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Presented by Volunteer Pharmacy FARRAGUTPRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2015 • 1C

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class Eight former FHS athletes, two coaches set to be inducted Saturday, Jan. 31

ALAN SLOAN asloan@farragutpress.com

A Major League Baseball firstround draft choice and a state championship coach in two sports, two of 10 former Farragut High School athletes and coaches nominated for induction into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame. An eight-person Farragut High School Hall of Fame Committee recently released its selections pointing toward Third Annual Farragut High School Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, making it all official, beginning at 6 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 31, in FHS Commons. Nominees are Kyle Waldrop

(Class of 2004, baseball); Kellie Ivens (track and field and cross country coach, 1996-97 through 2006 cross country season); Jim Cates (former wrestling head coach, 1992-93 through 1998-99); Jason Price (1992, football, basketball and baseball); Eric Bell (1998, cross country and track and field); Mike Carpenter (1983, basketball); Tyler Cornaby (1995, wrestling); Lynn Houston Moore (1994, track and field and basketball) Giovanni Price (2000, basketball) and Leah Seffernick Bucklen (1999, softball). “We’ve got a real good class coming in that represents the whole sports community at Farragut,” Donald Dodgen, FHS

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athletic director, said. “I’m excited about it.” Dr. Paul Becker, team sports physician, orthopedic surgeon and FHS alumnus, has been chosen for 2015 Hall of Fame Service Award. Tickets are $30 in advance (call 865-671-7126 and ask for Kim Gray, Dodgen or Dave Moore or email Wilma.capehart@knoxschools.org or cindy.lindsey@knoxscho-ols.org) or $35 at the door Jan. 31. For those wishing to sponsor a table of eight, cost is

$200 (RSVP through contacts listed above). For more information, call Moore at 865-274-5257. Featured speaker is Josh Ward, Knoxville sports radio show cohost and a 2003 FHS alumnus. “He played basketball for me as a freshman. We thought he’d be a good one,” Dodgen, a former Admirals varsity boys basketball head coach, said about Ward. Erik Gerhardt, the Voice of Admirals football and basketball on WFIV i105.3 FM, returns

as emcee. Nominees will be recognized during the Farragut home basketball games versus rival Bearden Friday evening, Jan. 30. “It’s probably be in-between [girls and boys varsity] games,” Dodgen said. This follows an inductees’ reception — which will include families of inductees, Hall of Fame Committee members and other FHS coaches, staff and teachers — to be held in the school’s library Friday evening (not open to the public).

Ward, FHS grad, radio sports talk host, keynote speaker ■

ALAN SLOAN asloan@farragutpress.com

Closely monitoring and reporting on Tennessee Volunteers and SEC football recruiting among his duties, Josh Ward has been one of East Tennessee’s top sports talk show personalities this decade. His rise actually began as a Farragut High School junior in 2001. “I started interning and working part time at the radio station and worked here through college,” said Ward, a 2003 FHS graduate whose mother, Beverly

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Ward, was a language arts teacher at Farragut Middle School before retiring in 2014. “I helped produce [sports shows]. … I would help them Ward with really anything,” he added. “Go to Tennessee Football practices and basketball practices. As time went on I go

some on-air time as well.” In keeping with his Farragut ties, and his continuous support of FHS athletics, Ward is scheduled as featured speaker during 2015 Farragut High School Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in the school’s commons. Festivities begin at 6 p.m. “I was proud to go to Farragut, and it’s been a program in all different types of sports that has really done well. From fall through the spring they’ve had a lot of success,” Ward said. “They asked me to come to the

Hall of Fame banquet; I thought that was really cool. I was excited and honored. I thought that was great that they would think of me,” he added. “… People are proud they come from Farragut High School for a reason. When I talked to Eddie Courtney [FHS varsity football head coach] and he mentioned the idea, I was really excited. “The Hall of Fame’s a big deal because they’ve had a lot of great athletes come through there. Great coaches have been a part of it.”

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Athletically at FHS, Ward said he played basketball “briefly … but I stopped playing before varsity level.” His duties have included freelance writing with Knoxville News Sentinel, USA Today and MrSEC.com Ward, 29, attended and graduated from The University of Tennessee in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and electronic media. Ward’s immediate family features his wife, Kellie.


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