Hall of Fame
Laurie Turner capped her three seasons in a Cougar uniform by earning All-American honors, along with Jeanne Eggart, the first women’s basketball players to receive the honor. Her senior year, 1979, was her finest as she scored 13.7 points and grabbed 6.0 rebounds, while recording 57 assists and 57 steals. That same season she scored a then-WSU record 29 points against Seattle University and later was named to the All-Northwest Basketball League second team and to the National Scouting Association AIAW Region IX All-America team. After her playing career was over at WSU, she and Harold Rhodes (later a WSU head coach) were assistants to head coach Sue Durrant before Turner was named head coach at Eastern Oregon State College. At Eastern Oregon Turner added head volleyball coaching duties and later became the athletic director, the start of her career in athletic administration. In 1986 she was named the head basketball coach at the University of Idaho before returning to athletic administration as the director of athletics at Pacific Lutheran University.
