Jun 21, 2017 | Athlete, Legacy Award, Track & Field
Rickey Parris was a four time NAIA national champion in the pole vault at McMurry, and his wife Pug Parris has taught at McMurry for nearly 40 years, currently serving as McMurry’s Director of Inter-Disciplinary Studies. She is the former chair of the kinesiology...
Jun 21, 2017 | Athlete, Track & Field
Mary Bolden-Washington of Hamlin was a three-time state champion in the long jump and 4×200 relay in high school and also won gold medals at the state meet in the 200, triple jump and 4×100 relay. She was the SEC champion in the 100 as a freshman at the...
May 23, 2016 | Athlete, Track & Field
Kim Bartee Fuentes of Albany was the Big Country Female Athlete of the Year in 1991. She won the high jump, took second as a member of the 800 and 1,600-meter relay teams and fourth on the 400 relay team to lead Albany to 1991 state track championship. She was...
May 23, 2016 | Coach, Legends, Track & Field
Margaret Ellison, who was born in Eastland, was the founder and coach of a women’s track and field club in Abilene in the early 1960s that revolutionized the sport. Her Texas Track Club became nationally famous with members of the team appearing on the cover of...
Jul 18, 2015 | Athlete, Coach, Track & Field
James Blackwood was a member of Abilene High’s 1959 state championship track team. He won the district and regional championships in the 880 and placed second in the state meet and ran on the mile relay. He received a track scholarship from Abilene Christian and ran...
Jul 18, 2015 | Athlete, Baseball, Legends, Track & Field
Faye Langford was from Breckenridge and was an AAU national champion in the javelin and played baseball with the Rockford Peaches in the All– American Women’s Professional Baseball League.
