Gerald, The Pat Gerald Family

Gerald, The Pat Gerald Family

First Legacy Award-The Pat Gerald Family The Gerald Family of Sweetwater was the first recipient of this award to honor an individual or group who made a lasting contribution to sports in the Big Country.  Pat Gerald, deceased,  was a long-time high school coach and...
Corn-Clark, Lynn

Corn-Clark, Lynn

Lynn Corn (Clark) Corn is considered one of the top girls basketball players to come out of the Big Country in the modern five-on-five era.  She was a first-team All-State selection in 1990 as she led Abilene Wylie to the Class 3A state championship.  Corn went on to...
Ash, Twyman

Ash, Twyman

Twyman Ash Ash was a two-year starter in football, basketball and baseball at Abilene High.  He was an all-state selection in football in 1954 and went on to play football at Rice University.  Ash is best remembered for his finger-tip catch for the winning...

McClure, Bill

Bill McClure McClure, a 1939 graduate of Abilene High, spent a 47-year career in athletics, beginning first as a coach at Stamford High School and then as an assistant and later head track coach at ACU, leaving to become the head track coach at both South Carolina and...
Stuard, Jack

Stuard, Jack

Jack Stuard Stuard was the fourth recipient of the Lifetime Achievement for Media, joining Bill Hart, Dallas Huston, and Bill Little. Stuard, a graduate of Abilene High, taught and served as an assistant principal in the AISD from 1955 until his retirement in 1990....