Former Old Dominion star dies

Anne Donovan, a basketball Hall of Famer who won a national championship at Old Dominion, two Olympic gold medals in the 1980s and coached the U.S. to gold in 2008, died Wednesday of heart failure. She was 56.

Donovan’s family confirmed the death in a statement.

Donovan, a 6-foot-8 center, was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995, was part of the inaugural class of the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999 and was inducted in the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2015.

She became the first female coach and the youngest person (42) to win a title in the WNBA, guiding the Seattle Storm to a championship in 2004, and also coached the Indiana Fever, the Charlotte Sting, New York Liberty and Connecticut Sun.

The New Jersey native coached at Seton Hall for two seasons.