Five former Logan County High School athletes will become the newest members of the Logan County High School Athletic Booster Club Hall of Fame Friday night. One of them comes in as an ultra-successful coach.
The ceremony will be held between games of the Clash of the Cats. The Russellville Lady Panthers will visit the Logan County Lady Cougars in the opener with the boys teams of the crosstown rivals clashing after the Hall of Fame activities.
WRUS will broadcast both games on 610 AM, 104,9 FM, the WRUS App, and on the web at https://streema.com/radios/WRUS
LCHS Golf Coach Will McKenzie will be the announcer for the ceremony, which will be played on the scheduled date because of the Panthers having ended their All A Classic run Thursday. Representatives of the event’s sponsor, First Southern National Bank, will assist with the trophies.
The following are the inductees and their credentials for Hall of Fame membership in order of graduation from LCHS.
Steven Lyne (LCHS ’88) was a number one tennis player in the early days of Cougar tennis. It is, however, as a team founder, architect and coach that has earned him inclusion in the Logan County Athletic Booster Hall of Fame.
When the Lady Cougar volleyball team was formed in the earlier years of this century, Coach Tina Baker hired Lyne and Rob Imlay as assistant coaches. In the midst of a successful run, she moved on to other roles in the system, Lyne became head coach in 2011 with Imlay his top assistant. They had been responsible for creating the highly successful middle school volleyball feeder system.
During those eight years, the Lady Cougars won 216 matches and lost 90. He returned as head coach this season, and his team went 23-12, won the district and reached the regional semifinals. His current record is 239-102 as the head LCHS coach. His teams have won the district all nine years and have won the region twice, winning matches at state both times. He also coached another regional finalist team and five semifinalist teams. He was named Fourth Region Coach of the Year in 2013, 2016 and 2018.
Logan County Volleyball has won 23 consecutive district championships and hasn’t lost a match to a district opponent since the 2004 season. There’s not likely to be another team in any sport in Kentucky to match that record.
He is co-founder of Mid South Volleyball Academy/MSVA and has trained and coached hundreds of girls in this community.
Presenting his Hall of Fame plaque will be retired LCHS Principal Bob Nylin.
Sarah Higgins Cheaney (LCHS ’95)
Sarah Higgins’ family was and still is firmly part of Russellville High School Athletics. Yet at the semester break of her freshman year, she and her family decided for her to transfer to Logan County.
She played all-district basketball for the Lady Cougars all four years and learned countless fundamentals from her new coach, the late Mike Haynes, also a Logan County Athletic Boosters Hall of Famer..
Higgins had one of the greatest games in Lady Cougar history her senior year, scoring over 40 points in a win over Hopkinsville.
Higgins was named all-region her senior year.
Her greatest honor was being named to the Kentucky All-Star team which plays Indiana twice each year after the season is over.
She was a key member of the Murray State University basketball team all four seasons, finishing in the top five in scoring in three of them. In her junior season, she was first in assists and second in both scoring and rebounding.
Presenting her Hall of Fame plaque to Sarah Higgins will be her daughter, Loreal Cheaney.
Travis ‘Boo’ Williams (LCHS ’98) was an all-tournament performer on the Cougars’ last regional finalist team to date in 1997. He helped the Cougars reach the regional tournament each of his final three seasons, and he was named all-district twice. He was selected to play in the Executive East/West All-Star Game as a senior.
His most memorable high school game came as a senior when he scored 26 points and grabbed 21 rebounds in a triple-overtime win over Warren Central.
Boo started his collegiate basketball career at Morehead State University and is one of only four Cougar boys to play NCAA basketball in the program’s 43-year history.
He excelled, though, when he transferred to Faulkner University in Alabama and led his team to NAIA National Championship in 1991. He averaged a double-double in scoring and rebounding both years he was there and was named All-Conference once and All-Tournament twice. He’s a member of the Faulkner University Men’s Basketball Hall of Fame.
As an adult he is in upper management with Spectrum in Louisville, and is a highly successful coach of elite-level teams. He currently coaches AAU ball with professional stars Rajon Rondo and Dana Evans.
Presenting his Hall of Fame plaque to Travis ‘Boo’ Williams is his mother, Linda Williams.
Kelley Jordan (LCHS ’03)
When Kelley Jordan began his Cougar career at Logan County High School in the fall of 1999, he established a record of sorts that can only be tied, not broken. He was a starter in the first game/match of every sport he played as a freshman. That would be golf, basketball and baseball.
He became a pacesetter in golf as the first Cougar to qualify for the state tournament. In the 23 seasons since his graduation, only three other LCHS boys golfers have been able to duplicate that feat.
His other golf achievements:
7 yr. Letterman Varsity player
All Region, All District
Regional Runner up individual (Tied 1st lost in playoff)
Tied for 8th at state
2004 State Am Qualifier. (Finish Top 15)
All-time leader in matches and tournaments played for a career within the program.
His basketball achievements:
All Region, All District
30 points shy of 1,000 for his career.
Averaged 17 points per game senior year
Hall of Fame Coach Ethan Meguiar’s 2000 lineup was loaded but didn’t have was a shortstop. Coach Meguiar inserted the freshman in the varsity lineup, a spot he manned for four seasons.
That 2000 team became Logan’s first to beat Franklin-Simpson since Coach Greg Sheleton’s Wildcats had been reassigned to the 13th District. The Cougars beat F-S twice during the season and a third time in the district finals. They made it to the regional finals but lost to Shelton’s Wildcats this time.
Meguiar’s Cougars had a 77-46 won-lost record and three district championships with Jordan as the shortstop.
His achievements in baseball:
All Region, All District
East/West All-Star Game
As a senior, he had .420 batting avg, 14 doubles, 23 rbi, 29 runs scored, .564 OBP.
3 yr. Gold Glove award winner
Kelley Jordan played golf for Campbellsville University his freshman year and was named all-conference, but her transferred to Brescia University where he played baseball for four years. He was all-conference baseball, too.
Kelley is a former Cougar head golf coach and assistant soccer and tennis coach. He is now Cougar middle school baseball coach; his five teams have won a district championship and been runner-up four times.
Presenting his Hall of Fame plaque to Kelley Jordan will be Paul Wright.
Kerra Cornist (LCHS ’18)
With all the success Lady Cougar Volleyball has achieved, only two have gone on to play collegiately for NCAA Division I universities. The first was Kerra Cornist in the fall of 2018.
Cornist was an integral part of four district championship teams at LCHS coached by Steven Lyne. Her freshman team had a 29-9 record. Three regional semifinalist seasons later, Cornist had 329 kills and 79 blocks. Her teams won 105 matches and lost 47 during her four years as a Lady Cougar.
She set five school records up to that time in Lady Cougar Volleyball. Her high school accomplishments include setting school records for hitting percentage, blocks in a match, kills in a match, and kill percentage twice. She became only the second Lady Cougar to record over 1,000 kills in her career.
Kerra Cornist was repeatedly all-district plus all regional tournament. She was named Regional Player of the Year as a senior and honorable mention all-state.
After playing a season at Evansville in which she led the team in blocks, she transferred to Oakland University in Michigan, also a Division I school.
College: University of Evansville / Oakland University
a. Evansville – Led in Blocks (71) and Blocks per set
b. Oakland- 3rd in the Horizon League in Blocks per set
Presenting her Hall of Fame plaque to Kerra Cornist will be her mother, La’Shall Blakey.
These are the newest members of the Logan County High School Athletic Boosters Hall of Fame, the Class of 2026.