Suzanne Grayson was an outstanding coach and athletic administrator during her career, primarily in the Cleveland County school system. Grayson attended Shelby High School and then graduated from Western Carolina University before beginning her teaching and coaching career. After several years at the middle school level, she had an 18-year stint at Crest and then…
Mac Cumbo compiled an impressive slate as a high school coach as well as an administrator. Cumbo, a graduate of Thomasville High School and Western Carolina University, began his teaching and coaching career at Flat Rock Junior High and was very successful before moving to the high school ranks He was head football coach and…
Gil Bowman distinguished himself as an outstanding coach in a couple of different sports as well as a great German teacher during his 41-year career at Terry Sanford High School in Fayetteville. Born in Stuart, Virginia, and a graduate of East Carolina, Bowman built Terry Sanford into both a women’s basketball power and a tennis…
Jerry Winterton compiled an amazing record as a wrestling coach that has drawn both statewide and national attention. A 1973 graduate of Brockport State in New York, Winterton’s record as the head wrestling coach at Cary from 1981 to 2010 is unmatched, although he also coached four years at East Wake and was an assistant…
Rick Strunk has been involved with high school athletics for almost 40 years, with his entire professional career involved with the media. After graduating from Newton-Conover High School, where he played basketball, Strunk attended the University of North Carolina on a prestigious Morehead Scholarship as well as a National Merit Scholarship. He was sports editor…
Moyer Smith had a stellar career as an athlete, coach, athletic administrator and fund-raiser, with his involvement in the NCHSAA primarily involving sponsorship and the Endowment. Smith was a standout athlete at Lexington High School and played in the Shrine Bowl before going to the University of North Carolina, where he played football and ran…
Chris Norman was an outstanding head coach in football as well as a well-respected athletic administrator. Born in Shelby, Norman attended Shelby High School and then graduated from Gardner-Webb College in 1984. After three years as an assistant coach at East Rutherford, Norman went to Shelby where he was a successful assistant coach before taking…
The late Joe Miller, who died unexpectedly earlier in the year, was an outstanding coach and athletic administrator, with his time in North Carolina at New Hanover High School and in the New Hanover County central office. Born in Sewickley, Pa., Miller graduated from Western Carolina University and began his coaching career in Georgia and…
Ralph Holloway has compiled an impressive slate as a high school coach as well as an administrator. Hollloway grew up in South Carolina and then attended Elizabeth City State University, graduating in 1975, with a master’s from East Carolina. He embarked on an outstanding teaching and coaching career, with stints at the high school level…
The late Jack Holley won more high school football games as a head coach than any other coach in North Carolina history. He was born in Ashton, NC, and then was an outstanding athlete at New Hanover High School in Wilmington, where he played on state championship teams in several different sports, before going to…
