01/06/2026
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), 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), 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), 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), 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, 8 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 (Sanford, Fayetteville), 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), 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), 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.
