Curtis BrysonInducted 2020 It’s hard to achieve all-state status as a Georgia high school athlete – always has been and probably always will be. There is little room at the top, as they say, and it is reserved for the best of the best. One Wacona sports legend...
Gary GriffinBeacon of Light Award 2022 The award was established by the SHOF Board of Directors to honor a local individual who emulated the traits of the late Rev. F.J. Beverly who served this community as a minister of the Gospel. The Rev. Beverly also served the...
Willie Character Beacon of Light Award 2020 Nice guys don’t always finish last. Willie Character, one of the nicest guys in the history of Waycross, is living proof of that. The lifelong music teacher and community civic servant who has banked a long line of good...
Cedric JonesInducted 2019 High school football in Waycross dates back to 1910. The forward pass has been in and out of vogue between 1910 and 2019. But suffice it to say there have been some accomplished pass catchers to come out of Waycross-Ware. And they all made...
McKinley WilliamsInducted 2019 When you play for a 0-10 football program, you get very little respect. Such was the plight of McKinley Williams, one of the best high school football players in Georgia in the late 1960s. As a ninth-grader at Ware County High in 1966,...
