MOREHEAD, Ky.— The Kentucky Track and Cross Country Coaches Association has selected Morehead State graduate and former track and field coach A.L. “Buck” Dawson as a Coaches’ Hall of Fame inductee in 2010.
Dawson is currently an assistant track and field and cross country coach at Montreat College. He was named the head track and field coach at MSU in 1973 and one year later was tabbed as the Ohio Valley Conference coach of the year. In 1977, he led the Eagles to an Indoor Track and Field OVC Title prompting Morehead State to name its track inside of Jayne Stadium the A.L. Buck Dawson Track, the name it still bears to this day.
“Buck was not only a standout coach and student-athlete while at Morehead State, but he has been successful at each stop in his career,” said MSU Director of Athletics Brian Hutchinson. “He has been honored several times over because of his commitment as a coach, an ambassador for track and cross country and most proudly for us, an alum of MSU. His induction into the KTCCA is well deserved.”
Dawson was inducted into the Morehead State Hall of Fame in 2001, the same year he was inducted into the West Virginia State University Hall of Fame for leading WVSU to five conference titles.
He also coached at Florida Southern and Warner Southern and he is a member of the Sunshine State Conference and the Polk County (Florida) Sports Hall of Fame.
A 1960 graduate of Morehead State, Dawson played on the Eagle football and baseball teams.
