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…
Read MoreIT IS TIME. #INDUCTTHEFLYINGQUEENS
As you all know, it is time to induct the Wayland Baptist University Flying Queens. There is not a basketball program in the country with a history like ours, the time is now. Help us get The Queens to Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame! #WBUFlyingQueens#InductTheFlyingQueens MORE AT THE LINK: INDUCT THE FLYING QUEENS – IT IS TIME
Read MoreBefore UConn, There was Wayland – New York Times
NYT – Before UConn, There was Wayland New York Times Although UConn can match U.C.L.A.’s major-college record of 88 consecutive victories Sunday against Ohio State at Madison Square Garden, the Huskies remain far short of the 131 straight games that Wayland Baptist won from 1953 to ’58 — a streak that began early in the first term…
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SPORTS ILLUSTRATED: FLYING QUEENS
FROM THE VAULT When Sports Illustrated wrote a story on the Flying Queens BASKETBALL’S FLYING QUEENS Dec. 9th, 1957 The world of girls’ basketball has never, until now, seen anything like this attractive winning crew—the Hutcherson Flying Queens of little Wayland College in Plainview, Texas. Descending from the skies in Beechcraft Bonanzas (hence the “Flying”)…
Read MoreOLYMPIC-SIZED FRUSTRATION: ‘IT WAS JUST DEVASTATING…”
Olympic-sized frustration: ‘It was just devastating…” Coach Jill Schneider recalls how boycott ended team I remember hearing our national anthem in Korea and how much pride I felt, and being part of the opening ceremonies at the Pan Am Games and how chilling that was, and I could hardly imagine how much better it would…
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