Australian basketball world champion and two-time Olympic silver medallist Penny Taylor will be inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame later this year.
She won three WNBA championships with Phoenix MercuryThe former Opals captain and three-time Olympian will join Chinese legend Yao Ming among 10 players recognised by the sport's international governing body at a ceremony in the Philippines during the men's World Cup in August.
Taylor claimed two Olympic silver medals but her crowning moment came when she won tournament MVP honours in the Opals' 2006 world championship breakthrough. A three-time WNBA champion with Phoenix Mercury, the Melbourne product also played across Europe and Asia in a 19-year professional career that began in the WNBL with the Australian Institute of Sport team in 1997."My life is pretty much consumed with children and home life so it's a nice little reminder that I once did something else other than this," Taylor said of her Hall of Fame recognition.
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