Waycross-Ware County Sports Hall of Fame

Barbra Standley Pender – 2015

Barbra Standley Pender Inducted 2015 Senior leadership combined with raw athletic talent to give Waycross High a girls state basketball championship in 1978. But it might not have happened had not the Waycross Bulldogettes coveted the letter jackets received by the...

Vicki Cason Bollinger – 2015

Vicki Cason Bollinger Inducted 2015 Sharp-shooting Vicki Cason was “dead-eye” accurate from any given spot on the oor at Waycross High School. In 1969-70, her senior season, she helped carry the Bulldogettes to the brink of a state championship. In the state semifinal...

Fred Gibson – 2015

Fred Gibson Inducted 2015 Arguably the top lineman and running back in school history, Rusty Ganas and Tim McCray were both in inducted in 1991. Tonight, the man most would agree is the top wide receiver ever at Ware County High, Fred Gibson, enters the hall of fame....

Leodis McKelvin – 2015

Leodis McKelvin Inducted 2015 An All-State cornerback for Dan Ragle’s Ware County Gators, Leodis McKelvin moved on to successful college and pro careers. Coming into his own for his final two seasons at Ware, he earned a scholarship to Troy where he flourished. He was...

Jimmy Carter – 2015

Jimmy Carter Inducted 2015 Jimmy Carter was a football hero and a state track record holder in Ware County High School’s earliest days nearly six decades ago. He was one of the rst wave of athletic stars at the brand new Ware County High School which opened its doors...

Bobby Smith – 2014

Bobby Smith Inducted 2014 Bobby Smith grew up in Waycross, a product of the City Rec Department under Mickey and Berta Katkaveck and a football, basketball and track athlete at Waycross High. The starting noseguard on two Bulldog state championship teams (1960 and...

Dan Ragle – 2014

Dan Ragle Inducted 2014 Upon completion of a nine-year run (1999-2007) as the head football coach at Ware County High School, Dan Ragle emerged as the winningest coach in the history of Ware’s program with a record of 74-32-1. He became the third head coach at the...