Jim Foster guided the Mocs for five of his 40 years of coaching women's basketball. Prior to his stop in Chattanooga was an 11-year run at Ohio State. On Friday, September 6, Foster will be on of 10 people inducted into the Ohio State Hall of Fame.
 
Foster will be one of two former Buckeye coaches inducted this year and just the 14^th member of the women's basketball program.
 
The Pennsylvania native coached the Mocs from 2013-18 when he announced his retirement after 40 seasons. He guided Chattanooga to back-to-back 29-game win seasons, the most in school history, and four consecutive Southern Conference titles.
 
(from the Ohio State website)
Jim Foster coached 11 seasons at Ohio State from 2002-13. He put the women's basketball program back on the map, making the NCAA Tournament in 10 of his 11 seasons. Foster and the Buckeyes also enjoyed a run of six consecutive Big Ten Championships and four Big Ten Tournament titles. His .772 winning percentage (279-82) is the highest of any women's basketball coach in school history.

Foster helped develop some of the best players in the program's history. Jessica Davenport (2004-07) was the program's first three-time All-American. She scored 2,303 points and grabbed 1,094 career rebounds. Jantel Lavender was also a three-time All-American and became the first player, male or female, in the Power 5 conferences to be named conference player of the year four times. Samantha Prahalis was a four-time All-Big Ten point guard. She scored more than 2,000 career points and still holds the Big Ten record with 901 assists which is 11th in NCAA history.
 
Foster, a Pennsylvania native, also coached at Saint Joseph's, Vanderbilt and Chattanooga where he amassed 903 career wins which currently ranks seventh in NCAA history. He is the only coach to take four different programs to the NCAA Tournament. Foster was elected to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame as a member of the class of 2013 and in 2018, after 40 years on the bench, he announced his retirement. Last year he was inducted into the St. Joseph's Hall of Fame.
 
The Class of 2019 will be officially inducted at a dinner Sept. 6 in the Ohio Union and introduced to the public at halftime of the Ohio State home football game vs. Cincinnati Sept. 7.
 
Tickets for the dinner are now on sale. To register, fans can go online to go.osu.edu/OSU19HOF or call 614-292-2281. Each ticket is $100 and includes cocktail hour and dinner.
 
The Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame was created in 1977 and has inducted 436 athletes, coaches and administrators through 2018.