Lynette Woodard, former Kansas University basketball standout and coach, has been named Kansan of the Year by Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas.
Woodard played at KU from 1978 to 1981, setting college records for career field goals and field goal attempts. She also played for the Harlem Globetrotters.
She was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in September and will be inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in June.
She served as an assistant coach at KU for four years under Marian Washington, until Washington retired last year.
The Native Sons and Daughters chose Emery Fager, chairman of the board of Commerce Bank and Trust of Topeka, as Distinguished Kansan of the Year.
The awards will be presented during a banquet at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 28 at the Kansas Expocentre in Topeka. Tickets are $35 per person or $400 for a table that seats 10. Payment for tickets can be mailed to Ed Moses, 700 S.W. Jackson, Suite 1408, Topeka, 66612. For more information, contact Mary Nichols at (785) 296-7634 or Steve Johnson at (913) 319-8604.
