Waycross-Ware County Sports Hall of Fame

Edwin Lastinger – 2016

Edwin Lastinger Inducted 2016 An All-State football player and team captain for the 1976 Bruce Bennett-coached Ware County Gators, Edwin Lastinger played in some of the biggest games in the history of the Green, White and Gold. A senior in ’76, he led the rushing...

Arias Davis – 2016

Arias Davis Inducted 2016 Arias Davis was a standout high school player for Coach E.B. Price at Waycross High and Ware County High School. For his senior year he was a part of the historic rst basketball team at the newly consolidated Ware County High School. In 1995...

Craig Barnes – 2016

Craig Barnes Inducted 2016 Craig Barnes is one of a handful of local distance runners achieving state, regional and national notoriety. A Ware County High and Valdosta State athletic standout, he knew few peers on the track four decades ago. Barnes placed in the top...

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....