Jerry Steele 2002
Coach Bones McKinney’s first recruit at Wake Forest, won 609 games in 31-year college coaching career at Guilford and High Point. The Sports Center at High Point is named for him and wife, Kitty. [more...]
* Paul Sykes 1992
Coached Durham High School basketball team to 7 state titles, 9 straight conference crowns and one national schoolboy championship, posting remarkable record of 464-37. Bones McKinney’s high school coach. [more...]
* Clarence Gaines 1978
Spent 38 years as basketball coach and athletic director at Winston-Salem State. The second coach at a four-year institution to win 800 games. Inducted into National Basketball HOF in 1982. [more...]
* Jim Valvano 1995
Coached N.C. State to NCAA basketball crown in 1983. Won 209 games and two ACC titles in 10 years as Wolfpack coach, compiled 14-7 record in eight NCAA appearances. ACC Coach of the Year 1989. N.C. State athletic director from 1986-89. [more...]
* Murray Greason 1967
Served as basketball coach at Wake Forest for 23 years, 1934-1957, winning 288 games, the most by any WF coach. Also head baseball and assistant football coach. Had outstanding record as a Wake Forest athlete, earning 12 letters. [more...]
Bobby Vaughan 1992
Elizabeth City State University’s first basketball coach at age 20. Won more than 500 games in 33 years, reaching national playoffs seven times. The ECSU physical education and athletic building was dedicated in his honor in 1980. Served as President of the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame 2005-06. [more...]
Mike Krzyzewski 2000
Led Duke to four NCAA basketball titles (1992, 1993, 2001, 2010) in 30 years as head coach of the Blue Devils. Won his 700th game in 2004-2005 season. Received John R. Wooden “Legends of Coaching” award in 2000. NCAA record 77 tournament wins. Won his 800th game on March 1, 2008. Coached US basketball team to gold medal in 2008 Olympics. [more...]
* Kay Yow 1989
One of premier NCAA women’s basketball coaches. During 34 year career at N.C. State her Wolfpack Women gave Yow 680 career wins, 5 ACC regular season titles, 4 ACC Tournament championships. Led 1998 team to NCAA Women’s Final Four. Coached United States women to Gold Medal in 1988 Olympics and 1986 Goodwill Games. Member Women’s Basketball HOF, and the Naismith Basketball HOF. Died January 24, 2009. [more...]
* Fred McCall, Jr. 1994
A three-sport star at Lenoir Rhyne. Played pro baseball before becoming basketball coach and athletic director at Campbell for 16 years. Invented the popular McCall Rebound machine and founded nationally known Campbell Summer Basketball Camp. Member Lenoir Rhyne HOF. [more...]
* Virgil Yow 1992
Coached Hanes Hosiery women’s basketball team to three National AAU championships in eight years. Three-sport star at High Point College and later coached its men’s basketball team for more than 20 years. [more...]
* John McLendon 1994
First coach to win three consecutive NAIA basketball titles (1957-59). Coached at North Carolina College and four other colleges before moving to AAU and pro ranks. Dr. James Naismith was college advisor. [more...]
Bob Harris 2006
The Albemarle native has spent more than three decades as the “Voice of the Blue Devils” for Duke football and men’s basketball. Harris is a three-time North Carolina Sportscaster of the Year and a past president of the Atlantic Coast Sportswriters Association. Among his professional honors are the Robert Marlowe and Ray Reeve Awards for sports broadcasting. [more...]
* Bunn Hearn 1993
Baseball coach at UNC-Chapel Hill for 27 years where his teams captured six Southern Conference championships. Played six years in the majors as a pitcher with Cardinals, Giants, Pirates and Braves with a 13-24 record. [more...]
Ron Green, Sr. 2006
One of the distinguished North Carolina sportswriters, Green served as sports editor for the Charlotte News and as columnist for the Charlotte Observer for over two decades. He is a member of the NC Journalism and US Basketball Writers halls of fame and has been named national golf writer of year 3 times. Green has covered four Olympic Games, three British Opens, 25 Super Bowls, 25 US Opens and countless Final Fours plus 51 Masters. Named the 2006 recipient of the PGA of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The Charlotte resident is also the author of four books. [more...]
* Walter Rabb 1991
Coached UNC baseball team 23 years, with 528-342 record, and won four ACC championships. On UNC staff for more than 30 years, including time as assistant baseball coach and as an assistant athletics director. Member College Coaches HOF. Died April 4, 2006 in Chapel Hill at the age of 91. [more...]
Sam Moir 1999
Won two NAIA basketball championships during 34-year coaching career at Catawba College. His Mt. Airy High School teams won 8 league titles and the state 3-A crown with a 25-0 record. Surry County native also played 4 years of pro baseball. [more...]
Dean Smith 1981
Winningest coach in NCAA Division Ibasketball history, with 879-254 record at UNC-Chapel Hill in 36 seasons. His Tar Heels won two NCAA titles, played in Final Four 11 times, won 13 ACC crowns, led the ACC regular season 17 times, won 20 or more games 30 of last 31 seasons. Member College Basketball HOF. [more...]
* Darrell Floyd 2006
After earning All-America honors at Wingate Junior College in 1954, Floyd became a basketball legend at Furman. He led the NCAA in scoring his junior and senior seasons and was named a first-team All-America both years. Known for his long-range shooting, he averaged 32.1 points per game and is one of 4 Furman basketball players to have his jersey retired. Floyd scored a career high 67 points in 1955 and finished with over 40 points in 15 games with Furman. The Thomasville native died in 2000. [more...]
Jack Stallings 2001
Durham native who was head baseball coach for 39 years at Wake Forest, Florida State, and Georgia Southern. Seminoles finished second in 1970 College World Series. Enjoys international reputation as excellent baseball teacher. [more...]
Gerald Austin 2007
Austin is working his 25th year as an NFL official (referee since 1990) and has received a post-season assignment every year, including three Super Bowls. The former ACC official also serves as coordinator of officials for Conference USA. An Asheville native, Austin retired from public school administration. He is a graduate of Western Carolina and holds a doctorate from UNC-Greensboro. [more...]
Vic Bubas 1975
All-Southern guard at N.C. State before highly successful basketball coaching career. 213-67 record in 10 seasons at Duke with four ACC championships and three Final Four trips. ACC Coach-of-the-Year three times. Recipient of John Bunn Award. [more...]
Woody Durham 2005
Durham has been the “Voice of the Tar Heels” for over three decades. A native of Mebane, he grew up in Albemarle and began his broadcasting career with WZKY radio at age 16. The 1963 University of North Carolina graduate began his play-by-play duties at his alma mater in 1971. The Chapel Hill resident has been named North Carolina Sportscaster of the Year 10 times. [more...]
Charlie Bryant 2006
The Cary resident’s athletic career spanned nearly 50 years from a High Point High School basketball star on the 1950 state championship team to executive director for the Wolfpack Club at NC State upon his retirement in 1997. He also spent several years as a successful college assistant basketball coach for teams that won a combined total of nine ACC championships. He was a member of Bones McKinney’s staff at Wake Forest when the Deacons won the 3rd place NCAA trophy. Bryant also worked with Everett Case and Press Maravich at NC State University. [more...]
* Everett Case 1964
Compiled a record of 377 wins and 134 losses in 18 years as N.C. State basketball coach. Won 6 Southern Conference crowns and 4 ACC championships. Was ACC Coach-of-Year three times. Inducted into National Basketball HOF in 1982. [more...]
* Add Penfield 2005
One of North Carolina’s pioneer football and basketball radio play-by-play broadcasters. Penfield, a resident of Asheboro, called Duke and Wake Forest games, and he was behind the microphone for numerous North Carolina high school all-star game broadcasts from Greensboro and Charlotte. He was the Duke Sports Information Director when the Blue Devils hosted the 1941 Rose Bowl game in Durham. He died in Asheboro on April 30, 2010. [more...]
Dave Bristol 2006
Dave Bristol never made it to the major leagues as a player, but became a manager in the Cincinnati Reds farm system in 1957. He won the Pacific Coast League pennant as San Diego’s manager at the age of 31. He became the youngest major league manager in 1966 when he took over as skipper of the Reds. After three and a half years, Cincinnati fired Bristol, despite winning 53% of his games. He also managed at Milwaukee, Atlanta, and San Francisco. [more...]
George Whitfield 2005
His name is synonymous with high school baseball in North Carolina. During a 43-year coaching career in Goldsboro and Hamlet, Whitfield’s teams have won nearly one-thousand games. His winning percentage is .769 in both high school and American Legion play. In Hamlet, Whitfield won 8 state titles and was named National Coach of the Year in 1969 and 1974. He is currently an assistant baseball coach at East Carolina University. [more...]
* Bob Bartholomew 2006
Bartholomew excelled on the football fields from Rocky Mount to Canada before a knee injury ended his playing career in 1956. He earned All-State honors at Rocky Mount High School and was a three-time All-ACC selection at Wake Forest. The Deacons’ captain was named a first team All-America in 1954. He returned to Wake Forest in 1969 and served 16 years as the Executive Director of the Deacon Club. Bartholomew died in 1984. [more...]
Deborah A. Yow-Bowden 2006
The Gibsonville native has spent the past 16 years leading the athletic program at the University of Maryland to sixteentwenty NCAA national championships, while Terrapin athletes earned degrees at an enviable rate. Street and Smith’s Sports Business Journal called Yow one of the 20 most influential people in intercollegiate athletics. Prior to becoming Maryland’s Director of Athletics, Yow served in the same position at St. Louis University. Earlier she was a successful women’s basketball coach at Kentucky and Florida. Yow became the Director of Athletics at NC State University on July 15, 2010. [more...]
Charlie Adams 2006
Since 1984 Adams has led the North Carolina High School Athletic Association and molded the organization into one that is used as a national model. Following an outstanding high school athletic career in his native Cary, he played basketball at East Carolina University. He returned to Cary High School as a coach. He joined the NCHSAA as assistant director in 1967. [more...]
* Simon Terrell 2006
During his tenure as executive director of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association from 1967-1984, Terrell guided the mergers of both black and western schools with the NCHSAA. By 1975 the state’s high school athletes were playing for single state championships in all sports. Girls sports also gained statewide recognition under Terrell’s leadership. The Warrenton native was also a highly successful coach, leading Cary to a state basketball title in 1954. He died last August. [more...]
* Bill Brooks 1993
Coached Wilmington College/UNC-Wilmington baseball team to a 574-292 record in 27 years while playing within three different college levels. As AD guided Wilmington from NAIA to NCAA Division 1 level. Served at Wilmington for 40 years. [more...]
* Robert A. Fetzer 1965
Served as both track coach and athletic director at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1921 until 1952 where his teams ranked among best in country. He coached both football and track at Woodberry Forest and Davidson. [more...]
Joe Ferebee 2002
The winningest baseball coach in state history (1,438) who’s American Legion teams won 694 games. Had 677 victories as college coach at Pfeiffer, guiding Falcons to 20 conference crowns and five NAIA District titles. 42 players signed major league contracts. [more...]
Harvie Ward Jr. 1965
Nation’s premier amateur golfer in 1950s. Won ’49 NCAA championship while at UNC-Chapel Hill, won British Amateur in 1952 and back-to-back U.S. Amateur titles 1955-56. Also low amateur in Masters and U.S. Open. [more...]
Tony Waldrop 1977
Ran world indoor record 3:55 mile in 1974, one in a string of 11 consecutive sub-four-minute mile races. Six-time All-America at UNC-Chapel Hill and four-time ACC champion in mile run. Named ACC Athlete of the Year 1974. [more...]
Dave Sime 1967
One of the world’s premier sprinters while at Duke. One-time holder of seven world sprint records, plus Olympic 100-meter record of 10.1. Also played baseball and football at Duke. ACC Athlete of the Year in 1956. [more...]
* Buck Baker 1992
One of the dominant race car drivers in the early years of Winston Cup racing. Won 46 events, including three Southern 500’s. Captured the 1952 NASCAR championship series and the 1956 Winston Cup points title. [more...]
* Jack King 1979
One of nation’s outstanding skeet and trap shooters. Winner of 40 trap and 22 skeet championships. Posted a perfect score in the 1979. North Carolina Trap Shooting Championship at the age of 70. [more...]
* Floyd “Chunk” Simmons 1973
One of UNC-Chapel Hill’s all-time multi-event track greats. Won Bronze Medal in Olympic decathlon in 1948 and was Bronze Medal winner in 1952 Olympic decathlon. Also played some football at UNC. [more...]
* Dale Earnhardt 1994
Kannapolis native was one of the all-time top drivers on the NASCAR circuit. Winner of the 1998 Daytona 500 and 7-time Winston Cup champion. Won 76 races and $41 million in 26-year NASCAR career. [more...]
Jack Murdock 1990
Standout multi-sport star at Raleigh’s Hugh Morson High School and an All-ACC and All-America basketball star at Wake Forest. Coached Deacon cagers one year. A world-class softball player and member of N.C. Softball HOF. Also member Wake Forest Sports HOF. [more...]
* Harry Williamson 1999
First North Carolina Olympian who placed 6th in the 800 meters in 1936 in Berlin. Set a world record as member of a 2-mile relay team. High Point native was a miler at UNC who won Patterson Medal as school’s top athlete in 1935. [more...]
Ned Jarrett 1990
Among the leading all-time winners on the NASCAR Winston Cup circuit, and a two-time Grand National Champion. Prominent announcer for racing’s television and radio networks. Four-time winner of the Myers Award for contributing the most to auto racing. [more...]
Peggy Pate Chappell 1993
One of the nation’s 6 top breaststroke swimmers in America in the 1940s. Set numerous AAU and collegiate breaststroke records. Named Teague Award winner at age 14 in 1943 and again in 1944. [more...]
Anson Dorrance 2005
As the head women’s soccer coach at the University of North Carolina, Dorrance has led the Tar Heels to 18 NCAA titles and watched countless UNC players perform in international competition. He has earned National Coach of the Year honors six times, the latest in 2003 when his team finished 27-0-0. ACC Commissioner John Swofford says, “Dorrance may well be the single most successful coach in intercollegiate athletics.” [more...]
Junior Johnson 1992
Won 50 NASCAR races in 14 years as a driver. Later, as team owner, his cars dominated the Winston Cup circuit for many years. Only person named to National Motorsports HOF as both driver and owner. Named by Sports Illustrated as greatest NASCAR driver of all time. [more...]
* Prince Nufer Dixon 1998
Set swimming records in backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle between 1936-1945 after starting her career with the boys’ team at Goldsboro High. Set world 50-meter backstroke record in Chapel Hill (1941) and led UNC women to unbeaten season (1944). [more...]
* Lee Petty 1966
One of stock car racing pioneers, father of Richard and grandfather of Kyle. Won three NASCAR Grand National titles as a driver and in one 12-year period never finished lower than sixth. Voted NASCAR’s most popular driver three times. [more...]
* Peter Fogarassy 2005
A native of Hungary, Fogarassy escaped to the U-S during the 1956 revolution and was discovered by NC State swim coach Willis Casey at a national meet in Connecticut. Fogarassy never lost an ACC breaststroke event during his 4 years with the Wolfpack. He also set three U-S breaststroke records while at NCSU. A 3-time All-American, Fogarassy resides in Raleigh and still swims in Masters competition. [more...]
