Basketball legend Candace Parker is headlining the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame class of 2025.

According to USA Today, Parker will be inducted along with WNBA MVP Elena Delle Donne, Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve, and NBA analyst Doris Burke. Also, international players Isabelle Fijalkowski and Amaya Valdemoro and Kirkwood Community College coach Kim Muhl have been elected. Barbara Kennedy-Dixon will be inducted posthumously.

Regarded as one of the greatest women basketball players of all time, Parker won WNBA Rookie of the Year and MVP in 2008, and is the only player to accomplish the feat. She remains the only WNBA player in the top 10 in career points, assists, rebounds and blocks.

A standout at the University of Tennessee, she  won back-to-back national championships in 2007 and 2008, and took home the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four both years.

In 2019, Delle Donne led the Washington Mystics to their only title in 2019. A two-time MVP, Donne became the first player in WNBA history to finish a regular season with a 50% field goal percentage, 40% 3-point field goal percentage and 90% free throw percentage during the 2019 season.

As head coach for the Lynx for 16 seasons, Reeve has the most career wins (364) and playoff wins (52) in WNBA history. She also led the Lynx to four championships and the U.S. women's national team to an eighth consecutive Olympic gold medal at the 2024 Paris Games.

ESPN analyst Burke, who's already in the Naismith Hall of Fame, made history in 2024, when she became the first woman to call the NBA Finals. She began her career as an analyst for Big East games and as a radio and TV announcer of the New York Liberty.

Valdemoro was a part of three championship teams with the Houston Comets. She also played in two Olympic Games for Spain and won eight Spanish League titles. Fijalkowski is a five-time French League champion and the all-time leading scorer in the league.

In 36 seasons as coach  at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Muhl has won nine NJCAA Division II championships with a career record of 1,045-171.upjo

Playing for Clemson from 1978-8, Kennedy-Dixon, scored 3,113 career points placing her  seventh all-time in women's college basketball history. She holds ACC career records for scoring, rebounds (1,252), field goals (1,349)  field goal attempts (2,688), and is a two-time All-American