Sue Donohoe

Class of 2021

Donohoe was the Vice President of NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball from 2003 to 2011. She directed the operational and strategic oversight for Division I women’s basketball and the Division I Women’s Basketball Championship.
Currently, she is a Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame Board of Directors member and has served as vice president, president, past president, and screening committee chair.
She began her career as a Graduate Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach at Louisiana Tech University, where she helped them win the 1982 NCAA National Championship.
Her coaching career continued as she became the Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach at Stephen F. Austin State University and then at the University of Arkansas.
She was the Assistant Commissioner of the Southland Conference from 1996 to 1998 and then transitioned to the Associate Commissioner of the Conference.
Donohoe was the Executive Director of the Kay Yow Cancer Fund from 2011 to 2015.
In 2008, she spearheaded an effort for people to better understand the NCAA selection process through creating a mock selection weekend, which involved media, administration, and former coaches.
Named by The Chronicle of Higher Education as one of the “Top 10 Most Powerful People in College Sports.”
Donohoe was the first woman to receive the Dave Dixon Louisiana Sports Leadership Awarded presented by the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 2017.
In 2015, she was awarded the U.S. Basketball Writer’s Mary Joe Haverbeck Award for commitment and service to women’s college basketball.