When I ran into Lynette Woodard earlier this summer, she was questioning what she was going to do with her life.
She had spent the previous three-plus years in Wichita attending to her mother, Dorothy, whose health had been slipping. Dorothy died in December and Woodard spent time grieving and thinking about her next chapter.
Woodard, a 1977 North graduate, is in the argument as the greatest female basketball player in history. She scored 3,649 points — more than any other college player — and was a four-time All-American at Kansas. She helped lead the U.S. team to a gold medal in the 1984 Olympics and became the first female Harlem Globetrotter in 1985.