When nagging injuries derailed her dreams of playing on the D1 level out of Haltom High School, Flax turned disappointment into success.

Transferring from Oklahoma State University to the college midway through the 2010-11 season, Flax used a redshirt year to prepare for the following season. What a season it became.

She helped the Lady Cardinals, who had lost in the 2011 national title game with her on the bench as a spectator, to a perfect 36-0 record and NJCAA championship in 2012. Flax was named an NJCAA All-American.

Flax, who scored 21 points and hit five three-pointers in the national championship game, was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player, capping a season in which she averaged 16.7 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. She also hit 53.3 percent of her shots.

In the Lady Cardinals’ narrow 71-66 win against Pensacola State in the national semifinals, she scored 26 points.

Flax continued her playing career at the University of Central Missouri, where she became one of the top players in the program’s history. She averaged 19.9 points per game in her two-year career and was twice named All-American.

As a senior, she was named MIAA Player of the Year and joined the UCM 1,000-point club, needing just 54 games to do so, which is the fewest in the college’s history.

Flax was inducted into the Central Missouri Hall of Fame in 2019.

Cardinal Hall of Famer Kurt Budke (2008) originally signed Flax at Oklahoma State. When she transferred to the college, she played for Lady Cardinal co-head coaches Michael and Kenya Landers, both of whom were inducted into the Cardinal Hall of Fame in 2018.