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09/15/2026

An outstanding football player at Dudley High School, Jeff Davis went on to star as a linebacker at Clemson, where he was named All-American and was the captain of the 1981 national championship team. In his four years at Clemson from 1978 to 1981, he started 35 of 40 games recording 469 tackles, four sacks, and four interceptions. Davis was ACC Player of the Year in 1981. A 5th round selection in the draft, Davis played six seasons with the Tampa Bay Bucs in the NFL. Davis led the Bucs in tackles for three years. Davis was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2007.
Clemson Football
Dudley Alumni Association, Inc.

09/13/2026

An excellent basketball and baseball player at High Point College (now High Point University), Class of 2015 inductee Bob Davidson made his coaching mark in the sports of track and field and cross country. After coaching baseball for seven seasons at Ragsdale High, he moved to High Point College. Davidson began coaching men’s track and field at High Point in 1962. Through the years, the Panthers added men’s cross country, women’s cross country and women’s track and field, and Davidson coached them all until he retired in 2001 after 39 years. His teams won 32 total men’s and women’s conference championships (14 in track and field, 18 in cross country) and he earned 21 different coach of the year awards.

09/11/2026

Class of 2013 inductee Gayle Currie had a distinguished and diverse career at Guilford College. Currie coached volleyball from 1974-93, women’s tennis from 1976-93, women’s basketball from 1974-79, and served as Athletics Director from 1992-96. Currie won several NAIA District Coach of the Year honors in volleyball and tennis, and in 1981 was the NAIA Women’s Tennis Coach of the Year. Currie’s volleyball teams had a cumulative record of 400-218. The Quakers qualified for the NAIA National Tennis Championships 11 consecutive years finishing as co-champions in 1981 and runner-up in 1982. Currie was inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame in 1991 and was the first woman elected to the Guilford College Athletics Hall of Fame in 1984.

09/10/2026

Class of 2009 inductee Dick Culler was born in High Point and starred at shortstop for the Philadelphia Athletics (1936), Chicago White Sox (1943), Boston Braves (1944-47), Chicago Cubs (1948) and New York Giants (1949). Culler attended High Point College where he was a three-sport letter winner playing baseball, basketball, and soccer. On the soccer field, Culler served as player/coach for three of his four years. Culler was captain of the basketball team and his #9 jersey was the first ever retired at the school. As a baseball player, Culler was the first freshman to be named to the all-conference roster. At graduation, Culler was named the most outstanding athlete in High Point College’s history. During his eight seasons in the professional leagues, Culler played in 472 games and totaled 1,527 at bats, 195 runs, 372 hits, 39 doubles, 6 triples, 2 home runs, 99 RBI, 19 stolen bases, 166 walks with a .244 batting average, a .320 on-base percentage and a .281 slugging percentage. Following retirement from baseball, Culler devoted most of his time to officiating high school, ACC, and Southern Conference basketball games.

09/08/2026

A highly accomplished soccer player at Northwest Guilford High School, 2021 inductee Megan Jeidy Crotts was named North Carolina Player of the Year in addition to being a McDonald’s All-American and Parade magazine All-American as a senior in 1994. She was twice named Conference and Regional Player of the Year and selected to play in the East-West All-Star game. Crotts played in one season with the Raleigh Spartans soccer club, winning the 1995 national championship as she was named both MVP of the Final Four and won the Fair Play Sportsmanship Award. The Spartans team was inducted into the NC Soccer Hall of Honor in 2013. Crotts played four seasons at North Carolina State and was named All-ACC, All-South Region, and to the ACC All-Tournmanet team in 1995. After college, Crotts played from 1998-2000 with the Raleigh Wings of the United Soccer Leaguer W-League as they won two league titles and was runner-up during the third season. After the 1999 World Cup, the Women’s United Soccer League was formed as the first professional soccer league for women. Crotts was a member of the Bay Area (California) Cyber Rays in 2001 that won the WUSA inaugural Founders Cup championship.
NC State University

09/06/2026

A pioneer in women’s high school sports, Class of 2022 inductee Andrea Cozart began coaching at High Point Central before there were varsity sports for women. A native of Bailey, NC, where she played on a basketball team that won 100 consecutive games, Cozart graduated from East Carolina University in 1965. She then went on to a stellar 30-year coaching career from 1967-1997. While primarily a woman’s tennis and men and women’s swimming coach, she also coached women’s basketball on an “interim” basis from 1983-1986, posting a 67-3 record and a state runner-up finish in 1985, and was named conference Coach of the Year three times. Cozart played in an East-West All-Star basketball game in 1961, then coached the West team in the 1986 NCHSCA All-Star game. As a tennis coach, her teams won 15 conference championships, an NCHSAA state title in 1976, and produced five individual state champions. Her greatest accomplishments came in the sport of swimming. During nine years as a head coach from 1987-1995, her women’s teams posted a 92-5 dual meet record with 45 consecutive wins. Her men’s teams were 91-6 with 47 consecutive dual meet wins. Cozart coached 14 individual NCHSAA state champions and three teams were state runners-up. During her coaching career, her teams never had a losing record. Cozart was inducted into the NCHSAA HOF in 2003 and the High Point Central inaugural HOF Class of 2013.
East Carolina University

09/05/2026

2010 Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame inductee Don Corbett coached men’s basketball at North Carolina A&T State for 14 seasons, from 1979-80 to 1992-93, and compiled a record of 254-145. Corbett is second on the list of all-time wins at A&T, trailing only Cal Irvin. Corbett’s Aggies won 20 or more games six times, peaking at 26-3 in 1987-88. His teams won seven straight Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament championships, from 1982-88. The Aggies finished first in the regular season seven times and five times won both the regular season and tournament titles. North Carolina A&T, under the direction of Coach Corbett, shares the NCAA record with the University of Kentucky for consecutive conference tournament championships at seven.

09/04/2026

Class of 2011 Guilford County Sports Fall of Fame inductee Joey Cheek, a Dudley High School graduate, burst onto the speed skating scene in 2002, winning an Olympic bronze medal in the 1,000 meters at the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. Cheek took his performance to a higher level at the 2006 Winter Games in Turin, Italy where he won the silver medal in the 1,000 and won the gold medal in the 500. Cheek’s Olympic peers chose him to carry the U.S. flag in the closing ceremonies and he was awarded the US Olympic Committee Spirit Award. Cheek is the winner of 20 international World Cup and World Championship medals. Cheek is the co-founder and president of Team Darfur, an international coalition of athletes committed to raising awareness of the crisis in Darfur, Sudan and for those efforts received the Inaugural Heisman Trophy Humanitarian Award and was named to the Time 100 Most Influential People in 2006. A 2011 graduate of Princeton University, Cheek is the founder of www.dailyhouse.com.

09/03/2026

The basketball court at High Point Central is named in Kenny Carter’s honor following a 24-year coaching career in which his girls teams compiled an overall record of 573-125 and won five NCHSAA state titles (1993, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002). The Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2023 inductee's resume also includes 14 conference championships, 15 tournament championships and 10 undefeated seasons in conference play. He was selected as the North Carolina Associated Press Coach of the Year in 1997 and 2002 and the Nike WBCA District 3 Coach of the Year in 2010. Carter was also a four-year starting infielder at High Point College, where he earned All-Carolinas Conference honors twice and was a NAIA second-team All-America in 1982. The team finished second in the country, and he was named to the all-tournament team at the 1979 NAIA National Championships.

09/01/2026

A native of Chapel Hill, Thomas Bynum made his mark in Guilford County as a longtime athletics trainer at North Carolina A&T. He earned an undergraduate degree and master’s degree in sports medicine from A&T, where he was a four-year starter in basketball, Bynum served in the U.S. Army before returning to Greensboro in the mid-1960s. He began his career at A&T as the school's athletics trainer in 1968, serving until his retirement in 2000. During his career, “Mr. B's” reputation spread far and wide. He served as an athletics trainer in the Pan-African Games in 1971 as well as the U.S. Olympic Committee. In 1973 he was selected by the Amateur Athletic Union to be a trainer in Germany, Africa and Russia. In 1973 he was the trainer for the USA National Junior Track and Field team. Two years later, he was named a Sports’ Festival trainer and worked in Venezuela, Africa, France, China, Poland and Germany. He was the head AAU trainer in 1976 in Russia, West Germany and Canada. Bynum was one of 24 athletics trainers selected to work the Summer Olympic Games in 1984 and was named to the Olympic Training Advisory Board. He was chosen to be a trainer for the Summer Olympics in 1996 in Atlanta. Bynum was inducted into the A&T Hall of Fame in 2000. The Sports Medicine Room in the Corbett Sports Center is named and dedicated in his honor. Thomas Bynum passed away in 2020.

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