Guy’s induction delayed until August
By Kathy Thomson
Shackelford County resident Lari Dee Guy’s induction into the Big County Athletic Hall of Fame, originally scheduled to take place on Monday, May 4 was postponed until Monday, Aug. 10.
“In light of COVID-19 restrictions, the Big Country Athletic Hall of Fame board of directors has decided it is best to postpone our annual banquet,” said board chairman Al Pickett. “The banquet has been rescheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 10 and will still be held at the Abilene Convention Center. We thank everyone for their understanding during these unusual times.”
Lari Dee Guy
Guy is an eight-time Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) World Champion with more than $1.5 million in career earnings, and she also competes in the World Series of Team Roping and United States Team Roping Championship.
In addition, Guy is a renowned horse trainer and roping clinician, as well as an outspoken advocate for women ropers through the “Rope Like a Girl” campaign she helped launch in 2013.
Guy lives and works on her family’s 10,000 acre cow-calf ranch which lies just south and east of the corner of Highway 351 and County Road 604 between Abilene and Albany.
She went to grade school in Hamby, high school in Clyde, and then attended Vernon Junior College before earning her degree in recreational therapy with a minor in sports science from Texas Tech University.
Banquet Tickets
Tickets can be purchased online at www.bigcountryhalloffame.org or by calling (325) 668-3685.
The deadline for purchasing tickets is July 17.
2020 Inductees
Included in the 2020 Big Country Athletic Hall of Fame inductees with Guy are former Abilene High and University of Texas football standout Ahmad Brooks, former Abilene High football and baseball star David Bourland, former Baltimore Colts safety Jerry Don Logan from Graham, and C.H. Underwood, who was the coach at O’Brien that won the UIL’s first six-man state football championship.
Former Sweetwater tennis coach Freddie Scott and former Sweetwater and Abilene High tennis coach Fred Scott will receive the Legacy Award.
Long-time Associated Press writer Mike Cochran from Stamford will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement for Media Award.
Legendary Ranger College coach and athletic director Ron Butler will be recognized as the second recipient of the Impact on Big Country Athletics award.
Honored posthumously with the Bill Hart Memorial Legends Award will be Milton Martin of Avoca and Boone Magness of Breckenridge.
