![]() The eight tournaments last year where our sponsorships totaled about $60,000, but the overall economic impact was more than $2.5 million dollars.” “I’m trying to expand the horizon of what we can do. “We were able to acquire a half-marathon and our first triathlon last year at the lake,” he says. Worsham has helped put together more advertising to bring more crappie tournaments to town as well as diversify with the National Fox Hunters to have events in Grenada. ![]() We’re very excited to have travel ball tournaments on six fields – baseball and softball with turf infield right by exit 208 (I-55).” “It’s under construction and will hopefully be finished in March of 2023. ![]() “I organized an effort to have a new sports complex built,” he says. The Grenada native remembers being five years old and “my father taking me out to Grenada Lake and it still being in the construction phase. They are continually making improvements to that with trails and opportunities to be outdoors in a unique setting.”Īfter spending forty-five years with Regions Bank, Worsham retired and then took on the challenge after being on the tourism board and even serving as chairman. Then there’s camping with Hugh White State Park and the Dogwood’s Golf Course and bike trails, hiking trails, and downtown at the Lee Tartt Nature Preserve, there is kayaking and canoeing. “Grenada Lake is the centerpiece of that and with it being the number one crappie fishing lake in America it is a huge draw for us. “Our logo says, ‘go outdoors.’ I tell anyone and everyone if there’s anything you like to do outdoors, we have got it,”says Worsham. As the Executive Director Grenada Tourism for the past five years, he’s busy each day promoting the organization’s motto – Grenada is anything and everything outdoors. When the crappie are biting, Gary Worsham’s job gets easier.
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