Wilt Browning, a member of the Board of Directors of the NC Sports Hall of Fame since 1997, began a two-year term as President of the Hall on January 1, 2007. 

Browning spent most of his professional career as a newspaper writer in Atlanta, Greensboro, and Asheville.  He stepped away from his typewriter for over five years as the public relations director for the Atlanta Falcons and later with the Baltimore Colts.   

He was the first Atlanta Braves beat reporter for the Atlanta Journal, covering the Braves for their first six seasons in Atlanta.  He became the executive sports editor of the Atlanta Constitution, before relocating to Greensboro. 

Browning was sports editor of the Greensboro Daily News and Greensboro Record before their merger into the News & Record.  During the 1980’s and 1990’s he was the lead sports columnist for the News & Record.  He was named North Carolina’s Sportswriter of the Year five times.

His newspaper career ended with his retirement in 1998 as the sports editor of the Asheville Citizen-Times.

In 2001, Browning was inducted into the South Atlantic League Hall of Fame.

Browning is also the author of four books including "Linthead," the story of growing up in a Southern mill village; "Deadly Goals" about a college football player serving a life term in a Virginia prison for murder; "Saying Goodbye," a collection of colums about well-known and lesser-known people in sports; and "The Rocks," the story of the Granite Falls, NC baseball team of 1951 which was the worst team in the history of professional baseball.  A fifth book, "Come Quittin' Time," is due out in the spring of 2007 and is a sequel to "Linthead."

Many years ago, Browning attended Furman University. He is an Air Force veteran. He and his wife Joyce live in Kernersville and spend their time admiring their eight grandsons and a growing list of great-grandsons and great-granddaughters.  In 2006, Wilt and Joyce celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.