You might call them the 4-M Club or maybe the Mason(ic) Hall of Fame, but four graduates of Logan County schools whose last names begin with M are about to become Logan County Athletic Boosters' Athletic Hall of Famers as this month ends.
To be inducted between games of the Jan. 31 Clash of the Cats are Ethan Meguiar (LCHS Class of 1991) and three Masons—Clarence (Olmstead 1974), Grace (Olmstead 1978) and Cameron (LCHS 2005).
Clarence and Gracie Mason are brother and sister. Cameron is their distant cousin.
Ethan Meguiar is one of Kentucky’s most successful active baseball coaches and is already in the state Hall of Fame.
A condensed look at the four inductees follows:
Cameron Mason won the Class AAA Triple Jump state championship as a junior in 2004. His gold-medal-winning hop-skip-and-jump distance was 44’ 3.85”, less than an inch over the runner-up. He did this about three months after first learning the intricacies of triple jumping.
In the regional triple jump event in Henderson County, he was gold medalist with a leap of 43’11”. Senior Brandy ‘Booty’ Osborne also qualified for state in the triple jump and finished ninth at state. Earlier in the season, Mason won SKY with a 42’5”.
Greg Howard was his track coach and also his coach on the basketball team, where Cam was also a key player.
Just as he had mastered the triple jump quickly, Mason decided to play golf his senior season. He generally was among the top two scorers on the team, shooting 40 or below in most matches.
His fellow 2025 Hall of Fame inductee, Ethan Meguiar, was his golf coach.
Cameron Mason then ran track for WKU.
Clarence Mason
Clarence Mason was the most dominant player in 13th District boys basketball in the first half of the 1970’s. He was voted Player of the Year for the first two seasons the Logan Leader honored players from the five Logan County schools and Russellville.
The first year he was chosen MVP in 1973, he beat out the late Ed ‘Fido Jones of Adairville, who is a Logan County Hall of Famer. Other first team selections were Eddie Shelton of Lewisburg, Mike White of Auburn and Morris Kisselbaugh of Russellville.
The next year, 1974, boys basketball may have been at its best overall before consolidation. He won MVP in competition with Russellville’s Kisselbaugh, Charlie Richardson and Phil Todd, Lewisburg’s Shelton and Steve Cauley, and Auburn’s Barry Blakey and Carl Hayden. Mason averaged 18 points and 15 rebounds a game.
After leading Coach Gary Shelton’s Ramblers to successful seasons, Clarence Mason and his OHS teammate, the late Tyrone Sydnor, played junior college basketball for Vol State. Mason then went on to play his last two seasons for Austin Peay State University where he logged extensive playing time. He hit a free throw at the end of a game to clinch a narrow Governors’ victory over Western Kentucky.
Olmstead didn’t have a track team when Clarence was in high school, but he became a key performer on the APSU track team.
Grace Mason Woodard
Known as Gracie Mason when she played for the Olmstead Ramblerettes, she was the first star basketball player in Logan County when girls’ basketball was reborn in Southcentral Kentucky after 43 seasons in 1974-75.
She led Olmstead to the first four 13th District championships and the regional tournament all of her high school years, usually leading the county in scoring.
Gracie Mason was named the Leader’s MVP in three of those four seasons. Auburn’s Linda Torrence (Williams) was the other winner of that honor in 1977.
Joining Mason and Torrence as first teamers in those four years were Janite Snell and ReJeana Green of Chandlers, Lisa Howlett, Connie Beal and Hattie Sydnor of Russellville, Brenda Hurt and Nena Gilliam of Lewisburg, Janet Nobbin of Adairville, and Mary Woodard of Auburn.
She also did track and field for Olmstead and qualified for state in the high jump even though Olmstead School didn’t have a track, hurdles or a high jump pit. She didn’t place at state, but if she had repeated her 5’0” leap from region she would have tied for fourth at state. Her track and basketball teammate Diana Grinter won the state in hurdles. Now they will be teammates in the Logan Hall of Fame. Lugene Rogers was their coach.
Mason was also coached in basketball by Denny Milam and the late Gary Shelton.
Gracie Mason was also the first Logan County girls basketball player to play college basketball. She played for Kentucky Wesleyan.
Ethan Meguiar has been involved in Logan County High School Athletics in all but five of the past 34 years He spent those five years either playing record-setting baseball for Campbellsville University or serving as a graduate student coach a fifth year.
He played Cougar baseball from 1987-91, including as a starter on Coach David Billingsley’s 1989 regional championship/state quarterfinalist team. As a senior, he won the infield Golden Glove while stealing 38 bases. He played basketball as a freshman for Coach Barry Reed and football as a senior for Coach Mark Allen. He was second on the team in tackles and was Special Teams Player of the Year.
He has been head coach of Cougar baseball since the 1997 season (spring sports weren’t played in 2020 because of Covid). He won his 500th game in 2022 and has a 547-332 record going into the 2025 season, an average of 20-12 per season. His teams have captured a regional championship and 11 district titles while finishing as regional runner-up twice. The Cougars have reached region in 19 straight seasons and all but three of the years Ethan Meguar has coached them in the district tournament.
So far 61 of his players have signed to play college baseball. Several of them have played in the NAIA World Series, including his son, Braxton Meguiar, an NAIA All-American who has played in three World Series so far.
Ethan Meguiar, who has been named Fourth Region Coach of the Year twice, was elected to the Kentucky High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2018.
Meguiar also was highly successful as LCHS’ golf coach/ for 15 seasons, often competing against his brother-in-law, Russellville’s Dennis Pardue. One of his Lady Cougars, Katherine Neeley, was state champion and then went on to win the NAIA national championship at Lipscomb University. Five other Logan golfers coached by Meguiar qualified for state.
Meguiar was also on the coaching staff of the Cougars’ boys basketball 1998 regional runner-up team. Ray Maggard was head coach.