AUSTIN– Edwina Brown, college basketball’s National Player of the Year in 1999-2000, was inducted into the UT Women’s Athletics Hall of Honor recently at the Frank Erwin Center along with four other former University of Texas women student-athlete standouts. Enshrinement ceremonies for the 10th Longhorn Women’s Hall of Honor class and the 2009 Men’s Hall of Honor class was held during the Texas-Kansas football game.
Brown, a two-time All-American and first-team All-Big 12 Conference selection, played for The University of Texas from 1996-2000 and still holds a number of records including: 1705 career points, 517 career assists and 257 career steals. She is the only individual in school history to lead the team in scoring, rebounding, assists and steals in the same year, an accomplishment she achieved in both her junior and senior years.
Following her senior year, Brown earned one of The University of Texas Friar Society Awards, given annually to three or fewer undergraduate students for distinguished contributions to The University. As the third overall pick in the 2000 WNBA Draft, Brown spent five years with the WNBA before heading overseas to play on international teams includuing the Israeli Basketball League for ASA Jerusalem.
Brown will serve as the regional director for the South Texas Regional Lady Prodigy Camp taking place April 10-11, 2010 at Southwestern University in Georgetown, and later as the director for the National Lady Prodigy Camp taking place July 29-August 2, 2010 at The University of Texas at Arlington.