Guilford County Sports HOF Class of '10 Announced

GREENSBORO - Thirteen members have been named to the Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame with the Class of 2010 announced Friday.

The Guilford County HOF was created in 2005 and the new members bring the total to 64.

The 2010 class consists of former athletes, coaches, administrators and journalists. The coaches are Don Corbett (North Carolina A&T men's basketball), Stuart Maynard (Guilford baseball) and C.K. Siler (multiple sports at Sumner and Southern Guilford high schools).

The former players are Jeff Davis (Dudley High School and Clemson football) and Otis Foster Jr. (High Point Central High School and High Point College baseball).

The administrators also had active competitive careers. They are Donald Moore (Greensboro Grasshoppers), Sharron Frahm (women's tennis) and Fred Whitfield (Charlotte Bobcats).

The journalists are Irwin Smallwood (Greensboro News & Record) and Benny Phillips (High Point Enterprise).

Previous classes have included deceased inductees. This year, a Legends Class was created for such posthumous honors. It consists of Joseph Bryan, philanthropist and avid sports enthusiast, and youth baseball pioneers Bob Doss and Bill White.

All members of the class will be formally announced at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Greensboro Grasshoppers game. They will be inducted at a banquet on Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. at the Greensboro Coliseum. For ticket information, contact the Greensboro Sports Commission at (336) 378-4499 or www.greensborosports.org.

Brief biographies of the class of 2010 follow:

DON CORBETT
Don Corbett coached men's basketball at North Carolina A&T for 14 seasons, from 1979-80 to 1992-93, and compiled a record of 254-145. He is second on the list of all-time wins at A&T, trailing only Cal Irvin, another member of the Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame. 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. They finished first in the regular season seven times and five times won both the regular season and tournament titles.

JEFF DAVIS
An outstanding football player at Dudley High School, Jeff Davis went on to star as a linebacker at Clemson, where he was named All-America and was the captain of the 1981 national championship team. Davis played six seasons with the Tampa Bay Bucs in the NFL. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2007. Recognized nationally for his off-the-field work with young people, Davis is now Clemson's assistant athletic director for Player Relations and External Affairs.

OTIS FOSTER JR.
A High Point native, Otis Foster Jr. was a baseball standout at High Point Central High School and High Point College. He had an outstanding four-year career for the Panthers and still holds school records with 60 home runs, 166 RBI and an .837 slugging percentage. His .380 batting average ranks second. He was drafted by the Boston Red Sox and played in their organization five years. Foster continues to support youth baseball in the High Point area as a volunteer in many areas.

SHARRON FRAHM
Since she moved to Greensboro in the early 1980s, Sharron Frahm has immersed herself in the city's tennis community as a competitor and administrator. A former president of the Greensboro Tennis Association, she oversaw the development of many GTA programs and events, helped expand new divisions in the city tennis tournament and conducted Special Olympics clinics. As a competitor, she has won a dozen state age-group tennis titles. Frahm was inducted in the North Carolina Tennis Hall of Fame in 2007.

STUART MAYNARD
A 1943 graduate of Guilford College, Stuart Maynard returned to his alma mater in 1951. He served as football coach for five years and baseball coach for 33 years, retiring in 1984. His baseball teams compiled a record of 436-394-4 and went to the NAIA World Series in 1966 and 1976. He won two national coach of the year awards and was named NAIA District 26 coach of the year four times. Three of Maynard's players were named All-American and 11 played in the pros.

DONALD MOORE
Under the leadership of president and general manager Donald Moore, the Greensboro Grasshoppers have become one of the most successful franchises in minor-league baseball. His staff has won numerous awards since the team relocated to NewBridge Bank Park in 2005. Moore has received several civic awards, including Father of the Year and Unsung Community Hero Award. In 2006, two days after Eastern Guilford High School was destroyed by fire, the Grasshoppers donated $100,000 to the school. Moore is a graduate of Page High School, where he played three sports, and NC State.

BENNY PHILLIPS
Benny Phillips is best-known for his work in covering NASCAR, winning a host of awards, including National Motorsports Press Association Writer of the Year seven times. He wrote a monthly racing magazine column for 27 years and was an on-camera commentator for 12 years. Phillips, a graduate of High Point College, worked 48 years for the High Point Enterprise, including 32 as sports editor. He was written four books, including the Dale Earnhardt biography "Determined."

C.K. SILER
In his 36-year career as coach and athletics director at Sumner and Southern Guilford high schools, C.K. Siler left an indelible impression. He coached football, baseball and men's and women's basketball, and during one season his teams won conference championships in all four sports. During 27 years as the head football coach, he compiled a record of 179-99-10. The football field at Southern is named in his honor, and he still attends all home games.

IRWIN SMALLWOOD
Irwin Smallwood spent four decades in the newspaper business at the Greensboro News & Record and Greensboro Daily News, working in the sports department and on the news side. His passion was golf writing, from junior tournaments to city and state amateur events to the PGA, including the Greensboro tournament, the Masters and the U.S. Open. He won numerous awards and is a member of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame.

FRED WHITFIELD
The career of Fred Whitfield has included stints as a player, coach, agent, basketball operations administrator and sports marketer. A Greensboro native and graduate of Southeast Guilford High School, Whitfield played basketball at Campbell and made all-conference as a senior. A lawyer by profession, Whitfield established the Achievements Unlimited basketball camp in Greensboro in 1985. He is now president and chief operations officer of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats.

LEGENDS CLASS

JOSEPH BRYAN
Joe Bryan, a well-known Greensboro businessman and philanthropist, was an avid sports enthusiast and particularly skilled as a fisherman and shooter. He supported a wide range of sporting venues in Greensboro. Bryan guaranteed the purse for the first Greater Greensboro Open in 1938 and in 1957 served as the tournament's Honorary Chairman. He contributed millions of dollars to support the Bryan Park Golf Complex and donated the land for the youth soccer complex at the facility. He died in 1995.

BOB DOSS
A dedicated supporter of youth baseball, Bob Doss was the founder and long-time leader of Palomino Youth Baseball, the level for players who had aged out of Colt League. One Greensboro team, the American Post Workers Union, won the Palomino World Series in 1994. Doss sponsored numerous baseball tournaments on the youth and high school levels and helped bring the Palomino World Series to Greensboro for a number of years. He died in 2008.

BILL WHITE
Another pioneer in youth baseball, Bill White began the city's Bronco League, Pony League and Colt League programs. He ran the Colt League program from 1965-1980 and coached its all-star teams for 16 years. In 1965, his Greensboro team won the Colt League World Series. White also coached basketball at the Elks Club and YMCA and was a high school football official. He was a driving force in the creation of Jaycee Park, which includes Stoner-White baseball field. White died in 1980.