BURNSVILLE, Minn. – Former University of Minnesota Duluth women's basketball All-American Lindsey Dietz will be inducted into the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) Hall of Fame on Tuesday, July 11 as part of the league's annual Summer Kickoff event in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
 
Dietz becomes UMD's 23^rd inductee into the NSIC Hall of Fame and the first since 2017 when former men's basketball All-American Nicky Johnson was inducted.

Along with the Dietz, the NSIC Hall of Fame class of 2023 includes:
2011 Augustana Women's Cross Country Team
Mary (Slinger) Heiken, Concordia St. Paul
Jennifer (Hensel) Jahnke, Minnesota State Moorhead
Jake Hamik, Northern State 
Laura (Lundbohm) Hulsebus, Southwest Minnesota State 
Logan Masters, Wayne State 
Jonte Flowers, Winona State 
 
Dietz was a dominant force for the UMD women's basketball team from 2002 to 2006. She is one of just two Bulldogs, to be named a Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-American multiple times and the first Bulldog women's player to lead the team in scoring four straight seasons. She is one of three players in program history to eclipse 2,000 points in her career (2,114) in 104 games (20.3 ppg) and still owns eight school records, including field goal accuracy in a single season (.664 set in 2005-06), free throws made (184) and attempted (238) in a season, consecutive made FTs (43) and most free throws made (578) and attempted (721) in a career.
 
The Elk River, Minnesota native earned a spot on the NCAA Division II Kodak/WBCA All-America First Team for the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons and landed three consecutive Daktronics All-American citations. She was also a four-time member of the North Central All-Region team. She was voted the NSIC Freshman of the Year in 2002-03, the Player of the Year in 2003-04 and was NSIC Tournament's Most Valuable Player in 2003.
 
Dietz became UMD's first two-time recipient of the prestigious ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Player of the Year Award. She received both the UMD Outstanding Senior Female Athlete Award and the E.L. "Duce" Rasmussen Top Female Scholar-Athlete Award and was one of the 30 finalists for the NCAA Woman of the Year in 2006. Following her playing career she served as a UMD student assistant women's basketball coach for two years.
 
Dietz, who possesses both a B.S. and master's degree in mathematics and a Ph.D. in statistics, works at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis as a Data Science Manager. In 2022, she was named a Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal 40 under 40 honoree.
 
The induction ceremony will be held Tuesday, July 11 at the Best Western Plus Ramkota in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at the NSIC's annual Summer Kickoff event. A social will begin at 5:30 p.m. followed by the ceremony at 6:00 p.m. Reserve your tickets for the banquet by visiting https://northernsun.org/HOFBanquet and filling out the online Hall of Fame Banquet Registration Form. Registrations are due no later than July 1, as space is limited for this event.