Bob McClain receives Whiteoak Athletics Outstanding Volunteer Achievement Award
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Courtesy of Whiteoak Athletic Department-
Longtime Whiteoak scorekeeper, scoreboard operator and announcer Bob McClain was honored with the Whiteoak Athletics Outstanding Volunteer Achievement Award Saturday night during the varsity boys basketball game against Ripley.
McClain has also been named the 2021-22 recipient of the Southeast District Athletic Board’s Friend of the Youth Award, which will be presented to him during the district basketball tournament.
McClain has been a fixture at Whiteoak sporting events for close to 50 years. For 33 of those years, he has served the Wildcats as a bookkeeper, scoreboard operator, announcer and even bus driver. He started keeping the scorebook for the boys basketball team in 1989 and then took on the girls scorebook as well in the mid-’90s.
By the late 1990s, McClain was running the scoreboard and announcing for all basketball, volleyball and baseball teams at Whiteoak. If somehow he ends up with an evening that he is not at a home game working a game, you will find him on the road supporting the ’Cats.
McClain has been a part of two Final Four teams (2002 Boys basketball and 2018 baseball) and six regional teams. He is fiercely loyal to his Whiteoak Wildcats.
For all of his time, his effort and his dedication to the Wildcats, the WHS department presented McClain with the Whiteoak Athletics Outstanding Volunteer Achievement Award. On behalf of the Bright Local School District, they would like to thank McClain for all of his support and all of his effort over the many years of service to the community, the school district and to Whiteoak’s athletic programs.
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McClain has also been named the 2021-22 recipient of the Southeast District Athletic Board’s Friend of the Youth Award, which will be presented to him during the district basketball tournament.
McClain has been a fixture at Whiteoak sporting events for close to 50 years. For 33 of those years, he has served the Wildcats as a bookkeeper, scoreboard operator, announcer and even bus driver. He started keeping the scorebook for the boys basketball team in 1989 and then took on the girls scorebook as well in the mid-’90s.
By the late 1990s, McClain was running the scoreboard and announcing for all basketball, volleyball and baseball teams at Whiteoak. If somehow he ends up with an evening that he is not at a home game working a game, you will find him on the road supporting the ’Cats.
McClain has been a part of two Final Four teams (2002 Boys basketball and 2018 baseball) and six regional teams. He is fiercely loyal to his Whiteoak Wildcats.
For all of his time, his effort and his dedication to the Wildcats, the WHS department presented McClain with the Whiteoak Athletics Outstanding Volunteer Achievement Award. On behalf of the Bright Local School District, they would like to thank McClain for all of his support and all of his effort over the many years of service to the community, the school district and to Whiteoak’s athletic programs.
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