NEW YORK, N.Y. (Feb. 19, 2019) - The City University of New York Athletic Conference is excited to announce that five-time Olympic basketball player and National Basketball Hall of Famer Teresa Edwards will join Friday's broadcast of the 2019 CUNYAC Men's and Women's Basketball Championships.

Edwards will work alongside long-time CUNYAC play-by-play announcer Ralph Bednarczyk and color analyst Sean Couch to deliver a one-of-a-kind experience at the Hunter Sportsplex in New York City. Edwards will provide her over 30 years of experience at the collegiate and professional level to the CUNYAC's worldwide broadcasts on Facebook Live. She also served as a guest analyst at the CUNYAC Community College Basketball Championships last Friday at BMCC.

"“I’m honored to be taking part in a small way, yet enjoying the show of talent on the floor in big moments,“ Edwards said. "“The potential and intensity was unexpected and it’s been a pleasant surprise to see talent that can be compared to any other division at the collegiate level.”

"We are so thankful that a person of Teresa's stature can be a role model to our student-athletes at the Division III level," stated CUNYAC Executive Director Zak Ivkovic. "Her presence and knowledge will greatly benefit and enhance our broadcasts on Facebook Live."

Edwards won gold as a member of Team USA at four Olympic Games -- 1984 (Los Angeles), 1988 (Seoul), 1996 (Atlanta) and 2000 (Sydney). She was also the recipient of a bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona.

Edwards' experience on the international stage didn't stop there. She played professionally in multiple countries upon her graduation from University of Georgia, including Italy, Japan, Spain and France.

A four-year starter at Georgia, where she led the Bulldogs to a pair of Women's Final Four appearances, Edwards went on to play professionally for the now-defunct American Basketball League's Atlanta Glory and Philadelphia Rage. She was drafted by the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx in 2003.

Additionally, Edwards is the first female basketball player to have appeared in five Olympics and holds the unique distinction of being the youngest and oldest gold medalist in the history of the sport. To date, Edwards still holds the single-game scoring record for a women's basketball game in the United States with 46 points.

She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011 and the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2013. In 2000, Sports Illustrated tabbed Edwards as "100 Greatest Female Athletes of the 20th Century".