Home-Court Honors
Tamera Young is included in sports honors
The Greater Wilmington Sports Hall of Fame will celebrate its twentieth anniversary next year by inducting five individuals during the organization’s induction weekend May 15-17, 2026.
Former WNBA player TAMERA YOUNG, who grew up in Wilmington, will be one of those inductees.
Young (above) played basketball at Laney High School and was a McDonald’s All-American nominee.
At James Madison University, she led the Coastal Athletic Association in scoring and rebounding.
“Young was the eighth overall pick by the Atlanta Dream in the 2008 WNBA draft. She played one season in Georgia before sparking the Chicago Sky to three Eastern Conference semifinals and the WNBA Finals in 2014,” hall of fame organizers say.
She finished her WNBA playing time with the Las Vegas Aces in 2018 and 2019 and served in 2024 as an assistant coach for the Chicago Sky before playing overseas.
The four other local inductees will be BILL CURRY (surfing), FRED LYNCH (basketball/high school athletic director), RON MUSSELMAN (baseball), and ED WILSON (youth coaching).
The Greater Wilmington Sports Hall of Fame has included nearly eighty people from various sports or fields with local ties over its past two decades.
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