The Flying Queens had experience seven consecutive years of frustration, finishing in the top five nationally but just short of the AAU national championship, when Cherri Rapp arrived at Wayland in 1968.  After a third-lace finish in the 1968-69 tournament, Rapp helped the Queens to back-to-back AAU titles.  She was named Most Valuable Player at the 1969 national tournament, and establishing herself as one of the premier women's players in the nation, and was named to AAU All-American teams in 1970, 1971, and 1972.  She finished her career with 1,348 career points, 13^th on Wayland's career scoring list.

She then went on to compete on United States national teams for eight seasons.  She was a participant in the World Games in Brazil in 1970-71 and the Pan American Games in 1970-71 and 1974-75.  She was an alternate on the 1976 U.S. Olympic team that played in Montreal.

She was captain of the country's World Games team that won the silver medal in Moscow in 1973, and the captain of the 1975 Pan American Games team that won the gold medal in Mexico City.
Also an excellent student, Rapp was Wayland's Citizen of the Year, highest ranking graduating student, Homecoming Queen, and Vice President of the Student Government Association in 1972.

After completing her Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics at Wayland in 1972, Rapp earned the Master of Arts degree from the University of Texas in 1975.  She served as head women's basketball and tennis coach at North Texas State University from 1976-79, and head women's basketball coach at Texas A&M University from 1979-84.  Rapp coached the U.S. Junior Team at the U.S. Olympic Sports Festival in 1980, the U.S. National Junior Team in Taiwan in 1981, and coached part-time at the University of Texas fro 1987-91.