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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
