Jan 29, 2025 | Athlete, Basketball, Inductees, News
The Big Country Athletic Hall of Fame is mourning the death of 2004 inductee and longtime benefactor Max Williams, who passed away on Monday, January 27 in Dallas. Max grew up in Avoca and led his high school team to a state basketball championship. He was an...
May 1, 2024 | Baseball, Basketball, Golf, Inductees, Legacy Award
This year’s Pat Gerald Memorial Legacy Award recipient is the ESTES FAMILY. Their legacy began with Bob, who was a star running back on Abilene High’s first football team to reach the state championship game in 1922. His son Tommy played football and basketball...
May 1, 2024 | Athlete, Basketball, Inductees
Peyton (Little) Decker was one of the top basketball prospects in the nation when she came out of Wylie High School. Little scored over 3,000 points in her high school career and led the Lady Bulldogs to the state tournament in 2010 and state championships in 2011 and...
May 1, 2024 | Athlete, Basketball, Inductees
Frank Biggers, a 6’3” forward, played basketball for the Wallace Wildcats, a small segregated African American school in Colorado City before integration. Wallace won five state championships from 1959 to 1966. Biggers was named all-state as a sophomore in 1962,...
Feb 2, 2024 | Athlete, Basketball, Inductees, Legends
HAROLD HUDGENS graduated from Ballinger High School in 1957. He then went to Texas Tech on a basketball scholarship and was an all-Southwest Conference selection while with the Red Raiders. The 6’10” Hudgens was inducted into the Texas Tech Hall of Honor in 2006...
Jan 11, 2024 | Basketball, Inductees, News
The Big Country Athletic Hall of Fame hosted a book signing event promoting Hall of Fame inductee Max Williams’ new book, The Last Shot, on November 18, 2023. Williams, an Avoca native, now lives in the Dallas area and this recently published book chronicles...
