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SHERI HAYNES - INDUCTEE #104

hall of fame fast fact:

Sheri Lee Haynes has at least two people named for her. One of her McLean coaches, Joel Nelson, and his wife, Myrle, named daughter Sherika after her in 1977. Sherika played basketball at UT-San Antonio and is the head coach at Flower Mound. A niece, born in 1991, is Sheri Ann Haynes, who participates in basketball, tennis, softball, and track at McLean.

Sheri Haynes

Sheri Haynes played in the days of three-on-three, half-court basketball, and before the three-point shot. Haynes was recruited by the top-ranked school of the time: Delta State in Cleveland, Mississippi. Haynes played in Madison Square Garden and won a national title ring on the Penn State court in 1976.

As a sophomore, she transferred to Wayland Baptist. Haynes started on the Wayland team that advanced to the national tournament in Los Angeles in 1978.

Upon graduation, she made the New Orleans Pride team in the Women’s Professional Basketball League, but a knee injury kept her off the pro court.

Haynes was the Amarillo Globe-News Super Team Offensive Player of the Year in 1974. In 2000, she was named one of the 100 Sports Legends of the Panhandle.

Haynes started a coaching career as Marsha Sharp’s assistant at Lockney. Haynes became the head coach at
Roosevelt for nine years and assisted at Lubbock Monterey.

She taught in the Lubbock and Cooper school districts, adopted daughters, and moved back home in 2006 to help run the family ranch near McLean.