Two teams and three individuals will be inducted into the Trigg County Athletic Hall of Fame on October 23. It will be the first class added to the hall of fame since 2019.
The 2021 HOF class includes basketball and cross country coach Mike Wright, girls’ soccer player Lauren Frazier, and Trigg County broadcaster and sports historian Scott Brown.
Also to be inducted are the 1983 boys’ and girls’ state champion track and field teams.
The state champion teams marked the first and only times Trigg County has won state titles in track and field in the same year.
The girls’ team, led by distance runner Kitty Davidson and sprinters Melinda McGee and Romalisa Hendrix, easily won region and semistate titles and the Class A championship.
The boys’ team, led by sprinters Al Baker and Calvin Turnley and pole vaulter Stuart White, won a semistate title and edged Lexington Catholic for the state title.
Lauren Frazier is the school’s all-time leading soccer scorer for both the boys’ and girls’ programs.
She scored 140 goals and handed out 31 assists in 71 career games for Trigg County. She holds the school scoring record for goals in a game (9), season (42), and career (140). The 140 career goals also ranked in the top ten in state history when she graduated in 2013.
Frazier was a 2011 and 2012 All-State honorable mention selection and was an All-Region first-team selection in each of her four years.
Mike Wright served two stints as head coach of both the boys’ and girls’ basketball teams at Trigg County. In 16 seasons as boys’ coach, he won 221 games against 219 losses.
Wright’s Wildcat teams won four district titles, an All-A region title, and one of two Second Region titles in the school’s history in 1997.
As girls’ coach, Wright was 88-99 from 1985-92 which included a district title. He returned in 2014 and posted a 21-31 record in two seasons.
His 330 combined wins are the most in school history.
Wright also coached Trigg County to a boys’ cross country state championship in 1986 and a girls’ state championship in 1991.
Wright played five sports in high school and earned all-district honors in basketball and all-region honors in cross country.
He is also responsible for helping create the Trigg County High School Athletic Hall of Fame.
Scott Brown has covered and reported on Trigg County athletics for WKDZ Radio, the Cadiz Record, and YourSportsEdge.com for over 30 years. He has also compiled the history of most of Trigg’s sports teams.
Brown has also served in other capacities with Trigg athletics to include statistician, public address announcer, and volunteer coach.
The 2021 Hall of Fame class will be recognized at halftime of Trigg County’s Oct. 22 football game with Union County. The Hall of Fame ceremony will be Saturday, Oct. 23 at noon at the school cafeteria. Tickets will be sold at the door.
