with a record eleven team championships since 1993, with the most recent championships coming back to back in 2017 and 2018.
In 2014, the athletics program was awarded the inaugural Lone Star Conference Women's Academic Excellence Award, given to the member institution with the highest team G.P.A. As of 2015, the Pioneers have a 65-semester (more than thirty years) of posting a department G.P.A. of 3.0 or higher by all student-athletes.
== Notable alumni ==
Berenice Mallory (B.A. 1923), home economics professor, federal official
Caro Crawford Brown (B.A. 1925), winner of Pulitzer Prize for local reporting in 1955 for the Alice (Texas) Daily Echo
Vara Martin Daniel - American educator and former First Lady of Guam
Margaret Virginia (Margo) Jones (B.A. 1932) and (M.A. 1933), pioneer in the American Resident Theater Movement and author of Theater In The Round; directed the world premiere of Inherit the Wind by Lawrence and Lee in Dallas in 1955
Lou Halsell Rodenberger (B.S. 1943), scholar of Texas women authors, …
