The Later Years
As the years went on into the 1960s and ‘70s, three teams traveled the countryside, and players such as Charlotte Adams, Glenda Hall, Kay O’Bryan, and Jolene Ammons became player coaches. Orwell Moore would even start a basketball camp for girls called Camp Courage. This allowed his players to stay involved in basketball during the off-season and make a living at what they loved, while helping teach middle and high school girls the fundamentals of basketball. Some of the girls that attended this camp while in high school would eventually go on to play for the Red Heads.
The Red Heads played until 1986 and continue to have reunions to this day. The most recent was in Little Rock, Ark., in June of 2005. Fifty players from all over the country, spanning more than 40 years, attended. Many of the team’s artifacts are on display at the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tenn., including a 30-foot limousine they toured America in.
By John Molina
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