Category: Awards

source: wbuathletics.com For her outstanding efforts both on the court and in the classroom, Wayland Baptist Flying Queen Kaylee Edgemon has been named CoSIDA Academic All-American. Edgemon, who previously was named CoSIDA Academic All-District, was voted to the Academic All-America Second Team by the College Sports Information Directors of America. The program recognizes the nation’s top student-athletes for…

source: wbuathletics.com Wayland Baptist senior Kaylee Edgemon repeated as Sooner Athletic Conference Player of the Year while teammates Jenna Cooper, Kaitlyn Edgemon and Angel Hayden also were honored on the All-SAC Women’s Basketball Team. Kaylee Edgemon and Cooper were voted to the First Team for the second year in a row, Kaitlyn Edgemon made the…

source: wbuathletics.com Former Wayland Baptist Flying Queen Alice “Cookie” Barron has been voted to the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame. Barron, who helped establish the Flying Queens’ national record 131-game winning streak in the 1950s, was one of eight people named as the Class of 2022, along with former West Texas A&M coach Bob Schneider….

source: wbuathletics.com Because basketball was the main reason that Wayland Baptist University came into her life, one might expect that Dr. Sylvia Nadler was being inducted into the WBU Harley Redin Athletics Hall of Honor as a result of her prowess on the basketball court. That’s not the case; her success was off the court…

source: wbuathletics.com Flying Queens Jolie Donaldson, Payton Brown, and Kaylee Edgemon and the Flying Queens basketball team were among a dozen Wayland Baptist teams and 34 WBU individuals have been recognized as NAIA Scholar Teams and Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athletes. The recognition is based on the 2020-21 academic year. With 3.54 grade point averages, the men’s…