The Washington Post When Linda Price arrived on campus at Wayland Baptist College as a freshman in 1966, she encountered all of the prejudice against women that could be expected at a small, religious school in a farming town in the conservative Texas Panhandle. At Wayland, different sets of curfews meant she had an earlier…
Read MoreTINY TEXAS SCHOOL DESERVES CREDIT FOR BLAZING TRAILS FOR WOMEN
San Antonio Express-News The turning point in women’s sports might not have been the landmark Title IX legislation or even the rise of global superstars in women’s tennis and basketball. Rather, it might have taken place on the campus of a small, conservative, Southern Baptist college in a small Texas Panhandle town in the early…
Read MoreFLYING QUEENS’ SUCCESS WAS A GAME CHANGER FOR WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
LA Times The trip from Kingfisher County took five hours by car, across Oklahoma and down the Texas panhandle. A basketball star in high school, Kaye Garms had heard about a Baptist college near Lubbock that had a women’s team. She and another player wanted to try out. “The local banker’s wife drove us,” Garms…
Read MoreHARLEY REDIN RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FROM BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME
WBU Athletics SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame recognized former Wayland Baptist coach Harley Redin with one of its highest honors here Thursday night. Redin received the John W. Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honor outside of enshrinement into the Hall of Fame. And, hopefully, that’s next on the list….
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WILDA’S STORIES ON CLAUDE HUTCHERSON
Our next series will celebrate the life of Claude Hutcherson and a share with you details of his life as compiled by his wife, Wilda Hutcherson Redin. We plan to do another feature on Wilda. Their contributions to women’s basketball, Wayland, and to individual members of the Flying Queens program are immeasurable! We hope you…
Read MoreWAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY’S FLYING QUEENS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM AGAIN SEEKS NOMINATION FOR INDUCTION INTO THE NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME
Entry into the Hall of Fame Would Cement A Long, Rich History For Women’s College Team From West Texas From our last three attempts for the Flying Queens to be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, we learned that we had to aggressively and unrelentingly promote ourselves. We need “all hands-on deck” to…
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