By Sunday, Craig Patterson will have a new title: Oklahoma Coaches Association Hall of Fame Inductee.

The former Kingfisher High School boys basketball and girls golf coach and athletic director is set to join the OCA Hall of Fame this Saturday night.

The induction ceremony is 6:30 p.m. at the Southern Hills Marriott in Tulsa.

Patterson will be joined in the 2023 hall of fame class by Jerry Bates of Tuttle, Billy Jack Bowen of Silo, Will Ethridge of Edmond Santa Fe, Kevin Harrington of Lawton MacArthur, Gary Hendrix of Fort Gibson, Samuel Horsechief of Tahlequah Sequoyah, Mark Hudson of Preston, Jarrett Hurt of Claremore and Linda Wiginton of Altus.

Patterson coached 17 of his 36 years in Kingfisher.

His KHS boys basketball teams reached the state tournament four times during his 12 years and went 213-104.

In all, Patterson was 442206 during his career.

Patterson’s girls golf teams won three consecutive state championships from 2008-10 and made multiple other state tournament appearances.

The ceremony is one of the first big events to kick off the annual OCA clinic and All-State games, which will take place throughout the week.

Multiple local athletes have been selected to play in those games.

That will begin Monday when Kingfisher’s Tristun Burnham will play for the West in boys golf.

That will tee off at 8:30 a.m. at Cherokee Hills Golf Club.

Girls basketball is Wednesday at Sapulpa High School.

Okarche’s Emma Stover and Lomega’s Darcy Roberts will play for the Small West. That game tips at 7 p.m.

Kingfisher’s Caden Kitchens and Xavier Ridenour will play for the Large West in boys basketball on Thursday.

The large-school game will begin at 8:30 p.m. at Sapulpa.

The annual football game will be 7 p.m. Friday on the campus of Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee.

Kingfisher offensive lineman Wrigley Kennedy will suit up for the West team.

( Ed. Note: Rosters for all sports are subject to change.)