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Far from the roar of crowds they performed for, nine Guilford County athletes were honored Wednesday at NewBridge Bank not so much for the heights their careers took them, but for where they got their start.

A lanky basketball player from Page High, two football brothers from Smith. A former major league baseball player from Jamestown and six others were announced as the 2008 class entering the Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame.

Dr. Herb Appenzeller

During Appenzeller's 31-year tenure as Guilford College's athletics director, the Quakers captured national titles in men's basketball (1973) and women's tennis (1981). It was his vision that provided the impetus for the college to create one of the nation's first academic majors in sport management in the early 1980s.

Lynne Agee

UNCG's women's basketball coach recently completed her 27th season. She stands second in the state with a .686 winning percentage, trailing only North Carolina's Sylvia Hatchell (.734). Agee also ranks third in the state in career victories with 566, trailing Hatchell (751) and Kay Yow (708) of N.C. State.

Jeff Bostic

The Smith graduate starred for 14 seasons with the Washington Redskins, helping them win three of the four Super Bowls he played in. Bostic was one of "The Hogs," the famed offensive line that also included guards Russ Grimm and Mark May, tackles Joe Jacoby and George Starke, and a few other new additions through the years.

Joe Bostic Jr.

Jeff's older brother who played 10 seasons in the NFL for the St. Louis Cardinals as an offensive lineman. At Clemson, he was the cornerstone of the offensive line and was a two-time All-American, in 1977 and 1978.

Dick Kemp

A standout running back at High Point High who went on to shine at Lenoir- Rhyne in the late 1950s and early '60s.

He was the leading rusher for Lenoir-Rhyne two of the four years he was there and led his team to an NAIA title in 1962. He had an offer to sign with the Chicago Bears upon graduation, but signed with Ottawa of the Canadian Football League because he didn't think he was big enough to play in the NFL.

As a high school coach, he won state championships at Elizabeth City and Ragsdale. He was also the football coach at High Point Central, Southwest Guilford and Glenn.

Danny Manning

Manning was a member of the 1983 Page High team that went 26-0 and won the 4-A state title. He's considered one of the greatest players ever to play at the University of Kansas and led the Jayhawks to the 1988 NCAA title.

He was selected with the first overall pick by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 1988 NBA draft and spent more than a decade in the league. He is an assistant coach at Kansas and helped guide the Jayhawks to this year's national title.

Bodie Mcdowell

A native of Greenwood, S.C., McDowell was outdoors editor of the Greensboro News & Record for nearly three decades, retiring in 1992. During his tenure, he was widely acclaimed as one of the nation's leading outdoors writers. He received one-of-a-kind recognition in 1988 when the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission named a fish in his honor. A hybrid bass, a cross between the white and the striped bass, was designated the Bodie Bass.

Ken Rush

During an era from 1955 through the early 1970s, High Point's Rush won more than 400 auto races and several points championships at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, the old Greensboro Fairgrounds track and at the speedway in Bristol, Tenn.

His list of victories includes the first races ever held at Talladega, Michigan and Dover. From 1957 to 1990, he operated a garage on Eastchester Drive, not far from where he and wife Patsy live.

Floyd Lemuel (Pep) Young

Young was born in 1907 in Jamestown and had a distinguished 10-year career in the major leagues -- eight of them with the Pittsburgh Pirates -- that would have lasted longer except for an injury.

Young excelled in an area that is not always recognized as readily as the world of power hitters and fast-ball pitchers. He was a fielding gem who, for at least one or two seasons in the late 1930s, was regarded as perhaps the best second baseman in the majors.

Honus Wagner found Young's fielding so remarkable that he said Pep was the only "super-human second-sacker" he had ever seen.

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