Waycross-Ware County Sports Hall of Fame

Fosteen Banks – BOLA 2019

Fosteen BanksBeacon of Light Award 2018 Over a period of decades, Fosteen Banks has given of her time, talents, efforts and resources to the community, in particular the school children. For many years, when it was time to ring the supper bell (school club dinners,...

Marian Fesperman Block – 2018

Marian Fesperman Block Inducted 2018 When Marian Fesperman entered high school at Southwood School in 1979, the Lady Warriors varsity basketball program got the upgrade of its history. The multi- talented athlete and her teammates joined the state GISA championship...

David Whitaker – 2017

David Whitaker Inducted 2017 David Whitaker was an ace pitcher and a slugger for Coach James Conoly’s Ware County High Gators in the 1980s, batting over .400 three seasons straight, hitting a school record (at the time) seven home runs in the 11th grade, striking out...

Tony Tanner – 2017

Tony Tanner Inducted 2017 Ware County High School rolled almost all the way through the state playoffs in 1978 behind the quarterbacking of Tony Tanner. Tanner, a three-year starter who Coach Bruce Bennett would equate to being “like a coach on the field,” was at the...

Dustin Hudson – 2017

Dustin Hudson Inducted 2017 A versatile athlete, Dustin Hudson was good enough as a freshman to start in baseball and football. A ninth-grader during the final year of Waycross High, he started at line- backer in the fall and clubbed six homers in the spring. Moving...