Alice Barron, a 1992 inductee into the NFHS National High School Hall of Fame, was one of eight individuals selected this week for the 2022 class of the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.  

Barron was inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame for her exemplary 23-year career with the Jefferson County Public Schools in Golden, Colorado. She was the first female administrator chosen for the National High School Hall of Fame.  

Barron built the Jefferson County girls program from no sports in 1967 to 11 in 1989 with a $1 million budget. From 1975 to 1989, Jefferson County girls programs won 31 of 95 (32 percent) state 3A and 4A championships.  

She was president and served 10 years on the executive board of the Colorado Athletic Directors Association. From 1985 to 1990, she served a term on the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA) Board of Directors.  

Barron was selected for the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame as a result of her outstanding career as a high school athlete at Georgetown (Texas) High School and college basketball player at Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas.  

In four years at Wayland, her basketball team won 104 consecutive games and four national AAU championships. She was a member of the U.S. women’s basketball team that won the World Tournament in Brazil in 1957 and was a first team, AAU all-American.   

Barron will be inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame June 11 in Knoxville, Tennessee.