From The Abilene Reporter News, March 2, 2005:

Current members of the Big Country Athletic Hall of Fame

Chuck Moser, Abilene High football coach

B.L. "Blacky" Blackburn , Abilene High baseball coach

Jack Mildren, Cooper and Oklahoma quarterback

Billy Olson, Abilene High, ACU and Olympic pole vaulter

Louis Kelley, Abilene Woodson football player and long-time Lubbock Estacado coach

Rick Meyers, Cooper, TCU and professional tennis player

Jimmy Carpenter, Abilene High and Oklahoma football player

Glynn Gregory, Abilene High, SMU and Dallas Cowboy football player

Dan Salkeld, Abilene High football player

P.E. "Pete Shotwell, Abilene High and Breckenridge football coach

Gordon Wood, Wylie graduate who won nine state football title at Brownwood and Stamford

Charles Coody, Stamford , professional golfer who won 1971 Masters

Sammy Baugh, Sweetwater and Washington Redskins quarterback, original member of Pro Football Hall of Fame

Mindy Myers Flowers, Munday who is most decorated track, basketball and cross country athlete in UIL history

Don Maynard, Colorado City , UTEP and New York Jet receiver, member of Pro Football Hall of Fame

Clyde "Bulldog" Turner, Sweetwater and Chicago Bears center-linebacker, member of Pro Football Hall of Fame

Hollis Gainey , Colorado City football and track star, ran on relay teams that set three world records at the University of Texas

David Parks, Abilene High, Texas Tech and San Francisco 49ers receiver, first pick in 1964 NFL Draft

Bev Ball, Throckmorton, spent 48 years in the Abilene Independent School District , coach Abilene High and Cooper swim teams for 34 years.

John Kimbrough, Haskell and Texas A&M running back

Bob Estes, Abilene Cooper, University of Texas and PGA Tour golfer

Hershel Kimbrell, former Abilene High basketball and baseball player and long-time McMurry University basketball coach

Grant Teaff, former Baylor University football coach and now executive director of the American Football Coaches Association

Max Williams, former Avoca and SMU basketball great

Bob Harrison, former Stamford and Oklahoma football standout

Jerry Tubbs, former Breckenridge, Oklahoma and Dallas Cowboy football great who coached with Tom Landry for the Cowboys

Bill Hart, Baird, first recipient of the Lifetime Media Achievement Award who spent 28 years covering Big Country sports for the Abilene Reporter-News

Chuck Hughes, Abilene High and Texas-El Paso football star who was the last player to die in an NFL game