Bobby Guthrie of Raleigh, Jack Huss of Rutherfordton, Lindsey Linker of Chapel Hill, Shelly Marsh of Smithfield, Dave Odom of Winston-Salem, Cindi Simmons of Webster, Sam Story of Burlington and Ron Vincent of Greenville have been named as the 27th group of inductees to join the prestigious hall. That brings to 156 the number enshrined.
The new inductees will be honored during special halftime
ceremonies at a football game at Kenan Stadium on Saturday, October 26, when
North Carolina takes on Boston College. The University of North Carolina has
designated the day as the 29th annual NCHSAA Day. The new class will officially
be inducted at the special Hall of Fame banquet next spring in Chapel Hill.
The NCHSAA Hall of Fame is supported in part by a special
grant from GlaxoSmithKline.
"These individuals joining the Association Hall of Fame
this year have had a tremendous impact on high school athletics across North
Carolina," said NCHSAA commissioner Davis Whitfield. "Their
accomplishments are impressive, but the character they exemplify and the lives
they touched are truly representative of what the NCHSAA stands for. Their
selection maintains the standards of excellence established by our previous
inductees, and we are proud to honor these deserving individuals."
Bobby Guthrie
Bobby Guthrie
Bobby Guthrie has excelled as a teacher and coach as well as
an administrator during his illustrious career.
Born in Alamance County, he attended Southern Alamance High
School and then graduated from University of North Carolina in 1974, where he
was an outstanding baseball player. He started his coaching career by working
three years at Scotland High, where he led his team to the NCHSAA state 4-A
baseball championship. Then Guthrie embarked on college coaching, including 13
years at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
After brief stints at Wilmington Laney and Apex, Guthrie
became the senior administrator for athletics for the Wake County schools and
earned a number of awards there.
A former member of the Boards of Directors of both the
NCHSAA and the North Carolina Athletic Directors Association, Guthrie has also
been recognized nationally for his contributions to coaches education. He was
the National Federation Coach Educator of the Year in 2010 and is in the
Southern Alamance Hall of Fame.
Jack Huss
Jack Huss has compiled an impressive slate as a high school and college coach but also has had a stellar career as an official.
Jack Huss
Jack Huss has compiled an impressive slate as a high school and college coach but also has had a stellar career as an official.
A graduate of R-S Central, Huss was an outstanding football
and baseball player at Lenoir-Rhyne College, graduating in 1969. He was one of
the youngest head football coaches in the country at the college level when he
coached at L-R from 1974 to 1980. He also served as head football coach at
Richmond Senior (1980-83), Hunter Huss (1985-86) and R-S Central (1987-95), and
also coached golf for 11 years and served as athletic director at R-S Central.
Huss began his officiating career while a college student
and had to step away while coaching college football. But he has officiated
high school basketball for almost 40 years in addition to six years at the
college level. He has worked five different NCHSAA state championship
basketball games and has called in five regionals and 30 sectional tournaments,
earning the NCHSAA Golden Whistle Award for officiating excellence in 2012.
Huss was inducted into the Lenoir-Rhyne University Sports
Hall of Fame in 1996.
Lindsey Linker
Lindsey Linker has become known as one of the top tennis coaches in the history of North Carolina.
Lindsey Linker
Lindsey Linker has become known as one of the top tennis coaches in the history of North Carolina.
A graduate of Myers Park in Charlotte and then the
University of North Carolina, Linker began her high school coaching at Chapel
Hill in 1981 and was there for 10 seasons. Coaching both men’s and women’s
teams there, her teams posted a 294-39 mark, won two NCHSAA state dual team
titles and had four individual state champs.
From 1998 through 2013, she guided the East Chapel Hill
tennis programs and continued her amazing success, with 11 individual state
champions and a whopping 14 state dual team titles to go with almost 600 victories.
She was named conference coach of the year during her career an incredible 39
times.
Linker has been very active in community activities and
fundraisers and was the NCHSAA Doris Howard Coach of the Year in 2010. She is a
founding board member of the North Carolina High School Tennis Coaches
Association.
Shelly Marsh
Shelly Marsh was an outstanding head coach in basketball at several different stops as well as a well-respected administrator.
Shelly Marsh
Shelly Marsh was an outstanding head coach in basketball at several different stops as well as a well-respected administrator.
Born in Chatham County, Marsh went to J.S. Waters High School
and then graduated from North Carolina A&T in 1965. He was successful at
every coaching stop, starting at W.H. Robinson High in Pitt County in the old
North Carolina High School Athletic Conference, with a record of 101-52, and
then from 1973 to ’84 at Greenville D.H. Conley, where his teams went 219-102.
He also coached at Havelock (158-81) and then at West Johnston, his final
coaching stop from 2004-08, with a 55-53 mark, to give him 533 career
victories.
Marsh also has been an assistant principal, principal and
most recently served as deputy superintendent in Johnston County.
He is a member of the Johnston County Hall of Fame and the
North Carolina Athletic Directors Association Hall of Fame and received the
Order of the Long Leaf Pine from North Carolina governor Mike Easley.
Dave Odom
Dave Odom had a stellar career as a collegiate basketball coach, after over a decade of success at the high school level.
Dave Odom
Dave Odom had a stellar career as a collegiate basketball coach, after over a decade of success at the high school level.
A three-sport star at Goldsboro High School, Odom went on to
Guilford College, where he was the school’s Athlete of the Year before
graduating in 1965. From 1965 through ’76, Odom coached in the high school
ranks, first at Goldsboro and then as head basketball coach at Durham.
Odom then moved to Wake Forest University as an assistant
coach and wound up serving as head basketball coach at East Carolina, Wake
Forest and South Carolina. His collegiate coaching mark as head coach was
409-274 and he guided teams to nine NCAA tournaments and six NIT events,
including winning three NITs and a pair of ACC tournaments. All during that
time, though, he remained supportive of efforts of the NCHSAA and even
participated in several special events.
He has been inducted into many Halls of Fame, including
Goldsboro High, Guilford College, Wake Forest, and the North Carolina Sports
Hall of Fame, among others.
Cindi Simmons
Cindi Simmons compiled a brilliant record as a coach in two different sports at Sylva-Webster and then Smoky Mountain High School when Sylva-Webster and Cullowhee merged.
Cindi Simmons
Cindi Simmons compiled a brilliant record as a coach in two different sports at Sylva-Webster and then Smoky Mountain High School when Sylva-Webster and Cullowhee merged.
A graduate of Hayesville High and then Western Carolina
University, Simmons was a star high school and college athlete. She captained
the WCU women’s basketball team in 1981-82 and was seventh on the school’s
all-time scoring list. She went on to coach volleyball 26 seasons and basketball
for 30, winning three state titles in volleyball and the 2007 NCHSAA 2-A title
in basketball.
Her career mark in basketball was a stellar 512-279, and she
won 11 conference championships and almost 400 matches in volleyball.
She has earned a number of previous honors, including the
NCHSAA’s prestigious Toby Webb Coach of the Year award in 2008. She was the
first female president of the North Carolina Coaches Association, during the
2005-06 academic year, and joined the Western Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame in
2000.
Sam Story
Sam Story has firmly established a reputation as one of the state’s top high school football coaches.
Sam Story
Sam Story has firmly established a reputation as one of the state’s top high school football coaches.
Story is a graduate of Burlington’s Walter Williams High
School, where he later guided some great football teams himself. He graduated
from Elon in 1969.
Story enjoyed a 40-year career as a coach and teacher,
including 29 as a head football coach. He began his high school coaching at the
old Gibsonville High for a year and then went to Southern Alamance.
He was athletic director and football coach at Southern
Alamance from 1973 to ’77, where his teams posted a great mark of 37-7. After
several years as an assistant at Duke, Story went back to Williams where the
Bulldogs rolled up a record of 201-98, including winning two NCHSAA 3-A state
championships. He also won six conference track and field championships at
Williams as a coach in that sport.
He coached in both the Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas and the
North Carolina Coaches Association East-West all-star games, and has been president
of the Alamance County Sports Council.
Ron Vincent
Ron Vincent has put together the most wins ever for a North Carolina high school coach in the sport of baseball.
Ron Vincent
Ron Vincent has put together the most wins ever for a North Carolina high school coach in the sport of baseball.
Vincent, a native of Greenville, graduated from J.H. Rose
High School in 1965 and then from East Carolina University in 1969. Then he
embarked on his remarkable teaching and coaching career, all in Pitt County as
well.
He coached for four years at Farmville Central and then came
to Rose in 1973. Since that time he has built the Rampants into a perennial
power, guiding his teams to an amazing record of 800-216, including a host of
championships at various levels. Rose has won a total of six NCHSAA state
baseball titles under Vincent, including crowns in 1975, 1997, ’99, 2003, ’04,
and ’08.
Vincent is a member of St. James United Methodist Church in
Greenville and has served on the Greenville Babe Ruth Board of Directors.The Hall of Fame plaques are on permanent display in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s Hall of Fame room, located in the Simon F. Terrell Building in Chapel Hill that houses the Association offices.
THE NCHSAA HALL OF FAME
Class of 1987 (Charter Members)
Bob Jamieson, Greensboro
Leon Brogden, Wilmington
Dave Harris, Charlotte
Class of 1988
Tony Simeon, High Point
Wilburn C. Clary, Winston-Salem
L.J. "Hap" Perry, Chapel Hill
Class of 1989
Russell Blunt, Durham
Lee Stone, Asheboro
Class of 1990
Bill Eutsler, Rockingham
Harvey Reid, Wilson
Jay Robinson, Chapel Hill
Simon Terrell, Chapel Hill
Class of 1991
Thell Overman, Wallace
Frank Mock, Kinston*
Raymond Rhodes, Raleigh*
Richard "Bud" Phillips, Greenville
Class of 1992
Everette L. "Shu" Carlton, Gastonia
George J. Cushwa, Jr., Thomasville
Norma Harbin, Winston-Salem
James G. "Choppy" Wagner, Washington*
Modeal Walsh, Robbinsville*
Everett L. "Shorty" Waters, Jacksonville
Henry Thomas "Toby" Webb, Albemarle
John W. "Jack" Young, Ahoskie*
Class of 1993
Frank Barger, Hickory*
Donald Bonner, Lumberton
George Whitfield, Hamlet
Class of 1994
George "Buck" Hardee, Wilmington
Doris Howard, Fayetteville
Bruce Peterson, Asheville
Homer Thompson, Winston-Salem
Class of 1995
Willie Bradshaw, Durham
Robert P. Colvin, Robbinsville
Joe Paul Eblen, Asheville
Augustus B. “Gus” Purcell, Charlotte
George W. Wingfield, Reidsville*
Class of 1996
Paul Gay, Sanford
John W. “Honey” Johnson, Elizabeth City*
Glenn Nixon, Clayton
Robert R. Sawyer, Greensboro
Class of 1997
Dr. Wiley “Army” Armstrong, Rocky Mount*
Chuck Clements, Gastonia*
David Lash, Winston-Salem*
Larry Lindsay, Wake Forest
Class of 1998
Gerald “Pearlie” Allen, Shelby
Norris “Pee Wee” Jones, Asheville
Bill Mayhew, Troutman
Dr. Craig Phillips, Raleigh
Mary Garber, Winston-Salem
Marvin “Red” Hoffman, Wilkesboro
Dr. Andy Miller, Asheville
Class of 1999
Charles "Babe" Howell, Webster
Paul Jones, Kinston
Jerry McGee, Elizabeth City
Jim Mills, Garner
Joe Mills, Raleigh
Donna Norman, High Point
Robert Paroli, Fayetteville
Class of 2000
Marion Kirby, Greensboro
Don Patrick, Newton
Hilda Worthington, Greenville
Charles England, Lexington*
Class of 2001
Jack Groce, Boone
Tom Northington, Greensboro
Walter Rogers, Roxboro
Wally Shelton, Mount Airy
John Swofford, Greensboro
Morris Walker, West Jefferson
Herb Young, Cary
Class of 2002
Cliff Brookshire, Brevard
Andrea Cozart, High Point
Bill Friday, Chapel Hill
Herman Hines, Reidsville
Bob Lee, Southern Pines
Ray Oxendine, Pembroke
Class of 2003
Gerald Austin, Greensboro
Pat Harrell, Hertford
Hoy Isaacs, Reidsville*
Raymond “Buddy” Luper, Fayetteville*
David Maynard, Burlington
Clarence Moore, Asheville*
Pres Mull, Lexington
Tom Pryor, Edneyville
Stuart Tripp, Ayden
Class of 2004
Mike Brown, Wilmington
John Clougherty, Raleigh
James “Rabbit” Fulghum, Snow Hill
Ed Peeler, Shelby
Ned Sampson, Pembroke
Dave Smith, Washington
Kathy Stefanou, Raleigh
Carroll Wright, Clyde
Class of 2005
Tim Brayboy, Cary
Jim Burch, Cary
Dick Knox, Chapel Hill
Tom McQuaid, Beaufort*
Mike Raybon, Jamestown
Class of 2006
Al Black, Spring Lake
Pat Gainey, Taylorsville
Charlie Gregory, Randleman
Tommy Hunt, Durham
Joan Riggs, Swansboro
Don Saine, Gastonia
Class of 2007
Stuart Allen, Charlotte
Daryl Barnes, Lexington
Bob Brooks, Elizabeth City
Bill Carver, Fayetteville
Elton Hawley, Charlotte
Fred Lanford, Hudson
Bill Rucker, Black Mountain
Ronald Scott, Bear Creek
Class of 2008
Charlie Adams, Chapel Hill
Bill Bost. Catawba*
Ken Browning, Durham
Richard Hicks, Durham
Mac Morris, Greensboro
Jan Stanley, Hendersonville
Tim Stevens, Raleigh
Billy Widgeon, Morehead City
Class of 2009
Brad Faircloth, Greensboro
Gilbert Ferrell, WIlson
Bruce Hardin, Charlotte
Jim Maxwell, Durham
Vicki Peoples, Raleigh
Pete Stout, Salisbury
Carolyn Shannonhouse, Cary
Class of 2010
Harvey Brooks, Trenton
Tunney Brooks, Lumberton
Tom Brown, Maiden
Bob Catapano, Raleigh
Joe Hunt, Hendersonville *
Carolyn Rogers, Hertford
Que Tucker, Morrisville
Class of 2011
Rosalie Bardin, Wilson
Sheila Boles, Wilmington
Jimmy Fleming, Creedmoor
John Frye, Vass
Jerry Johnson, Goldsboro
Mike Matheson, Newton*
John Morris, High Point*
Tom Suiter, Raleigh
Class of 2012
Donnie Baxter, Asheboro
Ronnie Chavis, Pembroke
Lawrence Dunn, Raleigh
Doug Henderson, Greensboro
Lindsay Page, Yanceyville
Larry Rhodes, Gastonia
Robert Steele, Salisbury
Jim Taylor, Shelby
*posthumous induction
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