Meyers was the first player to be part of the U.S. National Team while still in High School . She was the first woman to be signed to a four year athletic scholarship for college, at UCLA . She was also the first woman to sign a contract with a National Basketball Association team, the Indiana Pacers .
Meyers currently resides in Huntington Beach, California and is a network television sports analyst for ESPN , CBS , and NBC .
- Ann was a four year athletic scholarship player for the UCLA Bruins women's basketball team ( 1976 – 1979 ), the first woman to be so honored at any university.
- On March 25th, , 90–74 at Pauley Pavilion .
- While at UCLA ( 1976 – 1979 ), she became the first four-time All American women's Basketball player,
- She was the winner of the Broderick Award as outstanding women's college basketball player of the year, as well as the Broderick Cup for outstanding woman athlete of the year in 1978 .
- Ann was the first woman player drafted by the Women's Pro Basketball League ( WBL ) in 1978. Ann was the WBL Co-MVP for the 1979-1980.
- In 1980 , Ann made NBA history when she signed a $50,000 no-cut contract with NBA 's Indiana Pacers . She participated in three-day tryouts for the team, the first by any women for the NBA, but eventually was not chosen for the final squad.
- She won TV's Women Superstars competition three consecutive years ( 1980 – 1982 )
- Ann received her first Hall Of Fame membership in 1985 , when she was inducted into the International Women's Sports Hall Of Fame in the contemporary category for basketball.
- She was inducted into the ''UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame'' in 1988 as the first woman inductee.
- Her #15 basketball jersey was one of the first four retired by UCLA. She was honored on February 3rd, 1990 in a ceremony in Pauley Pavilion , along with Denise Curry (#12), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (#33), and Bill Walton (#32). This was the key moment in the "Pauley at 25" celebration of twenty-five years of the arena.
- On May 10 , 1993 , she was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall Of Fame , located in Springfield, Massachusetts .
- She was inducted into the National High School Hall Of Fame in 1995 .
- On June 5th, 1999 , she was inducted as a charter member of the Women's Basketball Hall Of Fame , in Knoxville, Tennessee .
- In 2001 , Ann was honored as a Wooden All-Time All-American by the Wooden Award .
- She was a 2003 NCAA Silver anniversary award recipient
In 1986 , she married former Los Angeles Dodger Baseball Hall Of Fame pitcher Don Drysdale , and took the name . It was the first time that a married couple were members of their respective sports' Halls Of Fame . Meyers and Drysdale had three children together: D.J. (son), Drew (daughter), and Darren (son).
She was widowed on July 3 , 1993 when Don died of a heart attack in Montreal, Canada , and she later changed back to her Maiden Name . (The retired numbers section in the 2005-2006 UCLA men's and women's Basketball media guides still list her as Ann Meyers-Drysdale, her name at the time her jersey was retired.)
Meyers is the sister of former NBA player Dave Meyers, who also played college basketball at UCLA, under legendary coach John Wooden . He played four seasons for the Milwaukee Bucks after being one of four players traded from the Los Angeles Lakers (who had drafted him in the first round of the 1975 NBA Draft ) for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar .
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