In an announcement by the State of Kansas Sports Hall of Fame on Wednesday, former K-State standout Priscilla Gary-Sweeney (women’s basketball) has been selected as a member of the 56th Anniversary Class of 2017. The induction class of 2017 will be enshrined in ceremonies on Sunday, October 1, at the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in the Wichita Boathouse.
According to a release from K-State Athletics, Gary-Sweeney is a two-time letter winner for the Wildcats from 1981-83, was the first K-State women’s basketball All-American in program history at the conclusion of the 1982-83 season. She led the program in scoring during her two seasons in Manhattan and tallied 1,169 career points to currently rank 25th on the K-State career scoring list. She holds the K-State career record for scoring average at 18.3 points per game and ranks third in career field goal percentage (.558) and 33rd in career assists with 172.
She was a two-time All-Big Eight First-Team selection, while guiding the program to a pair of Big Eight Conference titles and consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, including the program’s first trip to the Elite Eight in 1982.
In 1998, Gary-Sweeney was the first K-State women’s basketball player inducted into the K-State Athletics Hall of Fame and in 2009 her number 10 was retired along with former teammate Tammie Romstad’s number 33. The program’s hustle award, given each year at the team’s postseason banquet, is named in her honor.
Gary-Sweeney is joined in the induction Class of 2017 by former Kansas City Royal great George Brett; former women’s track All-American at Kansas, Kristi Kloster Burritt (Olathe); Wichita Heights High School basketball coach and Wichita area tennis coach Charles Doughty (Wichita); three-sport star at Kansas Galen Fiss (Johnson City); 1954 Kansas cross country national champion Al Frame (Kinsley); college football coaching legend Dennis Franchione (Girard); Olympic gold medalist Dean Kelley (McCune); former professional and college football coach John Levra (Arma); two-sport athlete at Wichita State and former Major League Baseball player Don Lock (Kingman); Barton and Cloud community colleges women’s basketball coach Jerry McCarty (Coffeyville); Kansas basketball player and former president of the Kansas Golf Association Gerald Waugh (Wellington); and former Wichita State baseball All-American Eric Wedge. Doughty, Fiss and Kelley will be honored posthumously.
