In researching those to be inducted into the East Wake hall of fame I've really gotten a good look back in the past.
To come up with stats for a team or an individual wasn't the easiest thing in the world. Looking through binders of years of newspapers (through roughly 27 sports pages in each half-year binder), it became evident to me relatively early it was going to be hard to find one single item I was looking for.
So I had to bite the bullet and look at every story on the Warriors' baseball team in 1998 and basketball team from the 1990-91 season, the championship contending year.
I normally get to follow a team through its year in-person, with camera at hand. But I have yet to cover a team that has later been honored by a school for a hall of fame, although some of the athletes I've seen go through Knightdale and East Wake may see that day before it's all said and done.
It's cool to go back and see where a program has come from. Not even coaches and athletic directors can remember every stat on a team or individual, so getting to take a good look at these people in their prime is like opening a time capsule.
I expected to find out these individuals being inducted at East Wake (The b-ball team, Jamey Shearin, Chris Bunn and Jackie Lee Ammons) truly made something special happen in their tenure at their respective schools, and the evidence certainly was right there in the binders.
The Hall of Fame dinner is set for next Saturday night at the high school. Although seating is probably limited at this point (it was a full house last year), contact the school if interested in attending.
