CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Former University of Illinois women's basketball head coach Theresa Grentz – the program's all-time wins leader – has been elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2022 as announce by the organization on Saturday. The enshrinement ceremony is set for Sept. 10 in Springfield, Mass.

Grentz led the Fighting Illini program for 12 seasons (1995-96 through 2006-07), guiding the Orange and Blue to the 1997 Big Ten Championship. Her Illini squads reached postseason play in 10 of 12 years, including five NCAA Tournament berths highlighted by back-to-back Sweet 16 runs in 1997 and 1998.

Grentz tallied 210 of her 681 career wins during her tenure at Illinois. She began her career at Saint Joseph's (1974-76) and came to Illinois after 19 seasons on the sidelines for Rutgers (1976-95). Following her stint in Urbana-Champaign, Grentz served two more seasons as a head coach at Lafayette (2015-17).

Throughout her career, Grentz also made numerous contributions to USA Basketball, notably coaching the United States to the gold medal at the 1990 FIBA World Championships (now World Cup) and a bronze medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

Grentz won the 1982 AIAW National Championship with Rutgers after winning three consecutive AIAW titles as a student-athlete at Immaculata University from 1972-74. Playing under her maiden name of Theresa Shank, she was a three-time first-team All-American for the Immaculata "Mighty Macs", as well as the 1974 national player of the year, and she had her jersey No. 12 retired by the school. Alongside her Immaculata teammates, Grentz and the Mighty Mac were previously elected to the Naismith Hall of Fame as a group in the Class of 2014.

Grentz, a 2001 Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Inductee, becomes the just the sixth Illini to be enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame: