Julie Callahan Bauer
 | Contemporary Era: 2003 Inductee
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Callahan was Northwestern's first women's basketball player to earn All-America honors. She was named a third-team All-American by the American Women's Sports Federation her senior year when she averaged 20.6 points and 8.8 rebounds per game.
Callahan ranks sixth on Northwestern's all-time scoring list with 1,648 points. She was the Wildcats' all-time leading scorer until Anucha Browne eclipsed her mark in the 1984-85 season. Callahan was Northwestern's leading scorer her final three seasons -- 12.3 ppg as a sophomore, 14.6 ppg as a junior and then her 701-point season (20.6 ppg) as a senior. She is only the second player in NU history (the other is Browne) to score more than 700 points in a single campaign.
She shot 51.9 percent for her career and ranks in NU's top 10 for free throws made (337) and rebounds (778). Her 261 field goals in 1980-81 ranked second on NU's all-time single-season list at time of induction. Callahan still holds NU's single-game rebound record with 26 in a 1981 contest vs. Indiana.
In her final three seasons, Northwestern notched records of 25-4, 24-5 and 22-12. The Wildcats advanced to postseason play all three seasons.