Brad Faircloth of Greensboro, Gilbert Ferrell of WIlson, Bruce Hardin of
Charlotte, Jim Maxwell of Durham, Vickie Peoples of Raleigh, Pete Stout of
Salisbury and Carolyn Shannonhouse of Cary have been named as the 23rd group of
inductees to join the prestigious hall. That brings to 125 the number enshrined.
The new inductees will be honored during special halftime ceremonies at a
football game at Kenan Stadium on Saturday, November 14, when North Carolina
takes on Miami. The University of North Carolina has designated the day as the
25th annual NCHSAA Day. The new class will officially be inducted at the special
Hall of Fame banquet next spring at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center at the
University of North Carolina.
The NCHSAA Hall of Fame has been supported by a special grant from
GlaxoSmithKline.
"These individuals joining the Association Hall of Fame this year have
definitely had a tremendous impact on high school athletics across North
Carolina," says NCHSAA associate executive director Rick Strunk, who coordinates
the Hall for the Association. "Their records are certainly impressive, but the
character they exemplified and the lives they touched are really representative
of what the NCHSAA stands for. Their selection maintains the high standards of
excellence established by previous inductees, and we are proud to honor these
deserving individuals."
Brad Faircloth
Bradley Faircloth is one of the top officials that North Carolina has ever
produced.
A graduate of Greensboro Senior (now Grimsley) High School and Duke
University, for almost 20 years Faircloth worked as the coordinator of football
officials and chief financial officer for the Atlantic Coast Conference. But he
also enjoyed an outstanding career as a high school official, working NCHSAA
championship games in football, basketball and baseball as well as the 1965
Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas. As a college football official he worked seven
bowl games, including the 1982 Cotton Bowl.
He received a Distinguished Service Award from the NCHSAA in 1995 and a year
later was inducted into the National Football Foundation and College Hall of
Fame.
Faircloth has also been very involved with civic and church activities in the
Greensboro area, including once serving as general chairman of the Greater
Greensboro Open golf tournament.
Gilbert Ferrell
Gilbert Ferrell enjoyed a stellar 38-year career as a teacher, coach, and
athletic administrator.
Born in Wilson, he was a graduate of Charles Coon High School there and then
graduated from Atlantic Christian College. He spent the bulk of his career in
Wilson County, including 20 years as head baseball coach at Wilson Fike, during
which his team won the state 4-A title in 1968 and a total of 215 games, and 13
years as athletic director there.
From 1978 through '94, he was athletic director for the Wilson County school
system. He served as president of the North Carolina Athletic Directors
Association in 1978 and twice was named the state's Athletic Director of the
Year.
Gilbert is a member of the Fike Senior High School Hall of Fame and the NCADA
Hall of Fame. He has also received numerous awards and recognition from the
NCHSAA.
Bruce Hardin
Bruce Hardin has been a very successful football coach at both the high school
and collegiate level.
A graduate of Chase High School who earned his undergraduate degree at
Appalachian State, Hardin's teams have earned two state football titles and
three runner-up finishes in 27 years as a high school head coach. Most recently
he has been the head coach at Marvin Ridge High School, but he has also served
as Charlotte Providence (2001-03), Kannapolis A.L. Brown (1989-2000). West
Charlotte (1980-89) and Charlotte Hardin (1977-80), after serving as an
assistant coach at Charlotte Olympic for 10 years.
He also served as an assistant coach at The Citadel and at the United States
Military Academy, the latter from 2003-07).
Bruce served as head coach in both the North Carolina Coaches Association
East-West game and the Shrine Bowl. He also was recognized by the NCHSAA with
both coach of the year and athletic director of the year awards at various
times.
Jim Maxwell
Jim Maxwell has made significant contributions to high school athletics in a
couple of different ways.
A native of Hampton, Va., Jim attended Randolph-Macon College and then the
Duke University School of Law. He has been the NCHSAA's legal counsel for many
years. But he has also achieved fame as one of the top swimming coaches our
state has ever had.
Maxwell was the volunteer head coach at Durham Jordan throughout his 29-year
coaching career, coaching both the men's and women's teams. His squads earned
five state championships and finished as state runners-up an additional eight
times. He directed a regional swimming and diving championship for 19 years and
the state meet for 15.
In addition, the veteran coach served as chairman of the National Federation
Swimming and Diving Rules Committee for four years after three years as a
committee member.
Vickie Peoples
Vickie Peoples was an outstanding high school athlete in Iowa who really made
her mark as a coach in North Carolina.
Peoples was an Iowa high school state finalist in swimming and diving and
then a Big Eight gymnastics champion at Iowa State. But it is her stellar career
as both the men's and women's swimming and diving coach at Raleigh Enloe from
1982 to 2007 that propelled her to the Hall.
Her swimming teams won a total of 10 NCHSAA state championships, with nine of
those earned by her men's teams. The Eagles also captured 18 regional crowns and
27 conference titles under her tutelage. She served as the director of the
Eastern Regional in swimming and diving for 20 years. She was Teacher of the
Year at Enloe in the 2004-05 academic year.
The City of Raleigh proclaimed May 1, 2007, as Enloe Swimming and Diving Day
in her honor.
Pete Stout
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 Œ86, where he was a four-year
letterwinner in football and baseball during his playing days, Stout had stints
at Altamahaw, Western Alamance, Salisbury Boyden, Burlington Williams and
Morganton Freedom High Schools. In 28 years as a head coach in high school he
rolled up a record of 234-63-14 with two NCHSAA state 3-A championships and a
pair of runner-up finishes. At Burlington Williams his teams compiled a
then-state record of 43 consecutive wins.
Stout is a member of the Rowan County Sports Hall of Fame and the Catawba
College Sports Hall of Fame. He was born in Alamance County and attended Haw
River High School.
Carolyn Shannonhouse
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 to Wake County, where she coached at Broughton for a year and then
at Cary, serving as head coach in both women's tennis and women's basketball,
for eight years.
In her role with the NCHSAA, she supervises the women's sports and
combination (those sports played by both men and women, such as soccer or
tennis) as well as the invitational cheerleading championships, interpreting
playing rules and eligibility. She has also held important roles at the national
level, serving on a couple of National Federation sports rules committees.
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.