Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame

05/02/2026

Greensboro’s Carlton Harris Jr. (1958–1983) grew up playing tennis and was a highly ranked junior player from a young age through high school at Greensboro Day School. He also was a member of a state championship Bengal Tigers boys basketball team.

For four collegiate seasons he was a standout Notre Dame tennis player, who served as team captain, played No. 1 singles/doubles, and lead the Irish to a 20-3 record in his senior year (1980) in South Bend. At Notre Dame’s annual athletics awards banquet, the men’s tennis team’s player with the best backhand is presented the Carlton Harris, Jr. Award.

Harris was a graduate of Greensboro Day School’s Class of 1976, which celebrated its 50th Anniversary recently with a gathering of Carlton’s classmates. After five decades his name is still well known to GDS students. The main athletic field, completed in 1980, has been named in his honor. The annual Carlton Harris, Jr. '76 Award was endowed in memory of him, and this award is presented annually to GDS tennis players (boys' and girls' teams) who demonstrate outstanding leadership, sportsmanship, and dedication to their sport.

After graduating from Notre Dame, he later became a tennis teaching professional and World Team Tennis teammate of Hall Of Fame legden, Billie Jean King. In 1983, Harris was living in Chicago teaching tennis as a club professional when he became ill. He was diagnosed with leukemia and soon thereafter died at the age of 25. The Carlton Harris Pro of the Year award is presented annually in North Carolina in his memory.

Carlton was posthumously Inducted into the Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame in 2016.

04/28/2026

We offer a moment of silence and a standing "O" for 2025 Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame inductee, Robert G. "Bob" Kennerly, Sr., who reportedly passed away on April 24th.

Bob Kennerly has left a major imprint on the city of Greensboro in multiple areas. After playing basketball and golf at Greensboro (Grimsley) High School, he matriculated to Virginia Tech where he played two years of basketball. He was extensively involved in coaching team travel basketball for boys (age 11-12), winning four national championships. He also coached boys and girls at the junior high and high school levels. But perhaps the greatest impact that Kennerly made on the area was with Sutton-Kennerly & Associates, a structural engineering firm he founded in partnership with John Sutton in 1958. When the Greensboro Coliseum underwent a major expansion in 1969, Kennerly played a huge role in its renovation and design. Over the next two decades, Kennerly was intimately involved in the planning and design of other facilities that form the complex surrounding the coliseum. His impact will truly be felt for generations to come.

04/27/2026

The Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame thanks and honors our sponsors! Today, we salute Sports Endeavors and Soccer.com for supporting the legends of Guilford County.
Family Owned and Operated Since 1984. In 1984, Sports Endeavors was born as a Durham Academy high-school class project in Durham, North Carolina. Today Spots Endeavors is the largest soccer, lacrosse and rugby retailer in the world. Now 431 Sports is proud to offer the same competitive advantages to teams on every field of play.
Founded by brothers Mike & Brendan Moylan in 1984, the Sports Endeavors portfolio of brands includes SOCCER.COM, WorldSoccerShop & 431 Sports.

04/13/2026

Congratulations to Megan Jeidy Crotts on her induction into the Northwest Guilford High School Hall of Fame. Megan is a member of the 2021 Class of the Guilford County Hall of Fame.

The four-year varsity starter was two-time all-conference, a region Player of the Year and the 1994 North Carolina Player of the Year. In 1994, she was a McDonald’s All-American, NCSAA All-American, Umbro Parade All-American and an East-West All-Star selection.

Megan played four years at NC State, where she was a 1995 All-ACC and All-ACC Tournament selection as well as all-south region in 1995 and 1997, before playing professionally for the Raleigh Wings, capturing two league titles and one league runner-up. She was a 2021 WUSA Founders Cup champion and is also a member of the North Carolina Soccer Hall of Fame.

03/24/2026

North Carolina's First Lady Anna Stein posts a memory of her grandfather, Wayne "Tige" Harris (back row on the right) with legendary High Point College coach and Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame member, Virgil Yow. Alongside Coach Yow are two other GCSHOF inductees, Dick Culler (lower right) and Bob Davidson (back row, third from right).

I am so proud of the High Point University Panthers for their historic win over Wisconsin this week in the first round of March Madness. (And excited because I picked them to win in my bracket!) My beloved grandfather, Wayne “Tige” Harris, played basketball at High Point College under legendary coach Virgil Yow. He was also a star baseball player who led the 1938 team with a .431 batting average. Go Purple Panthers and go Granddaddy Tige!

03/19/2026

The Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame is proud to honor our sponsors. Today, we thank the Greensboro Sports Foundation.

The Greensboro Sports Foundation is the local organizing committee for the major sports events contested at First Horizon Coliseum and throughout Greensboro such as those presented by the ACC, NCAA, U.S. Figure Skating, USA Swimming, USA Gymnastics and the Amateur Athletic Union among others. Greensboro’s sports tourism efforts create economic development that benefits not only Greensboro but also Central North Carolina.

03/10/2026

Congratulations to Woody Gibson, legendary coach and athletic director at High Point University and member and former board chairperson of the Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame, for earning North Carolina’s highest civilian honor, the Order of the Long Leaf Pine.

03/02/2026

Congratulations to Coach Freddy Johnson and his Greensboro Day School Bengals!

Greensboro Day captured the 2025-26 NCISAA 3A boys basketball state championship with a 62-34 win over #2 seeded Concord Academy. The Bengals’ most recent state title tied Wilmington New Hanover for the most boys basketball state championships with 14.

Johnson is a member of the Guilford County Sports Hall Of Fame, Class of 2011. It was the third state championship in four years for the Bengals, all coming against Concord Academy. GDS finished the season with a 36-2 record. Thirty-six wins also sets a new school single season record for wins.

Johnson has been the GDS head coach of the boys' basketball team since 1977, boasting a career record of 1,257–335. He is North Carolina's all-time winningest high school coach, with the 14 NCISAA state titles and over 30 consecutive 20-win seasons.

03/02/2026

The Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame honors our sponsors for their commitment to our community. Big thanks to Xtern Software.

Xtern Software offers a full range of services, from software architecture to product design & development, platform integration, software maintenance, secure cloud hosting, and beyond. We employ a dedicated group of senior developers with a combined 80+ years of experience. We also offer digital marketing services to support the investment you’ve made in your business’s digital footprint.

https://www.xternsoftware.com/
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Xtern Software was founded by Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame Board Member Keir Davis in 2002. Keir was first exposed to programming on a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. He has greatly expanded his programming abilities since then! The team has grown steadily over the years, and now employ a dedicated group of senior developers with a combined 80+ years of experience. Xtern also offers digital marketing services to support the investment clients have made in their businesses' digital footprints.

02/18/2026

CONGRATULATIONS to Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame Inductee Kim Furlough for being named Coach of the Quarter Century by the Greensboro News and Record.

Coach of the Quarter-Century
Kim Furlough, Northern Guilford
The 2024 Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame inductee was Northern’s first coach, accomplishing a 355-93 record, state championships in 2017 and 2018,three regional championships and eight regular season conference championships from 2007-2023.
The former Appalachian State player was a seven-time Conference Coach of the Year and a three-time NC Basketball Coaches Association District Coach of the Year. For her 2017 season, she was named NFHS South Sectional Coach of the Year, NCHSAA State Coach of the Year and AP Coach of the Year. The two-time cancer survivor became Greensboro’s first Ron Miller Distinguished Service Award recipient in 2023.