NCHSAA Announces Eight to Join the Hall of Fame in Class of 2020
https://www.nchsaa.org/news/2019-10-7/nchsaa-announces-eight-join-hall-fame-class-2020OCT 7, 2019
CHAPEL HILL, NC – The North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) is pleased to announce the eight-member group that will join the NCHSAA Hall of Fame in the Class of 2020. This year’s class includes individuals who made tremendous impacts on their communities through coaching and athletic administration. This year’s class is the 34th to join the Hall of Fame which is dedicated to honoring those who “have done the most for high school athletics in North Carolina” throughout their careers.
The Class of 2020 is: Donald Clark from Snow Hill, Barbara Foxx from Sanford, Henry Jones from Cherryville, Norvell Lee from Goldsboro, Fred McDaniel from Wade, Ron Parson from Reidsville, David Rothwell from Statesville and Milt Sherman from Greenville.
The class will be formally introduced at an Introduction and Luncheon on Wednesday, October 9, 2019, at the NCHSAA offices in Chapel Hill at 11:00 a.m. The Introduction Luncheon is not open to the public. The NCHSAA will stream the event live on the Association’s Facebook page. The Formal Induction Ceremony and Banquet for the Class of 2020 will be held on Saturday, April 18, 2020, at the Embassy Suites in Cary. The Banquet and Ceremony are open to the public. Tickets to the event are $50 per person and will go on sale in the coming weeks.
David RothwellStatesville, NC
An outstanding wrestling coach and athletic administrator, David Rothwell served the NCHSAA and its student-athletes with distinction from 1972 until his retirement in 2012. Rothwell began his career in education as a teacher and coach at three different NCHSAA Schools from 1972 until 1992. He guided his Statesville team to the 1992 3A Wrestling State Championship. During that span, he served at Albemarle, Asheboro and Statesville High Schools before taking a position as Assistant Principal and Athletic Director at Statesville High School, a position he held from 1992 until 1997. After a four-year stint as Principal at East Iredell Elementary School, he took a position as the Athletic Director for Iredell-Statesville Schools in 2001, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2012.
Rothwell has received many awards from various organizations. He was the Mat News 3A Coach of the Year in 1992. In 1994 and again in 2007 he received the Proclamation of Achievement Award from the NCHSAA. The North Carolina Athletic Directors Association dubbed him the Region 7 Athletic Director of the Year in 2002 and selected him for induction in their Hall of Fame in 2014. He garnered the State Award of Merit from the NIAAA in 2008. In 2010, Rothwell was named the Region 7 recipient of the Charlie Adams Distinguished Service Award, selected for the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, and inducted into the Iredell County Sports Hall of Fame in 2019.
Milt ShermanGreenville, NC
An outstanding coach for 30 years in the Greenville area, Milt Sherman built D.H. Conley’s wrestling program into a powerful force in North Carolina wrestling. His team compiled a dual record of 470-114-5 during his tenure, making him 2nd all-time in North Carolina coaching wins at retirement. Sherman had 43 All-State wrestlers including 14 state champions. He coached 5 high school All-Americans including James Johnson who went on to win 3 national championships and coach the 2012 Olympic team. His team won the 3A State Championship in 1995 and he was named the 3A Coach of the Year that season. His teams finished as state runner-up in 1977, 1989, and 1990. They claimed 10 Regional Championships and 16 Conference titles.
Sherman was on the NCHSAA Wrestling Advisory Committee from 1985-89, was Vice-Chairman for the North Carolina Coaches Association Wrestling Committee from 1989-98 and has served on the Board of Directors for the National Wrestling Hall of Fame’s North Carolina chapter since 2006. His Master’s thesis on Traditional Wrestling Styles was published by the University of Oregon Publications. He has authored more than two dozen articles for Coach and other athletic magazines and wrote the young adult novel Wrestling Spoken Here. He received the 25 Year Service Award from the National Wrestling Coaches Association in 2000, was inducted into the East Carolina University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2002, the National Wrestling HOF – NC chapter in 2005, and the Arlington (VA) Sports HOF in 2019.