Apr 11, 2014 | Athlete, Basketball, Track & Field
JimAnne Baker Hejny of Cisco won 13 individual gold medals and 2 gold team medals at the State Track Meet in her career in the 100, 200, 400, Long and Triple Jump and relay teams. The Lady Loboes, led by Baker, won the Class 2A state track team championship in 2001...
Mar 18, 2013 | Coach, Track & Field
Barbara Crousen Crousen spent 32 years coaching high school track, including a stint at Abilene Cooper, before joining McMurry University in 1998. She still serves as the men’s and women’s track coach at McMurry. During her time at Cooper, she served as president of...
Mar 18, 2013 | Athlete, Track & Field
Jonathan Johnson Johnson of Abilene High broke the state high school Class 5A record in the 800 meters when he won the event in 1:48.21 in 2001. He then anchored the mile relay to a gold medal, leading the Eagles to the Class 5A state team championship. At Texas...
Mar 18, 2013 | Athlete, Inductees, Track & Field
Dean Smith Smith was an all-state running back at Graham and played football and ran track at the University of Texas. He was a halfback on the Longhorns’ team that beat Tennessee in the Cotton Bowl. In 1952, he was a gold medalist on the United States’...
Mar 18, 2013 | Athlete, Track & Field
Bruce Land Land of Hawley unofficially broke or tied the 100-yard dash world record seven times during his track career. After earning all-American honors at Cisco Junior College, he ran track at McMurry and is a member of that school’s Hall of Fame. He qualified...
Mar 18, 2013 | Coach, Track & Field
Bill McClure McClure, a 1939 graduate of Abilene High, spent a 47-year career in athletics, beginning first as a coach at Stamford High School and then as an assistant and later head track coach at ACU, leaving to become the head track coach at both South Carolina and...
