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…
Read MoreREDIN AND ODOM MISS SELECTION INTO NAISMITH’S 2021 CLASS
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…
Read MoreCOOPER, ADAMS TOGETHER AGAIN AT TEXAS TECH
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…
Read MoreCOOPER CALLS TIME AT WBU ‘A REAL BLESSING’
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 MoreFOUR BASKETBALL PLAYERS UP FOR ACADEMIC HONOR
source: 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…
Read MoreTHE IDLE AMERICAN, STEADY IN THE BOAT
By Don Newbury Note: The Hutcherson Flying Queens Foundation is pleased to share this article about longtime, steadfast Flying Queens associates, Danny and Carolyn Andrews. We hope you enjoy it, too! It’s an expression tossed about regularly. Calling it “trite” would be an understatement. The proverb originated in 12th century Germany and continues to apply….
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