Waycross-Ware County Sports Hall of Fame

Cedric Jones – 2019

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 Williams – 2019

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,...

Katherine Meeks Love – 2019

Katherine Meeks LoveInducted 2019 When Kathy Meeks was a junior at Waycross High, she and her basketball teammates lost in the 1977 state finals by a heartbreaking two points to Cherokee County. A year later, though, they kicked down the door to win the first state...

Kelly Durham Brown – 2019

Kelly Durham BrownInducted 2019 Kelly Durham Brown, a four-year starter and leader in two varsity sports at Ware County High School in the 1980s, went onto play college basketball and win accolades at two different schools. A high-scoring point guard, she sparked the...

Kennsel Bennett – 2019

Kennon TaylorInducted 2019 Kennsel Bennett — a 6-foot-8 basketball center — was made for the low post. In high school and in college he was a scoring and rebounding machine. A true power player, he crashed the boards with abandon and was hard to stop as a scoring...

Kennon Taylor – 2018

Kennon Taylor Inducted 2018 Early during the decade of the 1970s, quarterback Kennon Taylor rewrote the passing records at Waycross High… and he did it again at Marion Military Institute… and then did the same at Arkansas State University. Before...