The architect of the Page basketball program will be inducted into the NCHSAA Hall of Fame during a ceremony at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center at UNC. Also scheduled to be honored:
-Charlie Adams, the long-time executive director of the NCHSAA who has been on the staff of the Association since 1967 after a great career as an athlete and coach
-the late Bill Bost, who built the Bandys High School basketball programs in Catawba County, coaching both the men's and women's teams, into a power
-Ken Browning, veteran assistant football coach at the University of North Carolina who won 214 games as a high school head coach at Ledford and Northern Durham
-Richard Hicks, an outstanding athlete, coach and administrator who is a former president of the NCHSAA and a former principal at Hillside High School in Durham
-Jan Stanley, one of the top volleyball coaches the state has ever produced and is on her way to 700 career victories and has five state titles at West Henderson
-Tim Stevens, one of the nation's top media representatives who has been covering high school sports since he began at the Raleigh Times in 1973 and now at the Raleigh News and Observer
-Billy Widgeon of Morehead City, who coached a variety of sports but rolled up a 107-game winning streak as the women's basketball coach at Bailey before he headed to West Carteret
Congrats to Coach Morris on a well-deserved honor.
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