Mark Story

Ex-UK football star among 2024 inductees to Lexington African-American Sports Hall of Fame

Former Lexington Catholic star and Kentucky Wildcats safety Winston Guy is among the 25 — 23 people and two teams — who form the 2024 induction class to the Lexington African-American Sports Hall of Fame.

Joining Guy among the 2024 LAASHOF male inductees are former Bryan Station and Louisville Cardinals football standout Eric Shelton, ex-Henry Clay and Western Kentucky University basketball standout Steve Miller, and former Tates Creek and Duke University hoops star Vince Taylor.

Former Lexington Catholic and Kentucky Wildcats football star Winston Guy is one of the 2024 inductees to the Lexington African-American Sports Hall of Fame.
Former Lexington Catholic and Kentucky Wildcats football star Winston Guy is one of the 2024 inductees to the Lexington African-American Sports Hall of Fame. Jonathan Palmer

Among female athletes being honored are ex-basketball stars Tracye Davis (Henry Clay, UK) and Erika Muncy McGinnis (Bryan Station, Kansas, UK) and former track stars Sherry Ballew Agee (Bryan Station, Tennessee State, UK) and Michelle Williams Johnson (Paul Laurence Dunbar, UK).

The third annual LAASHOF Induction Ceremony and Gala will take place Saturday, Sept. 21, at Central Bank Center in Lexington with the gala dinner and induction ceremony starting at 6 p.m.

The deadline to buy tickets for the event was Sept. 14.

Those who will be inducted in Saturday night’s ceremony:

Name, high school, sport(s)

Sherry Ballew Agee, Bryan Station, track and field

Clyde “C.B.” Akins, Carrier Mills (Illinois), basketball official

Michael Allen, Bryan Station, basketball

Henry Bell, original Douglass High School, basketball official

Dominic Black, Tates Creek, wrestling

Tracye Davis, Henry Clay, basketball

Mike Graves, Lafayette, basketball coaching

Richard Greene, original Dunbar High School, football, basketball

Winston Guy, Lexington Catholic, football, track and field

Anthony Hawkins, N/A, basketball coaching

Anthony Jackson, Bryan Station, basketball

Norman Jackson, Bryan Station, basketball

Michelle Williams Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, track and field

Tony Mack, Tates Creek, baseball

Allen McCowan, Henry Clay, basketball

Erika Muncy McGinnis, Bryan Station, basketball, track and field

Steve Miller, Henry Clay, basketball

Eric Shelton, Bryan Station, football, track and field

Ella Smith, original Dunbar High School, supporter of baseball, football, cheerleading

Ken T. Smith, original Dunbar High School, baseball, football, swim coaching

Rod Smith, Lafayette, baseball, track and field

Vince Taylor, Tates Creek, basketball

Littleton Ward, Bryan Station, football, track and field

Also being inducted:

1961 Dunbar Bearcats boys basketball team

1983 Henry Clay Blue Devils boys basketball team

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Mark Story
Lexington Herald-Leader
Mark Story has worked in the Lexington Herald-Leader sports department since Aug. 27, 1990, and has been a Herald-Leader sports columnist since 2001. I have covered every Kentucky-Louisville football game since 1994, every UK-U of L basketball game but three since 1996-97 and every Kentucky Derby since 1994. Support my work with a digital subscription
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