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…
Read MoreBEFORE 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…
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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