by Jonathan Petty, director of communications, Wayland Baptist University Members of the Hutcherson Flying Queens Foundation (HFQF) gathered with Wayland Baptist University officials, the WBU Flying Queens basketball team and members of the community Saturday morning at the Jimmy Dean and Llano Estacado Museum to break ground on the Flying Queens Museum. A project driven…
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source: wbuathletics.com Behind another strong offensive showing and one of their stingiest defensive efforts of the season, the Wayland Baptist Flying Queens secured the second outright Sooner Athletic Conference title in program history, ending the regular-season with a 107-45 victory over North Texas-Dallas on Saturday afternoon at Hutcherson Center. “It was a great way to…
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AUSTIN – The Texas Historical Foundation, a 68-year-old preservation organization, has awarded a $5,000 grant to the Hutcherson Flying Queens Foundation for the Flying Queens Museum Project. Funds will be used for digitizing game films from the 1950s to mid-1980s. “On behalf of the Hutcherson Flying Queens Foundation, it is an honor to receive this…
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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….
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source: wbuathletics.com The Hutcherson Flying Queens Foundation (HFQF) will break ground on the Flying Queens Museum at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 19 at the Mabee Regional Heritage Center on the Wayland Baptist University campus. The museum will tell the story of the Hutcherson Flying Queens and the women involved who were successful in all walks of…
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Susan Britton Allison Ford died Sunday, February 6, 2022, at her home in Celina, Texas, after a long battle with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP.) She was 72 years old. Susan Kathryn Britton was born on November 10, 1949, in Lubbock to Harold and Louanne Britton of Earth, Texas. She grew up playing basketball at Springlake-Earth High…
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