012915 fp hof
DESCRIPTION
Farragut High School Hall of Fame previewTRANSCRIPT
FARRAGUTPRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2015 • 1C
Presented by Volunteer Pharmacy
■ ALAN [email protected]
A Major League Baseball first-round draft choice and a statechampionship coach in two spo-rts, two of 10 former FarragutHigh School athletes and coachesnominated for induction into theschool’s Athletic Hall of Fame.
An eight-person Farragut HighSchool Hall of Fame Committeerecently released its selectionspointing toward Third AnnualFarragut High School AthleticHall of Fame Induction Cer-emony, making it all official,beginning at 6 p.m., Saturday,Jan. 31, in FHS Commons.
Nominees are Kyle Waldrop
(Class of 2004, baseball); KellieIvens (track and field and crosscountry coach, 1996-97 through2006 cross country season); JimCates (former wrestling headcoach, 1992-93 through 1998-99);Jason Price (1992, football, bas-ketball and baseball); Eric Bell(1998, cross country and trackand field); Mike Carpenter (1983,basketball); Tyler Cornaby (1995,wrestling); Lynn Houston Moore(1994, track and field and basket-ball) Giovanni Price (2000, bas-ketball) and Leah SeffernickBucklen (1999, softball).
“We’ve got a real good classcoming in that represents thewhole sports community atFarragut,” Donald Dodgen, FHS
Alan Sloan
Farragut High School Hall of Fame Class of 2014 paves way for 2015.
athletic director, said. “I’m excit-ed about it.”
Dr. Paul Becker, team sportsphysician, orthopedic surgeonand FHS alumnus, has been cho-sen for 2015 Hall of Fame ServiceAward.
Tickets are $30 in advance (call865-671-7126 and ask for KimGray, Dodgen or Dave Moore or e-mail [email protected] or [email protected]) or $35 at the doorJan. 31. For those wishing tosponsor a table of eight, cost is
$200 (RSVP through contacts list-ed above).
For more information, callMoore at 865-274-5257.
Featured speaker is Josh Ward,Knoxville sports radio show co-host and a 2003 FHS alumnus. “Heplayed basketball for me as afreshman. We thought he’d be agood one,” Dodgen, a formerAdmirals varsity boys basketballhead coach, said about Ward.
Erik Gerhardt, the Voice ofAdmirals football and basketballon WFIV i105.3 FM, returns
as emcee. Nominees will be recognized
during the Farragut home basket-ball games versus rival BeardenFriday evening, Jan. 30. “It’s prob-ably be in-between [girls and boysvarsity] games,” Dodgen said.
This follows an inductees’reception — which will includefamilies of inductees, Hall ofFame Committee members andother FHS coaches, staff andteachers — to be held in theschool’s library Friday evening(not open to the public).
■ ALAN [email protected]
Closely monitoring and report-ing on Tennessee Volunteers andSEC football recruiting among hisduties, Josh Ward has been one ofEast Tennessee’s top sports talkshow personalities this decade.
His rise actually began as aFarragut High School junior in2001. “I started interning andworking part time at the radiostation and worked here throughcollege,” said Ward, a 2003 FHSgraduate whose mother, Beverly
Ward, was a language arts teacherat FarragutMiddle Sc-hool beforeretiring in2014.
“I helpedproduce [sp-orts shows].… I wouldhelp themwith reallya n y t h i n g , ”he added. “Go to TennesseeFootball practices and basketballpractices. As time went on I go
some on-air time as well.” In keeping with his Farragut
ties, and his continuous supportof FHS athletics, Ward is sched-uled as featured speaker during2015 Farragut High SchoolAthletic Hall of Fame InductionCeremony in the school’s com-mons. Festivities begin at 6 p.m.
“I was proud to go to Farragut,and it’s been a program in all dif-ferent types of sports that hasreally done well. From fallthrough the spring they’ve had alot of success,” Ward said.
“They asked me to come to the
Hall of Fame banquet; I thoughtthat was really cool. I was excitedand honored. I thought that wasgreat that they would think ofme,” he added. “… People areproud they come from FarragutHigh School for a reason. When Italked to Eddie Courtney [FHSvarsity football head coach] andhe mentioned the idea, I wasreally excited.
“The Hall of Fame’s a big dealbecause they’ve had a lot of greatathletes come through there.Great coaches have been a part ofit.”
Athletically at FHS, Ward saidhe played basketball “briefly …but I stopped playing before var-sity level.”
His duties have included free-lance writing with KnoxvilleNews Sentinel, USA Today andMrSEC.com
Ward, 29, attended and gradu-ated from The University ofTennessee in 2007 with a bache-lor’s degree in journalism andelectronic media.
Ward’s immediate family fea-tures his wife, Kellie.
Ward
Ward, FHS grad, radio sports talk host, keynote speaker
Eight former FHS athletes, two coachesset to be inducted Saturday, Jan. 31
2015class
LiveHealthy!
Volunteer Pharmacy Now Serving you at 2 Convenient LocationsPRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS, COMPOUNDS, FREE DELIVERY & MORE!
From our store to your door! Personalized ServiceWe accept all major insurance plans including Express Scripts • Everyday Military & Senior Discounts
Chad & Camilla Frost, PharmDs10420 Kingston Pike Lovell Heights Center 865-694-7750
2403 US Highway 411S Maryville, TN 865-724-1453
SaveMoney!
2C • FARRAGUTPRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2015 FARRAGUT SPORTS HALL OF FAME
Eric Bell narrows his highly suc-cessful running career at FarragutHigh School, which includes a statechampionship, down to a pair of“special moments.”
A former champion triathlete,Bell was 1600-meter state champi-on his senior season with FHS trackand field in 1998. Along with hissecond-place state finish in the3200 at the state meet, Bell help hisFHS boys team win the 1998 TSSAAClass AAA state title.
A 2015 FHS Athletic Hall of Famenominee, Bell also was state runner-
up in cross-country and in the1600,both as a junior. He went on to runboth cross-country and track at TheUniversity of Tennessee, where hewas named to the All-SEC AcademicHonor Roll.
A medical device sales representa-tive living in Knoxville, Bell, 35, rec-alled in detail what he labeled “prob-ably the turning point in my career.”
“My sophomore year heading to theKIL [track and field] meet, I remem-ber being on the bus riding up to[Karns High School], coach [Bill]Parker and coach [Scott] McKenzie
told me, ‘You’re going to win this mile[1600 meters] today and here’s howyou’re going to do it,” Bell said. “Ilooked at them like, ‘Are you guyscrazy?’ I was only a sophomore, myfastest time was 4:31. And they justsaid, ‘Trust us, do what we tell you todo and you’ll [win] it.’
“And I went out and ran 4:20 thatday,” Bell added about winning themeet. “… That’s when the dominosfell and the rest turned to history.”
Bell’s “second biggest moment”came at the state meet in 1998 afterhis second-place 3200 finish “in the
morning.” Ironically, “I felt terrible, I had a
terrible race. And I remembercoach McKenzie looking at me, andhe told me, ‘Go back to the hotel andget it together because you’re goingto come back and win [the 1600]tonight,’” Bell said. “That’s exactlywhat happened.
“… I doubted myself a lot, and Ijust remember coach McKenziekind of always being there for me.… He’s always just said, ‘You’ve gotto trust yourself.’ That’s probablymy biggest lesson.”
Eric Bell2015 INDUCTEES
‘Sturdiness, strength’ illuminate wrestling coachWho better than a champion at
the highest level of high schoolathletics, two-time Farragut HighSchool state championshipwrestler Tyler Cornaby, to illumi-nate the virtues of his high schoolhead coach, Jim Cates.
“Coach Cates is an inspirationon many levels — some that I rec-ognized when I wrestled for himand others that I only now canidentify with more life experi-ence,” Cornaby said about Cates,one of two coaches nominated in2015 for induction into FHS
Athletic Hall of Fame. “I noticedback then that he gave the impres-sion of sturdiness and strength.
“I was always pushing myself tobe stronger and I looked to CoachCates for inspiration — his exam-ple and my impression of himmade coach Cates a carrot, not astick — I wanted to be like himnot because of what he said to me,but because of what I perceived inhim as strength,” Cornaby added.“Even now, I’m still impressedwith him.”
A two-time TSSAA Region-2 Coach
of the Year during his seven seasonsat FHS (1992-93 through 1998-99),Cates started wrestling programs atthree different high schools (1959,1967 and 1978) during a 40-yearcareer, 34 as a head coach.
Cates led the Admirals to a third-place finish in the 1999 TSSAA Dualsstate meet, along with Region 2 indi-vidual tournament championships in1997 and 1999.
In addition to Cornaby, Catescoached six state championwrestlers at FHS.
“Coach Cates struck the balance
between work, discipline and fun,”said Cornaby, also a 2015 FHS Hallof Fame nominee (Class of 1995).“He didn’t let us slack off, but atthe same time, he wasn’t the typeof coach that would yell at his ath-letes. At least not that I remember.… He was always organized inpractices, he had hand writtennotes of everything he wanted tocover. It was this regularity, evenpredictability, that helped form myimpression of coach Cates as stur-dy and helped me focus on gettingbetter during each practice.”
Jim Cates
Shot-blocking record holder honoredMike Carpenter, Farragut High
School basketball’s human flyswat-ter as a 7-foot star post, was grate-ful yet modest about being selectedas a Class of 2015 FHS Athletic Hallof Fame nominee.
“It’s an honor. It’s a very humblingexperience to be remembered,”Carpenter, 50, the school’s all-timeblocked shots leader (402/3.9 pergame) and All-state honoree his sen-ior season in 1983, said.
“He had a single game of 12[blocks] one time,” Lynn Sexton,Carpenter’s head coach at FHS and
a fellow FHS Hall of Fameinductee, said.
“Quite frankly I didn’t reallythink what I did was all that big ofa deal, but apparently some peopledo,” Carpenter added.
In his three years as starter,Carpenter helped lead the Adm-irals to a 97-8 overall record plus atrip to the 1983 Class AAA statetournament (14.11 poi-nts/9.14rebounds per game as a senior).“That’s the most significant partabout his value to the team. I don’tthink we would have been 97-8
without him,” Sexton said. “… Thedefensive situation was, peopletended to think, ‘We’ll go at him toget him in foul trouble.’ But he did-n’t foul very much. He ended upblocking shots, but in a little bitsofter manner and not hitting theguy when he did it.”
On top of reaching the statetournament as a senior with onlyone loss, “Another memorablemoment was beating Austin-Eastin the city championship our sen-ior year, in a real close game,”Carpenter, who grew to 7-foot-2
while playing at the University ofMinnesota before transferring tothe University of Arkansas, said.
Getting to play in MemorialGymnasium in Nashville, home ofVanderbilt University, during thestate tournament “was prettyexciting, except for getting beat bytwo points by Nashville Northside,”Carpenter said. “We had a greatteam and everybody got alonggreat. Jack [Williams] and Bo[Creech] and Danny [Martin] andme.”
Mike Carpenter
Congratulations toDR. PAUL BECKER
for his 2015 Induction into theFarragut Athletic Hall of Fame.
Dr. Becker is the recipient of the prestigious
FHS Athletic Services Award.Dr. Becker began his practice at KOC in 2000. He is a native of Knoxville
and a graduate of Farragut High School, where he was a student athlete andwhere he now serves as Team Physician. He specializes in all forms of shoulderand knee surgery ranging from arthroscopic rotator cuff repair and arthroscopicACL reconstruction . A member of the American Academy of OrthopaedicSurgeons and the American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine, Dr. Beckeris also Board Certified and Fellowship trained in Sports Medicine.
Dr. Becker continues his support of KOC's sports medicine outreach pro-gram. This outreach endeavor allows coaches and students the benefit of hav-ing a certified athletic trainer (ATC) available at the school, practices, and onthe sidelines of games. This convenience, paired with the established relation-ships and a collaborative effort among the student athlete, parents, physicians,and coaches, serves to help student-athletes return to participation as quicklyand safely as possible.
KOC is honored and proud to have Dr. Paul Becker to serve the East Tennessee Community with passion and integrity
Dowell Springs Office1422 Old Weisgarber Road Knoxville, TN 37909 865-558-4400West Office260 Fort Sanders West Blvd., Building #6 Knoxville, TN 37922 865-558-4400
S p e c i a l i s t s . . . f o r e v e r y s e a s o n
‘Special moments’highlight championship running career
FARRAGUTPRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2015 • 3CFARRAGUT SPORTS HALL OF FAME
State Champion that almost wasn’tState wrestling champion in the
112-pound class as a junior in1994, and 119 state champ as asenior in 1995, Tyler Cornaby al-most didn’t become a high schoolwrestler.
Reflecting back to middleschool, “About two weeks afterstarting wrestling in the eighthgrade I wanted to quit,” Cornaby, a2015 FHS Athletic Hall of Famenominee, said.
“The push-ups and sweating andrunning and ‘uncomfortableness’of it all had gotten to me. But my
mom [Linda] wouldn’t let me,” headded. “Her reasoning was prettysimple. … She didn’t want me toquit because she had just boughtme a pair of wrestling shoes and Ihad only begun to really use them.Thank goodness for those shoesand a mom that knew what shewas doing.”
Before his state championships,however, Cornaby had to learn alesson in sportsmanship.
Easily beating an opponent dur-ing his sophomore season, “Idecided to lift my opponent up off
the mat where he was lying on hisstomach and walk him back to thecenter of the mat where I couldcontinue to score points and even-tually win,” Cornaby said.
“When I got off the mat, coach[Jim] Cates pulled me aside andsaid simply, ‘Tyler, you know how Ifeel about that,’ I immediatelyknew what he meant — that I hadcrossed the line of sportsmanshipand had used my superior skills todishearten and seemingly demeanmy opponent,” he added.
“… It was also the most pene-
trating, yet quietest, lecture of mywrestling career. Coach Catestaught me more in that momentabout sportsmanship than I think Ihad learned in all my life prior andsince.”
A wrestler at The University ofTennessee, Chattanooga where hefinished second in the SouthernConference tournament his fresh-man year, Cornaby also was a stu-dent-wrestler at Brigham YoungUniversity. He received a Mastersof Business Administration degreeat BYU in 2014.
Tyler Cornaby
Credits coaches, mother, athletes for her successKellie Ivens credits two track
and field coaching predecessorsfor helping her achieve success.Two of Ivens’ former athletescredit her motivational skills andcaring nature.
Winning three state titles asFarragut High School head coachof boys cross country (1997 and2001) and FHS Lady Admiralstrack and field (2000), Ivens hasbeen named a 2015 FHS AthleticHall of Fame nominee. Her 2001state champs also finished with aNo. 5 national ranking.
Head coach of cross country
from 1996-97 through 2006-07school years, Ivens also had threestate runners-up girls cross coun-try teams and one runner-up boysstate finish.
Coaching girls track and fieldfrom ’96-97 through the 2002-03school year, Ivens also had one st-ate runner-up finish. However, allof her track teams reached thestate tournament and none fin-ished lower than fifth.
Andy Baksa, individual crosscountry state champion in 1998as a freshman who went on to runat The University of Tennessee,
said Ivens “had that ability tobring out a little bit more thanyou thought you had as a runner.
“I didn’t think I was going towin state, but her motivation andher inspiration plants that seed,and that’s all you needed. Thatkind of gets you all the waythere,” he added.
Mandy Newman Watson was aLady Admirals state championdiscus thrower, a three-time pen-tathlon state runner-up and hur-dles specialist who helped FHSwin the 2000 track state tile.
“She was such a motivational
coach. She’s probably the bestmotivational coach I’ve ever hadmy entire life,” Watson said.“She’s encouraging and she caresso deeply about her athletes. Ithink that’s the quality who madeus who we are because shebelieved in us.”
“It’s a huge honor being induct-ed,” said Ivens, an assistant prin-cipal in her 25th year at FHS whoalso was an assistant coach forboys and girls track and cross-country teams from the 1991-92school year through ’95-96.
Kellie Ivens
Major success without a ballComing from a family known for
its basketball skills and knowl-edge, Lynn Houston Moore madequite a name for herself jumpingand running without a ball.
Moore also matched her trackand field success academically “asone of the Valedictorians of Far-ragut High School’s Class of 1994,”she recalled via e-mail. Moore isone of 10 FHS Athletic Hall ofFame nominees for 2015.
A two-time high jump statechamp and 4-by-100 relay team
state champ at FHS who helpedthe Lady Admirals win fourstraight Class AAA state crowns,Moore’s athletic and academic suc-cess followed her to Georgia Techin Atlanta.
A four-time Atlantic CoastConference Women’s High Jumpchampion, Moore also grabbed All-America honors by placing fourthat the 1999 NCAA Indoor Track &Field Championships.
“I thought Lynn was an excellenthigh jumper,” Bill Parker, former
FHS track and field head coachand FHS Hall of Fame member,said. “Lynn also was a hurdler[100-, 300-meters]; she would havebeen in the top four, top five in thestate. … She finished third in thestate pentathlon in ’94 and fourthin ’93. And she was third place inthe long jump [at state] in 1994.
“She and Shannon [Sim-mons/FHS Hall of Fame sprinter]just happened to be along at thesame time, and they were both socompetitive. I think they pushed
one another quite a bit,” Parkeradded.
Moore and Simmons wereamong “four sprinters; they werepretty much trying to get the brag-ging rights every day as to who wasthe best of the group. And severalof them were pentathletes as well.”
Earning a place on ACC HonorRoll from 1994 through 1999,Moore graduated with HighestHonors while earning a Bachelor’sDegree in Industrial and SystemsEngineering.
Lynn Houston Moore
4C • FARRAGUTPRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2015 FARRAGUT SPORTS HALL OF FAME
Record-breaking star postGiovanni Price brought Farragut
Lady Admirals basketball into the21st Century as a record-breakingstar post.
A 2015 FHS Athletic Hall of Famenominee from the Class of 2000,“She’s still the all-time [FHS] lead-ing scorer as far as I know,” saidMike Driver, who coached Price forthree years as a Lady Admiralsassistant before taking over as headcoach (2001-02 through 2007-08).“… She was always our leadingscorer. She was our best playerwhen I was an assistant coach.”
An All-District 4-AAA and All-Region 2-AAA honoree who went onto play major college basketball atSamford University in Birmingham,Ala., Price “was a really good scorer,especially elbow, short corner andinside,” Driver, now a teacher/assis-tant girls basketball coach atMaryville High School, said. “She wasalso a very good rebounder. If thingshaven’t changed she’s second behindAlex Munday [all-time FHS girlsrebounding]. … Giovanni got a lot ofpoints on the offensive boards. Put-backs and stuff like that.”
Price was good enough quick en-ough to be named All-KIL as a fresh-man in 1997. One year later she ea-rned KIL “Sophomore of the Year”honors.
Driver said Price helped theLady Admirals break down a pro-gram post-season barrier.
In the late 1990s, “The big goalfor us was to make it to the regiontournament,” Driver said. “TheFarragut girls [program] wasdown. You had to finish top four inthe district tournament, and oneyear we made it. And that was a big
accomplishment.” Mandy Newman Watson, a for-
mer shooting guard teammate ofPrice’s with the Lady Admirals(Class of 2001), remembers alighter side. “She was so much fun.She had a way to make you laughand to smile.”
In terms of winning basketballgames, however, “Just her determi-nation, her spirit on the court ledus to victory I can’t tell you howmany times,” Watson added.“Without her, I don’t know wherewe would have been.”
Giovanni Price
Performance unmatchedHelping Farragut High School
softball end the 20th Century withconsecutive Class AAA state playoffappearances, pitcher Leah Seff-ernick Bucklen “held almost everypitching record,” head coach DavidMoore said about this 2015 FHSAthletic Hall of Fame nominee.
“Records still held are 94 wins,987 [strikeouts] and 879 inningspitched.”
A star pitcher at Western Mic-higan University where she led theBroncos to the NCAA Tournament,Bucklen’s senior stats at FHS in1999 were eight shutouts in 39games (30- 8 record) with one save,
an 0.79 earned run average and 255strikeouts versus just 33 walks in247 innings. She also hit .308 thatyear with 21 RBI and seven triples.
“She came in and kind ofchanged our program a little bit,”Moore said about this District 4-AAA Most Val-uable Player and KILPlayer of the Year in 1999, a three-time All-district honoree. “She wasa great competitor all four years. …One of those special players.
“Probably in high school hercurve was her best pitch,” Mooreadded. “And she threw pretty hard.She would hit 60 [mph] with herfastball. Mostly movement.
“Her freshman year she had areally good change-up that keptpeople off balance.”
“My greatest accomplishment ismaking all KIL Player of the Year,and leading in district stats forpitching my sophomore [through]senior year,” Bucklen said. “Leadingin hitting stats my senior year fortriples.
“Some things I remember of myteammates is having a family com-munity,” she added. “We acceptednothing less than perfect effort. Wehad a mission to get to the statetournament and start a tradition atFarragut for the softball program.”
A four-year starting pitcher,“Leah was all we had her sopho-more year after another pitcherwent down and [Leah] pitched allbut nine innings that year,” Mooresaid. “She also pitched with a rota-tor cuff injury and just had to makeall her throws underhand in theinfield. Two of the most memorablegames were an extra inning districtgame at Maryville which we won in10 innings and Leah had 20 strike-outs, and the win over Halls in thestate tournament in extra innings.Leah pitched every inning and alsohad a big triple to lead us to thewin.”
Leah Seffernick Bucklen
Dream that turned reality for star QBA 2015 FHS Athletic Hall of
Fame nominee, Jason Price idol-ized Farragut High School footballdating back to when he movedhere in the fifth grade.
“All I wanted to do was playquarterback for the Admirals,”said Price, an All-state and All-Southeast Region FHS quarter-back who earned a scholarship toNorth Carolina State University in1992. He passed for 3,300 careeryards and 36 touchdown whilerushing for another 2,100 and 26
more TDs. While it’s been rare for a fresh-
man to start for the Admirals’ var-sity team, Price started at twopositions, wide receiver and freesafety, as a freshman in 1988.
Moreover, “I returned punts andkickoffs. I did a lot as a freshman,”said Price, who would move toquarterback as a sophomore andeventually own 22 school records.
“We’ve only had a handful ofthose guys start as a freshman,”said FHS head coach Eddie
Courtney, then an assistant whohas been with the FHS programfor more than 30 years.
Remaining as a free safetywhile quarterbacking as a sopho-more, Price also was the team’spunter his final three seasons atFarragut, earning All-state honorsas a junior. “I was very fortunate toget a lot of attention punting theball,” Price, who went to N.C.State as a quarterback and punter,said.
Courtney said Price “was a team
leader, he was very unselfish andhe inspired those around him toup their game, their level of play.
“And he had good ball skills, hethrew the ball real well,” Courtneyadded. “He could run the option.He was a pretty complete dualthreat type of quarterback. We did-n’t have a lot of that back then.”
Also a stellar baseball and bas-ketball player at FHS (1988-92),“The thing about Jason, he alwaysworked hard. He always wanted toget better,” Courtney said.
Jason Price
3531 Central Park Blvd., Louisville, TN 37777
(865) 724-1400www.autocollisionexpertstn.com
State-of-the-Art Collision Repair Facility
• Body Repair • Refinishing • Frame Repair
N O W O P E NOur Second Location servicing the
Oak Ridge & Kingston areas.1259 A Gallaher Rd • Kingston, TN
865-248-8010
FARRAGUTPRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2015 • 5CFARRAGUT SPORTS HALL OF FAME
High School All-American, MLB pitcherA first-round Major League
Baseball Draft selection in 2004,Kyle Waldrop was straight out ofFarragut High School where, as ahigh school All-American pit-cher/first baseman, helped lead theAdmirals to back-to-back Class AAAstate tiles.
A two-time All-state selection,Waldrop was a perfect 22-0 on themound combining those state titleseasons (118 strikeouts, just sevenwalks and a 0.15 earned run aver-age as a senior). He batted .503 as ajunior (10 home runs, 67 RBI) and.493 as a senior (16 home runs, 67RBI).
For all of his superstar talent,however, “The first word that comesto mind when I think of Kyle ishumility,” former Admirals skipperTommy Pharr said about this 2015FHS Athletic Hall of Fame nominee.“Kyle is one of the most humble per-sons that I have been around.”
For example, “Going into hissenior year I was talking to Kyle’sdad, Steve, about how to informscouts about dates that Kyle wouldpitch. Scouts always wanted toknow in advance so they could plan.My suggestion was to post it on ourbaseball website,” Pharr said.“Steve told me that he had suggest-
ed that to Kyle and that Kyle saidthat he didn’t want to do it because‘he didn’t want it to be about him.’That is a very humble and maturethought for a high school senior.That is who Kyle was and is.”
Ascending to the MinnesotaTwins pitching staff in 2011,Waldrop’s MLB career has beenderailed by an elbow injury (TommyJohn surgery in 2013 followed byextensive rehab).
When notified by phone about hisnomination, Waldrop said, “It justbrought back a lot of good memo-ries, and a lot of the times that wewere able to go through. It’s kind of
hard to believe it’s been more than10 years since high school.”
“It’s really an honor. … There arejust so many guys that are worthy,”Waldrop added.
“Another quality of Kyle was hiswork ethic,” Pharr said. “He was anextremely hard worker. He knewwhat he wanted to accomplish andthat it would require a greatamount of work. He once came upto me as we were finishing our con-ditioning and said ‘we need to keepgoing we’ve got some guys not push-ing it.’ He told it off to the side ashe didn’t want to make a big dealabout it but wanted me to know.”
Kyle Waldrop
13137 El Camino Lane | Knoxville, TN 37932865.693.9949 • premierwaterspor ts.net
Come see our Spring Inventory...IN STOCK NOW!
PR O U D LY FE AT U R I N G. . .Yamaha, Supra, Moomba, Premier & Sylvan Boats
State Farm®
Providing Insurance and Financial ServicesHome Office, Bloomington, Illinois 61710
Jeannette Rogers, Agent NMLS #2275459648 Kingston Pike, Suite 3Knoxville, TN 37922-2397Bus 865-693-7541Fax 865-693-0228jeannetterogers.com
The greatest compliment you can give is a referral.
Congratulations 2015 Hall of Fame Inductees!
Congratulationsto all 2015Inductees!
Home | Auto | Ret irement | Pets
Crystal JacobsAgency Owner
9621 Countryside Center LaneKnoxville,TN 37931
Phone 865-219-2708Fax 865-851-9552Cell 865-978-0637
Over 16,700 c locks & watches f ixed!6709B Kingston Pike, Knoxvi l le TN 37919865-584-2570www.carpenterclocks.comOpen Monday - Fr iday 9 :00 - 5 :00, Saturday 9 :00 - 2 :00
AWCI Cert i f ied Clockmaker 295member NAWCC since 1993 • 36 years in business
2015Hall of Fame
inductees
11826 Kingston Pike • Ste. 110Farragut, TN 37934
(865) 675-7057www.farragutchamber.com
CongratulationsInductees
865-675-545811523 Parkside Dr. Knoxville, TN 37934
1/2off MVP
Regular Price $24One per person • Must present coupon
code 2102 • expires 3/15/2015
1988 - 1991Four Year Starter
Congratulations! FHS FootballBooster Club
6C • FARRAGUTPRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2015 FARRAGUT SPORTS HALL OF FAME
Chad and Camilla Frost, PharmDs
NOW SERVINGthe Maryville CommunityVisit us at Either Convenient Location
Transfer your prescription or request refills at www.volrox.com• Compounding • Prescription Medication
• Free Delivery 6 days a week • Military and Senior Discounts every day!
10420 Kingston PikeLovell Heights Center
865-694-7750
2403 US Highway 411SMaryville, TN
865-724-1453
CONGRATULATIONS