Hazel Leona Walker was an amateur basketball player in the 1930s and 1940s.
12 Facts About Hazel Walker
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Hazel Walker is recognized as one of the greatest amateur basketball players of the era.
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Hazel Walker played professionally for the All American Red Heads Team, then left that organization to start her own barnstorming professional basketball team, the Arkansas Travelers.
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Hazel Walker was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001.
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Hazel Walker was born August 8,1914, to Herbert and Minnie Hazel Walker in the town of Ashdown AR.
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Hazel Walker attended Ashdown High School where she played forward.
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Hazel Walker won a scholarship to play at Tulsa Business College, a two-year school, whose team name was the Stenos.
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Hazel Walker joined the El Dorado, Arkansas Lion Oil AAU team that finished third in the national tournament in 1935, and second in 1936.
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Hazel Walker's marriage was discovered, but the company chairman, Col TH Barton, made an exception to the rule so that she could keep playing for the team.
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Hazel Walker was awarded first or second team All-American honors in eleven of her 14 years in AAU competition.
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Hazel Walker won the national event six times; in 1940 she hit 49 of 50 free throw attempts.
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In 1946, Hazel Walker joined Olson's All American Red Heads Team.