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...
Jun 20, 2019 | Impact Award
Myrle Greathouse was a two-way all-state player at linebacker and running back at Amarillo High, helping the Sandies win a state championship in 1940. Following his service in World War II, he was a three-year letterman in football at the University of Oklahoma under...
Jun 13, 2018 | Lifetime Achievement for Officiating, Official
Mike Morris, a graduate of Abilene Cooper, is the seventh official to be a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement for Officiating in the Big Country Athletic Hall of Fame and the first baseball umpire. He has reached the pinnacle of collegiate baseball umpiring by...
