Coach Craig Walker Sr. will be honored Saturday when the running track at Charleston High School is dedicated in his name.
Scheduled to get underway at 9 a.m. in Tiger Stadium, the ceremony will celebrate the Walker Track, a tribute to the longtime Charleston Middle School track and field coach who in the early 1980s also founded a local summer youth athletic organization, the Mississippi Roadrunners Track Club, that competed and won at venues around the country.
The public is invited to attend.
Walker, 81, is being lauded for his “unwavering dedication, commitment, and lasting impact on generations of student-athletes,” according to a flyer promoting the event.
The CHS track, which last year was demolished and rebuilt from the ground up, is now in pristine condition.
