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Nine up for KHSAA hall of fame induction
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Former girls’ basketball star Jaime Walz Richey and former track and field standout Tyson Gay were among the nine people named Friday to the Class of 2013 for the Dawahares/Kentucky High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame.The class will be inducted in April 2013 during a ceremony at the Lexington Convention Center.
Richey, now the girls’ basketball coach at Highlands High School, set 12 state records while playing for the Bluebirds and is the state’s all-time leading scorer with 4,948 points. She was Kentucky’s Miss Basketball in 1996.
Gay won three state championships in the 100-meter dash while at Lafayette and went on to become a three-time world champion and represented the United States in the 2008 Olympics.
Other members of the class:
• Pascal Benson earned All-State honors in baseball, basketball and football while at Henderson High School in the mid-1950s.
• Julie Ditty won three state tennis titles while at Lexington Christian and Russell and later was a three-time All-American at Vanderbilt.
• Burney Jenkins spent more than 35 years as an official, calling four state football finals, five state basketball finals and five state baseball finals.
• Roger Klein was one of the pioneers of high school tennis in Kentucky, helping establish the first state tournament in 1945. He built a powerhouse program at Bellevue from 1942-1974.
• Frank Miklavcic was a longtime cross country and track and field coach at Paintsville and Frankfort and still is involved in the sports as the executive director of the Kentucky Track and Cross Country Coaches Association.
• Ron Myers won 727 games and two state championships in 31 seasons as the baseball coach at Elizabethtown.
• Jon Dee Wilson was a longtime basketball coach at Cawood, Webster County and Red Bird.http://saxo.highschoolsports.net/article...ts?Avis=B2

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