Cookie Barron

• Played for the Wayland Baptist College (now University) Flying Queens without losing a game, going 104-0 (1954-1957)
• 3x AAU National Champion with Wayland Baptist (1955, 1956, 1957)
• Co-captain of the Flying Queens (1957)
• First Team AAU All-American (1957)
• Wayland's Outstanding Woman Athlete (1957)
• Made the game-winning free throws in triple overtime against Iowa to keep the Flying Queens' winning streak alive (1957)
• Won gold with Team USA at the World Championship in Rio de Janeiro, beating the Soviet Union in the final before 35,000 fans (1957)
• Taught and coached for eight years in the Clear Creek school district in Texas, where her students included daughters of several of the original seven astronauts
• Built the Jefferson County (Colo.) Public Schools girls' athletics program from no sports to 11 sports with a $1 million budget (1967-1989)
• Jefferson County girls' programs won 31 of 95 Colorado 3A and 4A state championships under her leadership (1975-1989)
• First woman in the Colorado Athletic Directors Association, later serving as president and on its executive board for 10 years
• First woman to serve on the Colorado High School Activities Association Board of Control
• Served on the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association Board of Directors (1985-1990) and on its membership committee for five years
• Retired as Coordinator of Athletics for Jefferson County Public Schools, Colorado's largest district, which by then offered girls and boys equal facility use, sports, levels of competition, and pay for officials (1991)
• First female administrator inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame (1992)