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...
Feb 2, 2024 | Athlete, Golf, Inductees
MIKE STANDLY played on a state championship golf team at Abilene Cooper and a national championship team at the University of Houston. During his senior year at the University of Houston, Standly was named an all-American. He played on the PGA Tour from 1986-2010,...
May 9, 2022 | Athlete, Golf
TREY TODD won back-to-back individual Class 3A state championships in golf at Wylie High School in 2001 and 2002. He then became a four-year letterman at Texas A&M, where he had two top-10 finishes and eight top-25 finishes. He graduated in 2008 with a master’s...
Mar 18, 2013 | Athlete, Golf
Judy Casey Casey, a graduate of Abilene High, is one of the best female golfers to come out of the Big Country. She was a three-time Texas Publinx champion and also won the Women’s West Texas Golf Championship three times. She won the Louisiana State Amateur...
Mar 18, 2013 | Athlete, Golf
John Paul Cain Cain, a four-year letterman in golf at Texas Tech, was the 1959 Texas Amateur champion and played Ben Crenshaw in the finals of the 1973 Trans-Mississippi Mid-Amateur. After a lengthy career as a stockbroker and amateur golfer, Cain from Sweetwater...
Mar 18, 2013 | Athlete, Golf
Billy Maxwell Maxwell was a graduate of St. Joseph Academy of Abilene. He won the U.S. Amateur golf tournament in 1951 and was a member of two national championship golf teams at North Texas State. He played on the PGA and Senior PGA Tour before retiring from...
