SEVENTH CLASS TO BE INDUCTED INTO THE NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL TRACK & FIELD AND CROSS COUNTRY HALL OF FAME

12 headline seventh Hall of Fame class

WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA- The seventh class of the North Carolina High School

Track & Field and Cross Country Hall of Fame will honor athletes, coaches and officials who have

significantly impacted the sports on the high school level and beyond.

Elected to the seventh class: Floyd “Chunk” Simmons (Central High, Charlotte/University of North

Carolina), a 2-time Olympic decathlon bronze medalist (1948 and 1952) and one of only two North

Carolinians to ever win two Olympic track and field medals; Ryan Hill (Hickory/N.C. State

University), 2016 World Championships silver medalist, 8-time U.S. Championship medalist, 10-time

NCAA All-American at N.C. State, and 7-time NCHSAA state champion; Brant Armentrout (Mt.

Tabor, Winston-Salem/Wake Forest University), 2-time ACC Champion and 6-time All-ACC, 1991

U.S. Junior team at Wake Forest, national high school indoor mile champion (1989), Foot Locker All-

American (1989) and 5-time NCHSAA state champion; Isaiah Moore (Cummings,

Burlington/University of South Carolina), 2013 World Under-18 Championships bronze medalist and

U.S. Championships gold medalist, 2014 & 2015 U.S. Junior Championships bronze medalist, 2014

New Balance Indoor and Outdoor national champion, 2014 Track & Field News All-American, 6-

time NCHSAA state meet MVP, 13-time state champion, and 3-time NCAA All-American at South

Carolina; Karjuan Williams (New Bern), 2006 Track & Field News Indoor Track Boys’ National

High School Athlete of the Year; 2-time Track & Field News All-American; 4-time national high

school champion, 2006 NCHSAA all-class state meet MVP; 5-time state champion; New Bern relays

(Anthony Hendrix, Andrew Hendrix, Fuquawn Greene, Miles Sparks, Daishawn Styron),

combined earned 6 Track & Field News All-American relay honors, set 3 all-time U.S. high school

relay records, 9 all-time North Carolina records, 7 national meet records, 13 national titles, 2 national

runner-ups, 5 all-class state meet records, 13 state titles (including 9 relay titles), 13 performances

ranked No. 1 in the country and 33 more ranked in the top-10 nationally; Demetria Washington

(Terry Sanford, Fayetteville/University of South Carolina), 2003 World Championships gold

medalist, 2003 U.S. Championships silver medalist, 6-time NCAA champion and 21-time NCAA

All-American, 2-time Track & Field News All-American (1997, 1998), 1998 N.C. Gatorade Track &

Field Girls’ Athlete of the Year, 1998 U.S. Junior bronze medalist and World Junior bronze medalist,

7-time NCHSAA state champion, 1998 NCHSAA all-class indoor state meet MVP, Sarah (Vance)

Goodman (TC Roberson, Asheville/Villanova University), a 3-time high school All-American, 1996

Foot Locker South winner; 2-time NCHSAA 3A state meet MVP (1997, 1998), 13-time NCHSAA

state champion, 2-time NCAA All-American who helped Villanova win the 1998 NCAA Cross

Country title; Morgan Smalls (Panther Creek, Cary/Southern Cal, LSU, Illinois), 3-time Track &

Field News All-American, 2019 U.S. Pan Am team, 4-time NCHSAA 4A state meet MVP, 13-time

state champion, 2018 U.S. Junior bronze medalist, 2-time high school high jump champion, and 13-

time NCAA All-American.

Also inducted were coaches/officials, Alton Tyre (Bunn/Hoggard/Southern Nash/SE Guilford), who

coached for five decades (1978-2018) and was inducted into the Southern Nash Hall of Fame in 2024,

was the 2017 NSAF National Track & Field Coach of the Year, won 22 conference coach of the year

honors, 24 conference championships, nine Guilford County titles, five regional championships and

three state titles at Southern Nash (1998, 1999) and Southeast Guilford (2012); Randy McDonough

(Watauga), a longtime coach and certified official, who has led Watauga’s cross country and track and

field programs for 34 years, winning a staggering 101 conference championships (cross country and

track, boys and girls), 28 West Regional titles, 8 state championships and 8 state runner-ups, as well

as serving 33 years as a meet director for invitationals, regional and conference championships, and

serving 34 years as a USATF/TAC official for NCAA, NAIA and USATF championships, college

conference championships and NCHSAA state championships; Pam Bolton (Hendersonville),

another longtime decorated official and coach, who served as the first female president of the North

Carolina Track and Cross Country Coaches Association and spent 24 years as an official with various

governing bodies (USATF, NFHS, NCHSAA), and 26 years coaching track and cross country at

Hendersonville, earning 16 coach of the year honors, coaching 2 NCHSAA girls’ Athletes of the Year

(all sports considered), as well as winning 14 outdoor track conference championships, nine West

Regional titles (and five runner-ups), and helping six teams and 61 individuals win state titles.

A statewide board of 22 track and field and cross country current and former coaches, officials and

media representatives, who cover the sport extensively, nominated and elected the class.

The induction ceremony will be Jan. 31, 2026, in Winston-Salem during the Mondo Elite High School

Invitational at the JDL Fast Track. Each elected class has been honored at the meet, which is the

premier indoor meet in North Carolina each season.

“High school track and field has existed in North Carolina for more than 100 years, with the first

outdoor state championship in 1913, the first indoor track meet in 1922, and the first high school cross

country meet in 1926, and North Carolina has a strong history of national success, dating to the 1930s

when High Point High competed at cross country nationals in New Jersey. It is our goal to honor

those who helped make this sport so great in our state, and these first seven classes are representative

of the talent that has come through North Carolina, but we are only scratching the surface on who we

have elected in the first seven classes. We have incredible candidates waiting in the wings because of

the depth of accomplishments by so many before the Hall of Fame was even founded.” Brett

Honeycutt, N.C. High School Track & Field and Cross Country Hall of Fame Founder.