track and field athlete for Wayland Baptist University, ran for Jamaica in the 1988 Summer Olympics. Also, he won the IAAF indoor world championship with a 400 time of 45.49 sec.
Marshall Nelson, basketball player
Grady Nutt, Baptist preacher and humorist
Lometa Odom, women's basketball player
Brandon Schneider, current women's head basketball coach at The University of Kansas; previously at Stephen F. Austin State University and Emporia State University
Marsha Sharp, former head coach of the Texas Tech Lady Raiders basketball team, graduated in 1974 from Wayland.
== See also ==
Baptist General Convention of Texas
List of state and other conventions associated with the Southern Baptist Convention
List of Southern Baptist Convention affiliated people
== References ==
== Further reading ==
Festle, Mary Jo (1996). Playing nice: politics and apologies in women's sports. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-10162-7.
Ikard, Robert W. (2005). Just for Fun: The Story of AAU Women's Basketball. The University …
