She was the first woman in NCAA history to score 3,000 points and at one time held the record for NCAA Division 1 women's basketball points scored in a career; the record has been successively broken by Patricia Hoskins, Jackie Stiles, Kelsey Plum, Brittney Griner, Kelsey Mitchell and most recently Caitlin Clark also surpassing Bauman's career total.
She scored 3,010 points in high school and led Des Moines East to Iowa state championship in 1979.
[5] Her total of 58 points against Missouri State in January 1984 was previously the NCAA single-game scoring record and is now tied for third on the all-time list.
In January 2006, ESPN.com rated Bauman's 50-point game against Maryland as one of the top 25 moments of NCAA Tournament history.
"[1]Source[9] In 2005, Bauman was inducted into the Des Moines Sunday Register's Iowa Sports Hall of Fame.
"[10] In 2009, she was inducted into the Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame and was selected as an MVC Institutional Great.