Hazel Walker

Hazel Walker

Class of 2001

  • Was a 7-time AAU All-American over her amateur career
  • Played for five different teams during her 14-year amateur career
  • Won an AAU national championship with the Tulsa Business College Stenos (1934)
  • Won three AAU national championships with Little Rock's Lewis and Norwood Flyers (1937, 1940, 1941)
  • Posted four runner-up finishes and advanced to the Final Four three additional times during her amateur career
  • Won the National Free Throw Championship six times (1938, 1939, 1940, 1943, 1945, 1946)
  • Named the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year (1940)
  • Named Most Valuable Player of the AAU National Tournament (1942)
  • Won a pair of International Free Throw titles (1944, 1945)
  • Played three seasons of professional basketball with Olson's All American Red Heads (1946-1949)
  • Founded and starred for her own barnstorming squad, Hazel Walker's Arkansas Travelers, which played only men's teams using men's rules (1949-1965)
  • Was involved in professional basketball for a total of 19 years
  • Playing career spanned 37 years, from high school until her retirement as a professional player at age 51 (1928-1965)

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