Peoples, Shannonhouse, Maxwell to enter NCHSAA Hall

Enloe swimming coach Vickie Peoples and former Cary girls basketball coach Carolyn Shannonhouse are among seven people who have been named to the North
Carolina High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame.
Joining peoples in this year's class are Brad Faircloth of Greensboro, Gilbert Ferrell of WIlson, Bruce Hardin of Charlotte, Jim Maxwell of Durham, and Carolyn Shannonhouse of Cary.

The new inductees will be honored during special halftime
ceremonies at a football game at Kenan Stadium on Saturday, November 14,
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The NCHSAA Hall of Fame has been supported by a special
grant from GlaxoSmithKline.
"These individuals joining the Association Hall of Fame
this year have definitely had a tremendous impact on high school athletics
across North Carolina," says NCHSAA associate executive director Rick
Strunk, who coordinates the Hall for the Association. "Their records are
certainly impressive, but the character they exemplified and the lives they
touched are really representative of what the NCHSAA stands for. Their
selection maintains the high standards of excellence established by previous
inductees, and we are proud to honor these deserving individuals."

Brad Faircloth
Bradley Faircloth is one of the top officials that North
Carolina has ever produced.
A graduate of Greensboro Senior (now Grimsley) High School
and Duke University, for almost 20 years Faircloth worked as the coordinator
of football officials and chief financial officer for the Atlantic Coast
Conference. But he also enjoyed an outstanding career as a high school
official, working NCHSAA championship games in football, basketball and
baseball as well as the 1965 Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas. As a college
football official he worked seven bowl games, including the 1982 Cotton
Bowl.
He received a Distinguished Service Award from the NCHSAA
in 1995 and a year later was inducted into the National Football Foundation
and College Hall of Fame.
Faircloth has also been very involved with civic and
church activities in the Greensboro area, including once serving as general
chairman of the Greater Greensboro Open golf tournament.

Gilbert Ferrell
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 which his team won the state 4-A title in 1968
and a total of 215 games, and 13 years as athletic director there.
From 1978 through ’94, he was athletic director for the
Wilson County school system. He served as president of the North Carolina
Athletic Directors Association in 1978 and twice was named the state’s
Athletic Director of the Year.
Gilbert is a member of the Fike Senior High School Hall of
Fame and the NCADA Hall of Fame. He has also received numerous awards and
recognition from the NCHSAA.

Bruce Hardin
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 has been the head coach at Marvin Ridge High School, but he has
also served as Charlotte Providence (2001-03), Kannapolis A.L. Brown
(1989-2000). West Charlotte (1980-89) and Charlotte Hardin (1977-80), after
serving as an assistant coach at Charlotte Olympic for 10 years.
He also served as an assistant coach at The Citadel and at the
United States Military Academy, the latter from 2003-07).
Bruce served as head coach in both the North Carolina Coaches
Association East-West game and the Shrine Bowl. He also was recognized by
the NCHSAA with both coach of the year and athletic director of the year
awards at various times.

Jim Maxwell
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 coaches our state has ever had.
Maxwell was the volunteer head coach at Durham Jordan
throughout his 29-year coaching career, coaching both the men’s and women’s
teams. His squads earned five state championships and finished as state
runners-up an additional eight times. He directed a regional swimming and
diving championship for 19 years and the state meet for 15.
In addition, the veteran coach served as chairman of the
National Federation Swimming and Diving Rules Committee for four years after
three years as a committee member.

Vickie Peoples
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 swimming and diving coach
at Raleigh Enloe from 1982 to 2007 that propelled her to the Hall.
Her swimming teams won a total of 10 NCHSAA state
championships, with nine of those earned by her men’s teams. The Eagles also
captured 18 regional crowns and 27 conference titles under her tutelage. She
served as the director of the Eastern Regional in swimming and diving for 20
years. She was Teacher of the Year at Enloe in the 2004-05 academic year.
The City of Raleigh proclaimed May 1, 2007, as Enloe
Swimming and Diving Day in her honor.

Pete Stout
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 letterwinner in football and baseball during his playing
days, Stout had stints at Altamahaw, Western Alamance, Salisbury Boyden,
Burlington Williams and Morganton Freedom High Schools. In 28 years as a
head coach in high school he rolled up a record of 234-63-14 with two NCHSAA
state 3-A championships and a pair of runner-up finishes. At Burlington
Williams his teams compiled a then-state record of 43 consecutive wins.
Stout is a member of the Rowan County Sports Hall of Fame
and the Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame. He was born in Alamance County
and attended Haw River High School.

Carolyn Shannonhouse
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 to Wake County, where she coached at
Broughton for a year and then at Cary, serving as head coach in both women’s
tennis and women’s basketball, for eight years.
In her role with the NCHSAA, she supervises the women’s
sports and combination (those sports played by both men and women, such as
soccer or tennis) as well as the invitational cheerleading championships,
interpreting playing rules and eligibility. She has also held important
roles at the national level, serving on a couple of National Federation
sports rules committees.

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