CHARLIE WARD AND FLORIDA STATE<\/p>\n
You can\u2019t discuss Florida State Athletics without Charlie Ward\u2019s name being mentioned. In the early 1990s, Ward was a staple in Tallahassee by being a dynamic athlete on the football field and basketball court. On Sunday, the Florida State Men\u2019s Basketball team decided to honor Ward by retiring his jersey and hanging it in the rafters of the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The retirement ceremony will take place in Sunday\u2019s exhibition matchups between Florida State and Florida A&M University, which is coached by Ward in his first season. A few days before the game, both Ward and Seminoles head coach Luke Loucks addressed the media, discussing the game and Ward\u2019s jersey retirement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI grew up a massive Charlie Ward fan,\u201d Loucks stated to the media. \u201cHe\u2019s one of the all-time great athletes in collegiate history,\u201d. Sunday was a day of celebration in Tallahassee. During his college tenure, Ward gave blood, sweat, and tears to the Florida State Athletic Program. Over 30 years later, he is finally getting his just due for the impact he had during his four seasons.<\/p>\n
Football was where Charlie Ward shone the brightest. He became a Heisman winner and led the Seminoles to a National Championship in 1993. While Ward had major success as a football star, basketball was always at the forefront. He was a high school star at Thomas County Central and chose to play at Florida State due to the development of the program.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLIE WARD AND FLORIDA STATE You can\u2019t discuss Florida State Athletics without Charlie Ward\u2019s name being mentioned. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-21709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}