May 9, 2022 | Impact Award
JIMMIE KEELING, former Hardin-Simmons football coach, is the third recipient of the Impact on Big Country Athletics Award. Hundreds of high school football coaches around the state got their start playing for Keeling. After a long high school coaching career that...
Nov 10, 2021 | Awards, Inductees, News
Please see the attached press release announcing our 2022 Big Country Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Class.
Jul 22, 2021 | Legacy Award
FREDDIE L. SCOTT coached football, basketball and tennis for 25 years in Sweetwater and is credited with talking the UIL into having team tennis as a fall sport. Both father and son are in the Texas Tennis Coaches Association Hall of Fame. FRED (DERF) W. SCOTT won a...
Jul 22, 2021 | Impact Award
Ron Butler was the athletic director at Ranger College for 32 years. He coached men’s basketball for 16 years, started the women’s basketball program in 1968 and coached that team for 18 years. He also started the...
Jul 22, 2021 | Lifetime Achievement for Media, Media
Mike Cochran played golf at Stamford for Gordon Wood, but became one of the most decorated reporters in Texas during a long career with the Associated Press and Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Although best known for covering moon shots, the Kennedy...
Jun 20, 2019 | Lifetime Achievement for Media, Media
Lance Kitchens, who has been in the broadcasting industry for 38 years, has been the “Voice of Buckaroo Sports” since 1984 in Breckenridge. When he was dismissed from the broadcasts by Palo Pinto Communications, the community of Breckenridge created such as uproar...
