$100 and 100 cards for 100 years The letter posted below about the $100 DOLLARS and 100 CARDS FOR 100 YEARS campaign was sent to many of you via the US mail on July 22, 2019. If you did not receive it, it means that you, or your correct address, are not on our mailing…
Read MoreFULL COURT PRESS TO #INDUCTTHEFLYINGQUEENS
Head over to Twitter and follow @WBUFlyingQueens. Please retweet our Tweets and post some of your own. When you do so tag @HoopHall and use #InductTheFlyingQueens. Here are some messages you can use on your own account: The Flying Queens need your help! Please RT! #Inducttheflyingqueens @hoophall. It is time. http://bit.ly/FQVideo Beat the buzzer! The Flying…
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BEFORE THERE WAS U-CONN., THE WAYLAND BAPTIST QUEENS RULED THE BASKETBALL COURT
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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