Inductees

Duard B. Walker Sr. was born in Piney Flats, Tennessee. After achieving academic success and playing an active role in sports in high school, he entered East Tennessee State University…

A native of Knoxville, Jackie Walker was an outstanding student athlete excelling in football, basketball and baseball. His head football coach at Fulton High, Lon Herzburn (who later became Jackie’s…

Perry Wallace grew up in Nashville and played basketball and ran track for Pearl High School from 1963 to 1966. In 1966, Wallace’s basketball team went 31-0 and won the…

Starting his driving career in go-karts at age 12, Darrell Waltrip entered his first stock car race just four years later. Waltrip and his father built a 1936 Chevrolet coupe…

In general, when a sports figure announces his or her retirement, the news is respectfully noted and then filed away. Sometimes, however, such an announcement marks the end of an…

Many people regard Knoxville native Holly Warlick as the most prolific basketball player to ever come out of the University of Tennessee. But what most don’t know, is that she…

Murray Warmath won national acclaim throughout his college football coaching career. A husky native of Humboldt, Tennessee, Warmath played football at UT from 1932 to 1934 under the legendary Coach…

The “Crossville Comet,” Curt Watson, literally blazed across the sky of “Big Orange Country” in the late 1960s and early 1970s. At 6’0″ and 215 pounds, he was a big…

Kim Webb established a record of excellence in Middle Tennessee high school and college basketball that propelled her to the top among all-time leading female athletes in the Ohio Valley…

Although the name Nera White is now relatively unknown in the sports world, this Tennessean is perhaps the greatest woman basketball player to ever be involved in the game. Her…

Terrorizing quarterbacks from the collegiate level to the professional ranks, few defensive players in the history of football have dominated the line of scrimmage like Reggie White. A native of…

Perhaps the most talented, all-round athlete ever to represent the University of Tennessee, Ron Widby lettered in four sports in his Vol career and made first-team All-America in basketball and…

Alva Winfred “Win” Wilfong, a Missouri native, was born on March 18, 1933. Wilfong played college basketball at the University of Missouri from 1951 – 1953. In 1955, Wilfong returned…

Following her 1955 high school graduation in Savannah, Georgia, Lucinda Williams Adams enrolled at Tennessee State University in Nashville where for four years she starred both academically and athletically. As…

DeAngelo Williams, a native of Wynne, Arkansas, had an illustrious football career at the University of Memphis, where he still holds 10 school records. In four years, he rushed for…

Born in Bruceton, Tennessee, Willis attended Hollow Rock-Bruceton Central High School, where he was a two-time All-State selection, Regional Most Valuable Player, and West Tennessee Player of the Year. He…

Al Wilson, a native of Jackson TN, was a standout athlete competing in football, basketball and track at Jackson Central-Merry High School. Wilson excelled in football, playing linebacker on defense…

Accomplishments in the sports world by Tennesseans have not been confined only to the field, the court, or the diamond. Some of the great individuals in Tennessee sporting history have…

Throughout the past four decades, the name Betty Wiseman has become synonymous with Belmont University and women’s basketball. A native of Portland, Tennessee, Wiseman put together a standout prep career…

Nicknamed “the Tractor” by former Commodore Head Coach George MacIntyre, Will Wolford is regarded as the finest offensive lineman in Vanderbilt’s modern-day history. Wolford, who played left guard and right…