Larry Ward, former Linfield Wildcats ‘voice’ receives award from University of Tennessee Chattanooga
Larry
Ward, a former radio ‘Voice’ of Linfield College Wildcats football
and men’s basketball, received the University of Tennessee Chattanooga’s (UTC) ‘Harold Wilkes Award ‘Oct. 21, 2022, in Chattanooga
during a banquet.
The award was established to honor
Wilkes and to recognize a volunteer, coach, staff member or University
administrator who has demonstrated exemplary leadership in furthering
Chattanooga Athletics.
Wilkes,
who died in 2017, was a former UTC head football coach and was UTC athletic
director for 20 years, 1970-1990.
Ward
is in his 25th year as the voice of UTC women’s basketball team. The long-time
play-by-play announcer of the Chattanooga Lookouts (pro baseball team), Ward
was recently inducted into the Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame. In 2016, he was
honored as being the first broadcaster inducted into the Southern League Hall
of Fame,” said UTC Sports Info.
