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Louise O’Neal, one of the inaugural inductees into the Connecticut Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, left, congratulates Eastford's Lauren Anderson who was inducted into the Hall of Fame April 21. In accepting the honor, Anderson said, "I think I am fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time. I played and coached before women’s basketball players were allowed to run the length of the court; before there were post-season championships; before female teachers were paid to coach; before there were women’s basketball scholarships; and long-before there was a WNBA draft! Although you probably think I should regret my timing, I don’t, because I played and coached women’s basketball at its most dynamic time. No other sport for women has changed as much as this one has in such a short period of time, or, for that matter, ever — not tennis or softball, not field hockey, volleyball, or soccer, not even track and field. So to be included in this hall of fame, along with all of the previous inductees who brought women’s basketball from a marginal event to a major event, is a distinct honor.” Courtesy photo.