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…
Read Moresource: wbuathletics.com After two of the most impressive back-to-back performances in recent Flying Queens history, Wayland Baptist’s Kaitlyn Edgemon has been named Sooner Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Week. In home conference games last week against Central Christian and Langston, Edgemon, second-year freshman (due to COVID) from Littlefield, recorded a triple-double then followed…
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The Hutcherson Flying Queens Foundation was recently notified that Cindy Wiginton Cross, Flying Queen from 1964-65, died on Dec. 26, 2020. Cindy grew up and attended Friendship School in Oklahoma and lead her Class B Basketball team to a state championship in 1963. She received a scholarship to play basketball for the Flying Queens at Wayland…
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