News Articles – 2001 Part Three
Home town celebrates with athletic legend
By MATT PRICE
Great Bend Tribune
4/15/01
It was an intimate crowd of more than 2,000 people who came out Saturday, despite the threatening clouds, to honor Jackie Stiles on a day that was all hers. More than 62 floats traveled the parade route from Second Street and Hamilton to Claflin High School,..
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Stiles holds court on her day
Great Bend Tribune
CLAFLIN — Maybe it was more appropriate that a little rain Saturday forced the “Jackie Stiles Day” festivities from the football field to the Claflin High School gymnasium. After all, it was inside the gym where the Stiles legend grew,..
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Jackie honored in Claflin
By Mike Berry
Wichita Eagle
4/15/01
CLAFLIN, Kan. — Jackie Stiles scored big again Saturday, as hundreds of her fans flocked to her hometown to pay tribute to the basketball phenom who holds the title of top scorer in NCAA women’s college basketball history. “Wow, what an unbelievable day you have given me!” Stiles said to an overflow crowd in the gym where the 5-foot-8 shooting guard got her start at record-setting performances.
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Back where it began: Claflin honors its hero
Springfield News-Leader
4/15/01
CLAFLIN, Kan. — There was great joy in Jackie-ville on Saturday. After celebrating its hometown hero’s record-breaking basketball success from afar this year, Claflin finally got to throw a big-hearted, welcome-home party for Jackie Stiles. Claflin Mayor Barbara Logan declared April 14, 2001,
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Claflin stages Stiles show
CLAFLIN — Back in 1997, Jackie Stiles’ basketball exploits in Claflin had spectators hanging from the rafters at the high school’s 2,000-seat gymnasium. On Saturday, Stiles packed the hometown house one more time at a community tribute to the first-team All-America selection who last season became the leading scorer in NCAA women’s basketball history.
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Scenes from the Stiles celebration
Hutchinson News
4/15/01
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Memories of ‘Jackie’ treasured
Lawrence Journal-World
4/02/01
Every once in a while a sports writer is lucky enough to cover a young athlete before the individual hits the big time. You watch the athlete progress through a local high school, chart progress at the major-college level and wonder if he or she will make it as a pro. You tell your colleagues, and anybody else who’ll listen, “I knew them when …
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The night the lights went out on Jackie
After traveling thousands of miles, giving a million interviews, taking a billion shots, scoring 3,393 points and getting discovered by America, it was finally time for Jackie Stiles to rest.
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With WNBA ahead, we haven’t seen the last of Stiles
Kansas City Star
3/31/01
ST. LOUIS — Jackie Stiles made a plea to WNBA teams after Southwest Missouri State’s 81-64 loss to Purdue. “Please, somebody take me,” Stiles said, “so this doesn’t have to be my last basketball game.” Uh, she doesn’t have anything to worry about in that department. WNBA teams already coveted the sweet-shooting Stiles,…
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Claflin bears down to cheer Stiles on
Wichita Eagle
3/31/01
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Going in Stiles: This Final Four about one person
Sorry about everything Notre Dame and Connecticut. Same for you Purdue. This Women’s Final Four is all about Jackie. No matter how many titles are gathered in St. Louis for the NCAA’s 20th annual event for the women — and there a combined three between Purdue and Connecticut
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Stiles Turns Game of Basketball Into a Work of Art
Washington Post
3/30/01
Jackie Stiles is a terrible influence. Thanks to her, there’s going to be an unfortunate run on frosted blue eye shadow. Also on earnestness, and quirky superstitions. Little girls everywhere are going to copy her drug store makeup, and tape up the shoulders of their jerseys, and wear kneepads.
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Stiles takes center stage at Final Four
Miami Herald
3/30/01
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Jackie Stiles, Pride of Claflin, Kan. (Pop. 600)
New York Times
3/30/01
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Record-setting Jackie Stiles aims for NCAA title
ST. LOUIS — Somewhere in between the 30-point games in middle school and the shot that gave her the all-time NCAA career scoring mark this season, The Legend of Jackie Stiles grew legs. Stiles’ tale is worthy of axeman Paul Bunyan or steel-drivin’ man John Henry.
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