Mar 18, 2013 | Basketball, Coach
Charles “Nig” Womack Womack, who was inducted into the Texas High School Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005, coached both boys and girls basketball and served as superintendent at Hawley High School from 1947 to 1979. His boys’ teams had a record of 896-127 and his...
Mar 18, 2013 | Coach, Track & Field
Wes Kittley Kittley, a state champion in the 880-yard run as a senior in high school at Rule, was an all-American at ACU. He took over as the women’s track coach at ACU in 1985 and then became the men’s coach, too. He won a record 29 NCAA Division II track...
Mar 18, 2013 | Coach, Football
Spike Dykes Dykes, a native of Ballinger, was a long-time high school and college coach in Texas. He spent the last 13 years of his career as the head football coach at Texas Tech, winning 82 games as the school’s second winningest football coach. He led the Red...
Mar 18, 2013 | Coach, Football
Art Briles Briles was a star athlete at Rule High School, quarterback his team to the Class B state finals in 1973 and leading the track team to a state championship in 1974. After head coaching stops at Hamlin and Georgetown, Briles engineered the “Decade of...
Mar 18, 2013 | Coach, Football
Randy Allen Abilene Cooper has played in only two state championship football games in school history, and Allen was involved in both. He played on the Cougars’ teams that reached the state finals in football in 1967 and baseball in 1968, and he then coached Cooper...
