Estes earned all-state honors in three sports for the Anaconda Copperheads: football, basketball, and track.

Estes was the Montana state class A champion discus and shot put thrower in his senior season.

Only Minneapolis Lakers Center Ed Kalafat, who racked up 1,561 points, outscored Estes while at Anaconda High School.

On the night of February 8, 1965, Wayne Estes played what would be the last game of his college career, against the University of Denver in the Nelson Field House.

—Play-by-play announcer Reid Andreasen, KVNU Radio, Feb. 8, 1965After the game, Estes and some friends stopped at the scene of a car accident near campus.

[2] In May 2013, Utah State University announced the construction of the $9.7 million Wayne Estes Center, which will serve as a practice facility for the Utah State University Aggies men's and women's basketball teams and house a competition venue women's volleyball team.