List of Tensas Parish Athletes so far. Still looking for more detail on these and more athletes who graduated from Tensas Parish then played a sport in College and or Professional. Please send info so we can update the list. 1. Henry Bradley ..DHS ’73 - football...Alcorn State and Cleveland Browns. The second player drafted from Tensas Parish 2. Roy Bowman ...DHS -.basketball....Hinds and Grambling 3. Ivan Webb.....DHS - football....Grambling 4. Reginal Myles....Waterproof....football....Grambling 5. JJ Ellis...football..Grambling 6. John Petty....Newellton...football...Grambling 7. John McFarland...Waterproof....football...Grambling 8. James McFarland...Waterproof...football....Alcorn 9. Wilbert Lawrence...Waterproof. ..football....Alcorn 10. Juanita Reed.....basketball....Alcorn 11. Janice Clark....basketball...Grambling 12. Aaron Johnson....football...Mississippi Valley State. 13. Sheryl Strawder from Waterproof. ..Grambling State ? 14. Karen Golston, Newellton High, ULM Basketball 15. Chad McCarty, Tensas Academy 88, ULM Football 16. David Henry Parker, Tensas Academy 88, LA Tech Football 17. Susan Castle Gremillion - TA 88 - Hiwassee Jr. College Basketball 18. David Gamble, Tensas Academy, ULM Basketball 19. Channing Bergeron Newellton 04 Grambling baseball 20. Tommy Gregory - Basketball, LA TECH 21. Zelda Zelda Bowman - Utica college & Texas Southern 22. David Newman graduated TA in 1996 played at La Tech tight end from 1996-2001! Went to Tampa Bay, Oakland Raiders, New York Jets 23. Otha Bradley, Played at University of Southern California and went to Tampa Bay and 49er. He was the first football player drafted from Tensas and Henry Bradley was the Second. 24. Angel Fortenberry -TA- basketball - Delta State 25. Michael Snowden - NHS - Football – Arkansas – Tennessee Titans 26. Paul Grace – TA ’89 – Millsap’s Football 27. Dona Washington ...Newellton High... Southern University 28. Larry Perkins - Jackson State 29. Ronald Scott Higginbotham – NHS – Football - Mississippi Delta 30. Lamont King. Waterproof .. Louisiana Tech. 31. John petty Jr Grambling State Championship Jim Bowie BBQ Throwdown 32. Randy McDonald – NHS – Football – ULL 33. Ronald Vestal – NHS – Football – ULL 34. Edwin Pries – NHS – Football – ULL 35. Larry Sikes – NHS – Football – ULL 36. Allen Ray Bozeman – NHS – Football QB - NLU 37. Corey Jones – NHS – Football – Tulane 38. Chris Washington – NHS – Football – Tulane 39. Joe Allan McClain – NHS – Football – NLU 40. Victor King – NHS – Basketball – TECH 41. Cedric Williams – NHS – Football – TECH 42. Dorian Ford – NHS – Arena Football – Grand Rapids Rampage – Flint Phantom Port Huron Pirates – Michigan Lightning - Currently playing now -milightning or Michigan lightning on Facebook 43. Jerry Head – NHS – Football – NLU 44. Terry Head – NHS – Football – NLU 45. Buddy Emfinger – NHS – Football – LA College 46. Dorsey – NHS – Football - Mississippi Valley 47. Jake Ford – NHS – Track – NLU 48. Dale Hoover, Sr. (Red Hoover) – Davidson – Football – NLU 49. Kevin Grace – TA – Cross Country – Millsaps College 50. Travis Grace – TA – Football – Millsaps College 51. Stanley Hazelton – TA – Football – LA College 52. Andrea Smith – NHS - ??? 53. Robin Rae Burns – TA – Henderson/ Mississippi College – currently coaching at MC 54. Amanda Gales - ??? 55. Chris Snowden – Waterproof – Basketball – ULL 94-98 56. Henry Garner, DHS Class of 1974, Alcorn State University 57. James Edward Skinner, DHS Class of 1974 ??, Grambling State University ?? 58. Tredant Anderson DHS Class of 1986 or 87, Louisiana Tech 59. Jerry Martin – WHS - Coahoma Jr. College, Clarksdale, MS 60. Alice White – WHS - Coahoma Jr. College, Clarksdale, MS 61. Chan Crocket – WHS - Coahoma Jr. College, Clarksdale, MS 62. Andrea Smith (now Andrea Smith Young) graduated from Newellton High School in 1987 and played college basketball at Hinds Junior College (Uticia campus) and also at Texas Southern University 63. Ursula Morris (now Ursula Morris-Turner) graduated from Newellton High School in 1987 and played college basketball at Hinds Junior College (Utica Campus) and also at Talladega College. 64. Buddy Palmer – NHS – Louisiana College 65. Sonny Clark played QB at Southeastern LA. 66. Greg Williams, played at Alcorn State 67. Greg Williams Half Brother - Barry Hamilton, who played his senior year at Ruston High played at Tech 68. Jimmy Wesley-Newellton -McNeese 69. Keith Thomas-NHS- ULM 70. Jimmy Adams Jr. – NHS ‘78 71. Mike Adams – NHS ‘79 72. Tim Adams – NHS ‘82 73. ? Acker – NHS 74. Linda Harper – NHS’60 – NLU Indians – Later Coach of the NLU Lady Indians
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