WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – One of the all-time greats to lace it up for the Old Gold and Black is set to add another prestigious honor to her career accolades this weekend when Katie Douglas is inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday night. The NCAA and WNBA champion will become the 16th Boilermaker to be enshrined in the state basketball legion of honor.
Douglas was a part of one of Purdue’s elite generations, winning the 1999 NCAA National Championship, reaching the 2001 NCAA National Championship Game and claiming three Big Ten Tournament titles, as well as regular season championships in 1999 and 2001.
A four-year starter for the Boilermakers, Douglas is the only two-time first team All-American in program history. In her junior and senior campaigns, she was named first team Kodak All-American, Big Ten Player of the Year and Purdue Female Athlete of the Year. She was a second team Academic All-America selection her junior year, first team Academic All-American as a senior and a three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree.
Douglas amassed 1,965 career points during her time in West Lafayette, which currently ranks fifth most by a Boilermaker. The Indianapolis native averaged 14.6 points, 5.4 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 2.4 steals per game over 135 games played and 101 starts. Douglas shot 44.5% from the field and 34% from distance.
Her 327 steals and 526 assists in her career continue to rank second and fourth in the Purdue history books, respectively.
Following her time at Purdue, Douglas embarked on a 14-year career in the WNBA, while playing overseas during the offseason. Douglas was taken with the 10th overall pick in the 2001 WNBA Draft by the Orlando Miracle, later the Connecticut Sun. She guided the Sun to the 2004 and 2005 WNBA Finals, before returning home to the Indiana Fever in a 2008 trade.
With her hometown team, Douglas won the 2012 WNBA Championship, while also reaching the finals in 2009. Douglas earned five trips to the WNBA All-Star Game, winning All-Star MVP honors in 2006. Her awards haul also included All-WNBA First Team in 2006, two All-WNBA Second Team nods, four WNBA All-Defensive First Team selections and one WNBA All-Defensive Second Team pick. She also added a Turkish Cup in 2011 and a Queen’s Cup in 2008 to her trophy cabinet while playing overseas.
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