Tonya Sampson and Andrea Stinson, who stared at North Carolina 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 by the conference.
The legends, one from each of the 12 current ACC member schools, will be honored at the 2010 ACC Women's Basketball Tournament, which will be held March 4-7 at the Greensboro Coliseum.
Sampson, who played for the Tar Heels from 1990-94, earned All-America honors as a senior while leading UNC to the national championship. Sampson paced the Tar Heels in scoring in each of her four years and graduated as UNC's career scoring leader with 2,143 points and currently ranks third on that list.
Stinson nearly matched Sampson's scoring exploits in just three seasons, putting up 2,136 points for the Wolfpack from 1989-91 -- currently third on the school's all-time list. Stinson was a consensus All-American in 1990 and '91 and the ACC Player of the Year in 1990, the season she scored 50 points in a game against Providence.
Goins, who played for Duke from 1982-86, ranked second in school history in both points (1,140) and assists (297) and eighth with 461 rebounds at the time of her graduation. Her numbers were even more impressive at graduation itself: She graduated cum laude from Duke in 1986 with a bachelor of science in computer science.
The other nine honorees are: Annie Odoy from Boston College, Donna Reed (formerly Forester) from Clemson, Brooke Wyckoff from Florida State, Joyce Pierce-Joyner from Georgia Tech, Tara Heiss from Maryland, Meghan Knochey (formerly Saake) from Miami, Jenny Boucek from Virginia, Tere Williams from Virginia Tech and Barbara Durham from Wake Forest.
