Hall of Fame
Katrina Anderson Sacoco played on the 1975-76 and 1976-77 back-to-back national championship women’s basketball teams and went on to play for the New Orleans Pride ('79-80) and Dallas Diamonds ('80-81) in the Women’s Professional Basketball League (WBL).
The Timmonsville, S.C., native averaged more than 18.6 points per game during her freshman campaign as the Trojanettes posted an impressive 38-2 record en route to claiming their third consecutive national title. Anderson Sacoco served as a team co-captain for the 1976-77 season and poured in a combined 78 points in a pair of double-digit wins past future Southeastern Conference teams South Carolina and Georgia.
She went on to play at South Carolina, becoming USC's first women's basketball All-America player, earning the honor in both 1978 and 1979. She remains the USC school record-holder for points scored in a single season, as she scored a school-record 754 points in 1977-78. She also holds the single-season school record for free throws attempted, rebounds, rebounding average and steals. Her career average of 20.5 points per game ranks as the second-highest mark in school history. She still ranks among the top 10 in USC history in 11 offensive categories and has been inducted into the University of South Carolina Hall of Fame after tallying 1,454 career points.
Anderson Sacoco coached at Lander University, compiling a 120-81 record over a seven-year span, reached the 20-win mark three times and earned Palmetto State Conference Coach of the Year honors in 1990-91.
