Bill Ward, a former Kosciusko High School coach, will be inducted into the Mississippi Association of Coaches (MAC) Hall of Fame Friday. Induction ceremonies will be at 6 p.m. at the Hilton Hotel in Jackson.
Ward is an Ackerman native. He spent three years at Kosciusko as head coach for track and girls’ basketball, and as an assistant football coach. He left Kosciusko for Pelahatchie, where he coached for 33 years, winning a state football championship in 2001.
In addition to his coaching duties, Ward served on the MAC Board of Directors for 13 years. He was the board's vice president for the 2013-14 academic year and president for 2014-15.
The other new members of the Hall of Fame are Danny Carlisle, Mike Gavin, Don Hinton and Anthony Jenkins.
Carlisle was Starkville baseball coach from 1984 to 2012, with three state championships. He will be inducted posthumously. Gavin was football coach at three Mississippi Gulf Coast schools for 18 years, with 110 victories. Hinton retired Dec. 31 after serving as executive director of the Mississippi High School Activities Association for nine and a half years. Jenkins was a long time football, track and powerlifting coach at Hernando.
