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 | Athlete, Track & Field
James Segrest Segrest, a member of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, was known as the “One Man Gang from Bangs” when he single-handedly scored 34 points at the 1954 Class A track and field state meet to win the state championship for Bangs. Segrest ran on relay teams...
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 | Athlete, Baseball
Chuck Harrison Harrison played football and baseball at Abilene High. He was a two-sport star at Texas Tech, playing defensive end in front of E.J. Holub. But Harrison is considered Tech’s first star in baseball. In 1962, he not only hit .440 but he sported a 1.020...
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...
