Billy Widgeon has enjoyed tremendous success as a high school athlete, collegiate athlete and outstanding coach in several sports. He played on the 1953 NCHSAA state 1-A basketball championship team at Newport High and then was a two-sport standout at Atlantic Christian (now Barton) College, where he is in that school’s hall of fame. Widgeon…
Tim Stevens has had a stellar career as one of the outstanding high school sports writers in the state. A graduate of Garner High School and North Carolina Wesleyan, Stevens has written either for the Raleigh Times and then the Raleigh News and Observer since 1973 and has won a number of awards for his…
Jan Stanley has produced unbelievable records as a volleyball coach, but was also highly successful in women’s basketball. A graduate of Hendersonville High and Baptist (SC) College (now Charleston Southern), where she was a three-year basketball starter, Jan established West Henderson as a volleyball power. She is second all-time in state prep history in volleyball…
Mac Morris has made his mark not just as an outstanding high school basketball coach but also as the co-executive director of the successful North Carolina Coaches Association and its annual clinic. A graduate of Roxboro High and Davidson College, Morris served at Greensboro’s Page High School from 1968 through ’96, including a 25-year run…
Richard Hicks has made significant contributions to high school athletics as a coach and administrator. A graduate of Rocky Mount’s Booker T. Washington High and North Carolina College (now North Carolina Central), Hicks was an outstanding coach before moving into administration. He coached football, baseball and basketball at Booker T. Washington and then later was…
Ken Browning has emerged as one of the top football coaches in North Carolina at both the high school and collegiate level. Since 1993, he has served as an assistant coach on the football staff at the University of North Carolina in several different capacities and under several head coaches. Prior to that, he forged…
The late Bill Bost was one of the state’s outstanding basketball coaches and had the unique distinction of coaching men’s and women’s teams simultaneously to great success. Bost coached at the old Hiddenite High School from 1960 to ’69 and then forged a great record at Bandys in Catawba County from 1970 through ‘88. During…
Charlie Adams has served as executive director of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association since 1984 and has been on the NCHSAA staff since 1967. A star athlete at Cary High School and then at East Carolina University, Adams has created a number of innovations during his NCHSAA career, including implementing a corporate sponsorship…
Carolyn Shannonhouse compiled an outstanding record as a coach but has been instrumental in the growth of women’s sports as assistant executive director of the NCHSAA since July of 1986. Carolyn grew up in southeastern Virginia and attended Madison College (now James Madison University). She taught and coached in Virginia for six years before moving…
Pete Stout was a very successful high school football coach before he returned to his college alma mater to coach there. Prior to his coaching at Catawba from 1983 to ‘86, where he was a four-year letter winner in football and basketball during his playing days, Stout had stints at Altamahaw, Western Alamance, Salisbury Boyden,…
