Sanderson High School and the Sanderson Athletic Club will induct the second class of the Sanderson Athletics Hall of Fame in festivities to be held in September 2012.  The class includes nine individual athletes, one family, a set of three brothers, and one team.

Buffaloe Lanes North fixture Nancy Strickland is the Capital Area U.S. Bowling Congress Association Hall of Fame’s 37th inductee.

Strickland, 61, of Raleigh, has been a bowler for 41 years at various area facilities, and she has served the area bowling community by being active in organizations such as the Capital Area USBC Association, the Raleigh Women’s Bowling Association and the N.C. Women’s Bowling Association.

Larry Lindsey, one of the North Carolina’s most successful high school basketball coaches, has been inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame today as part of its 2011 class. Lindsey is one of seven members that will be inducted on May 12 at main ballroom of the North Raleigh Hilton Hotel.

Lindsey captured eight NCHSAA state championships in three different classifications, including two at Youngsville High (1969 and '70) and six at Wake Forest-Rolesville (1971, '72, '73, '77, '78, and '79). In 28 seasons he had a winning percentage of almost .800. He is a member of the NCHSAA Hall of Fame

Lindsey is also a member of the Pembroke University Sports Hall of Fame as a basketball player.

Garner High has named the inaugural five members of its Hall of Fame. 

The group will be introduced at the Trojans game against Harnett Central on Nov. 5 and will be inducted next spring.

The group includes:

Anthony Barbour, a football running back who led Garner to the 1987 state 4-A title and started at N.C. State. Barbour has been the head football coach at Southern Durham, Middle Creek and Smithfield-Selma and is currently an assistant coach at Clayton High.

Barbara Kelly, a girls basketball player and later a coach and athletics administrator at the University of Virginia who was instrumental in starting the Atlantic Coast Conference women’s basketball tournament.

Hal Stewart, who built a football dynasty at Garner including the state title in 1987. Stewart is among the few coaches who has won state 4-A championships at two different schools, having led Richmond County to a state title before going to Garner.

Patrick Watkins, a baseball player who played in the Major Leagues for the Cincinatti Reds and Colorado Rockies. He was a collegiate star at East Carolina where he led the NCAA in home runs.

Donald Williams, a boys basketball player who was the MVP of the Final Four when University of North Carolina won the national title in 1993.
 

Harvey Brooks of Trenton and Princeton, Tunney Brooks of Lumberton, Tom Brown of Maiden, Bob Catapano of Raleigh, the late Joe Hunt of Hendersonville, Carolyn Rogers of Hertford, and Que Tucker of Chapel Hill have been named to the N.C. High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame.

Garner High will start an athletics hall of fame.

Shannonhouse led Imps to the NCHSAA 4-A women's basketball finals.

The Chapel Hill High/ Lincoln High Hall of Fame will induct seven people during its annual banquet on Saturday.

Northern will honor Jim Armstrong, Carla McLaughlin Boynton, Sid Ray, Bernice Rigsbee, Mike Salzano, and Zack Veasey.

Writing about the first person to be inducted into the Citadel basketball Hall of Fame in 100-plus years of hoops is one thing.

But getting to sit down and pick his mind over an early lunch is another thing all together.

Many people know who Art Musselman is — they see a tall, elderly fellow around Wendell Parks and Recreation and hear people refer to him as "Mr. Art." But not too many people are aware, maybe excluding those who read his article in Eastern Wake News earlier this year, of his life chocked full of accomplishments.

I had no idea just how deep his resume' would be, but I found out his basketball resume' is longer than my work resume', and I'm not kidding around. So talk about an honor when the man asks me to join him for brunch last Wednesday.

The conversation went about how one would expect it to go between a 70-year-old man who's spent 3/4 of his life in the basketball/sports realm and a 25-year-old who's spent about 1/5 of his life trying to write about such people. He did most the talking, and my ears couldn't listen fast enough.

He asked me about my college years — where I went and what I went for. He was pleased when I told him the University of Tennessee - Knoxville. Naturally, he had a story for me.

Musselman took his first-ever coaching job at Presbyterian College when he was pretty much my age (it's hard to believe, I know). And he said it was in the mid-late '60s when he made a phone call and took a trip to Knoxville to get a young man's idea of how Ray Mears (whose career record of 399-135 (.747) still ranks in the top 15 all-time for NCAA coaches with a minimum of 10 seasons) was running his program. He described an awe he felt in what seemed like a huge locker room at Thompson Boling Arena that paralleled the feeling that crossed me in hearing him say these things as if they'd happened yesterday.

Everything Musselman had to say was spoken with the most genuine interest and in the most selfless manner. He asked me what my favorite sport is, and I told him it is golf, hands-down. He told me how he has always been intrigued by the sport, but couldn't get off the tee box to save his life. He said his wife, on the other hand, hits it straight down the middle, and how it is flat out "disgusting," as he put it.

We could've talked straight through the afternoon, but I would've missed a ball game and someone else would've missed valuable time spent in his presence.

If you know "Mr. Art," go ask him about his role on the Citadel team, or his coaching positions at Presbyterian or at N.C. State (where he assisted for the 1974 National Championship, like I need to add more to his list of outrageous accomplishments). If you don't know him, hope to run into him one day. As said in the news story on his induction — the man is a world of knowledge, on sports and on life, and you should feel just plain lucky if he shares that with you.