source: wbuathletics.com June 16, 2021 When Jason Cooper arrived on the Wayland Baptist University campus in 1997 to play basketball for the Pioneers, he had no clue about the rich history and tradition of the Flying Queens women’s basketball program. “I thought it was a pretty strange name and very unusual that the men’s and…
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source: wbuathletics.com After resigning as head coach of the Wayland Baptist Flying Queens to accept a similar position at Angelo State University, Alesha Ellis said leaving her hometown and the program she returned to being a national power in women’s basketball won’t be easy. “It’s definitely bittersweet. This is where I grew up. I have so many friends…
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May 16, 2021 To: Hutcherson Flying Queens Foundation Members and Associates And to Flying Queens’ supporters everywhere! From: Linda Pickens Price, President of the HFQF I am disappointed to have to relate that the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame has released the names of its Class of 2021 and neither Coach Redin nor…
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source: wbuathletics.com LUBBOCK – A working relationship and close friendship between Mark Adams and Rick Cooper that started at Wayland Baptist almost 40 years ago will continue at Texas Tech University. Cooper – the former WBU basketball player and coach who most recently served as the university’s director of athletics – has been named chief…
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scource: wbuathletics.com Four years as a player, five years as an assistant coach, six years as a head coach. It might seem fitting, then, that Rick Cooper – in his latest role as director of athletics at Wayland Baptist University – was on the job seven years. As he marks his final days as Wayland’s AD, Cooper…
Read Moresource: wbuathletics.com Four Wayland Baptist basketball players – Flying Queens Payton Brown, Kaylee Edgemon and Blakely Gerber, and Pioneer Tre Fillmore– have been nominated for Academic All-District honors, a program sponsored by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). To be eligible for nomination, student-athletes must be a sophomore or above and have been enrolled at their current institution…
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