Hall of Fame
An outstanding basketball player at LHU in the late 1950s, Eckman later earned a spot on two U.S. basketball teams in 1967 and 1968. While a coach at West Chester in 1969, she established the very first National Tournament for women's college basketball, an achievement that earned her a place in the first class of inductees to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tennessee.