Lamar sports information

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Honoring her life-long achievements in and contributions to the sport of basketball, former Lamar women’s basketball player and current Miami-Dade College head coach Susan Summons was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday.

Summons spent the 1978-79 and 1979-80 seasons as a Cardinal after two seasons at Roxbury Community College in the suburbs of Boston, where she was an All-American and helped her team reach the National Junior College Athletic Association championship tournament in consecutive seasons. She averaged 18.0 points and 6.2 rebounds per game while shooting 50 percent from the field for Lamar and set an NCAA single-game scoring record with 43 points against McNeese State that stood for seven years. The current record is 60 points set by Long Beach State’s Cindy Brown against San Jose State on Feb. 16, 1987.

While her achievements at Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Dorchester, Massachusetts, the Boston Neighborhood Basketball League, Roxbury Community College, and Lamar University are remarkable, Summons’ induction into the Hall of Fame is due to what she accomplished after her time in Beaumont. Summons was drafted in the third round of the Women’s Basketball League in 1980 by the New Jersey Gems and later played for the New England Gulls in Roxbury. She was the first African-American woman from Boston to play in the WBL. She has been named as one of “Trailblazers of the Game” and will be included in the WBL display at the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.

Summons continues to contribute to the sport of basketball as the head coach of Miami-Dade College’s women’s basketball team where she has received numerous Coach of the Year and humanitarian honors including the 2018 Southern Conference Coach of the Year award.