashanda McCants says, that wherever she goes in life and whomever she meets, the question always comes up: How is your brother? "It's usually the first question someone asks," the Minnesota Lynx rookie said. "People usually ask me how my brother is doing before they ask me about how I'm doing. I don't mind talking about my brother at all, but that part sort of bugs me." (St. Paul Pioneer Press)

NCAA penalizes Florida State for "major violations in its athletics program"

The NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions has penalized Florida State University for major violations in its athletics program. The case involved academic fraud affecting more than 60 student-athletes across 10 sports, as well as impermissible benefits, unethical conduct by three former academic support services staff members, and a failure to monitor by the university.

The sports programs involved in these violations include football, baseball, men's track and field, women's track and field, men's swimming, women's swimming, men's basketball, women's basketball, softball and men's golf. Penalties for the violations include four years of probation, scholarship reductions, vacation of records, and show-cause penalties for the former staff members. (NCAA.org)

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