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Eric
Kellison – Franklin Central
Eric
Kellison coached boys cross country at Franklin
Central from 1990 to 2011 and his teams finished in the Top Ten 9 times.
Under his tutelage, the Franklin Central boys team
won the 1998 IHSAA title and were runner-up in 1999 and 2000. During the four
seasons he also coached the girls, his squads finished in the Top Ten 3
times. Kellison coached 18 all-state runners,
including Aaron Fisher, 3-time state champion, and John Crist, state
runner-up. He also coached 2 winners of the IHSAA Mental Attitude Award.
As
an assistant track coach at Franklin Central for more than 20 years, Kellison coached 9 state qualifying 4 x 800-meter relay
teams, including the 2007 state champion and four others who made the podium.
He also coached 11 all-state runners in track, including Aaron Fisher and
runner-up Brian Dunn. Between 1997 and 2011, at least one of Kellison’s distance runners or relay teams scored in the
state meet.
Kellison has been
extremely active in the coaches association, serving as vice president,
president and as a staff member of the Midwest Meet of Champions for many years, He helped bring about the Hoosier State Relays, the
Flash Rock Cross Country Invitational and the Franklin Central Distance
Showcase.
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Carol
Tumey – Center Grove
Carol Tumey
coached track & field and cross country for 35 of her 40 years at Center
Grove High School, where she also served as assistant athletic director and
intramural director. Carol was
inducted into the Franklin College Hall of Fame in 2000, the Indiana
Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011, where she also serves on the Board of
Directors, and was an honored recipient of a Citation by the National
Federation of State High Schools for Meritorious Service and recipient of the
Indiana Athletic Administrator of the Year Award, both in 2001.
Carol’s Center Grove teams were consistent
top ten finishers at State Track Meets to accompany their many county, conference,
sectional and regional championships. She was honored by state track coaches
as Coach of the Girl’s All Star Team, and during her tenure as Girls track
and field coach at Center Grave, received the highest honor in her field by
being selected as National Girls Track Coach of the Year in 1980.
Carol’s contributions to the sport are
numerous and her devotion to the sport has included serving in the Indiana
High School Athletic Association’s sport advisory committee and Indiana
Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches council of the girls track
division, in addition to several National Interscholastic Associations.
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Liz
Honegger – Lafayette Jeff
Liz
Honegger carried the genetic qualities to become the athlete she is today.
Father Jack was a scholarship athlete at the University of Illinois and the
1961 Illinois High School state discus champion and Mother “Roberta” was a
collegiate athlete and Liz’s high school coach.
During
her high school athletic career, Liz lettered in basketball 4 years, soccer 2
years, and track and field 4 years, becoming all state during her junior and
senior years in both track and field and basketball. Liz became only one of
26 girl athletes to become a double winner in the IHSAA State Meet. Her shot
put of 46’4.25” is 9th all-time and 167’3” discus is 2nd
all-time and she ranks 35th on the all-time IHSAA State Meet
scoring list with 45 points.
Liz
continued her winning ways at Bowling Green University with a Mid America
Conference discus championship in 2004 and finished her basketball career as
one of Bowling Green University’s most decorated players, starting 127 of 128
games. She held the school records for 3 pointers and blocked shots and was
selected twice to the all-conference basketball team.
She
just wrapped up her seventh year as a volunteer of the Indiana All Star
basketball team and at present is the Director of Basketball Operations at
Indiana University.
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Erica
Moore – Sullivan
Erica Moore began her running career in
the Amateur Athletic Union youth program, winning 4 National AAU titles in
the 9-11 age group as a sprinter and long jumper.
Erica continued her running career at Sullivan High School, where she won 16
Western Indiana Conference Championships in the hurdles, sprints, and long
jump, and then won Indiana All-State honors 6 times, in 4 different events.
While attending Indiana State University,
on a track scholarship, Erica set 10 school records in the hurdles, 400
meters, 800 meters, pentathlon, heptathlon, and relays; and won 13 Missouri
Valley Conference championships, earning MVC Championship gold medals in
multiple events each of her 4 years at Indiana State University. Erica was
recognized as an All-American in Track & Field, and qualified for the
NCAA finals a total of 6 times, attaining 2-time All American honors in the
400 meter hurdles and 800 meter run.
As an outstanding multi-event athlete,
Erica excelled in the 400 meters, 600 meters, 800 meters, 100 meter hurdles,
long jump, high jump, shot put, javelin and 4 x 400 meter relay anchor
leg. Erica’s heptathlon and pentathlon
records still stand at Indiana State University.
Turning to a professional track career in
2011, Erica was the National Indoor Champion at 800 meters, and placed third
in the Istanbul, Turkey 2011 World Indoor Championship, with a time of
1:59.97.
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Ron Lee – Jeffersonville
Ron
Lee excelled in multiple events at Jeffersonville High School, participating in
the high hurdles, long jump, high jump, and 400 meter relay. Between 1979 and
1981, Lee won 5 medals in the IHSAA state track meets, including 4 in the
high jump where he averaged 6-feet-11inches. As a freshman in 1978, he
finished second with a leap of 6-feet-9 inches. He was second again in 1979
at 6-feet-11. He reached the 7-foot mark in 1980 but, after being tied with 3
other contenders for the championship; he missed 3 attempts at 7-foot-1/4 and
finished fourth. He finally won the coveted state title in 1981 with a 7-foot
leap.
Ron
consistently ran the high hurdles under 14 seconds and, as a sophomore in
1979, placed second in the state meet in the 120-yards high hurdles.
Lee’s
record jump of 7-feet-3 inches, set at the South Central Conference meet, was
the all-time state record for 18 years and remains second best on the
all-time list.
After
high school, Lee attended Pasadena Junior College and Cal State Bakersfield,
where he twice was a two event Division II national champion in the high jump
(with a personal best of 7-feet-6 inches) and the high hurdles (13.88).
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Ted
Sweatt – Terre Haute Wiley
The
1964 Indiana state high school champion in the high jump, Theodore “Ted” Sweatt of Terre Haute Wiley established the IHSAA state
meet and Indiana Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) high jump records that survived
for 3 years.
Using
the Western Roll at the 1964 state meet, Sweatt
cleared the bar at 6 feet 6.75 inches by several inches as 7,000 spectators
watched in awe. The performance culminated a year later when Sweatt won the County, Conference, Sectional, and
Regional titles and established an unofficial Indiana high school record for
the high jump. He established the new AAU high jump standard in 1966.
It
was the state championship for the Sweatt family. Ted
was the fifth of seven athletic boys in the family. Oldest brother Larry was
an outstanding sprinter and hurdler and led off Wiley’s 1957 state
championship 4 x 220-relay team.
A
gentleman in and out of the athletic arena, Sweatt
was also an outstanding basketball player and was offered college
scholarships in that sport. In 2000 he was selected one of the 50 greatest
Vigo County athletes of the 20th Century. Sweatt
was drafted into the Army in 1967 and served in Vietnam. On Thanksgiving Day,
1968, while on patrol, he and his scout dog Britta were ambushed and killed.
He was awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and Air Medal for his service.
He will be honored on the 50-year Golden Anniversary team at the 2014 Indiana
state track meet.
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Stan
Huntsman - Richmond/Crawfordsville
Born
March 20, 1932, Stan Huntsman grew up in an athletic environment. His father
was a coach at Earlham College in Richmond and Wabash College in
Crawfordsville. Stan excelled in football and track as a thrower and
decathlete. When he graduated from
Wabash College in 1954, he was offered a contract with the St Louis Cardinals
football team, which drafted him. He chose to work on a master’s degree at
Ohio University and was a graduate assistant in track. Upon earning a degree
he became the head track and field coach in Athens.
He
spent 14 years at Ohio University and then accepted a head coaching job at
the University of Tennessee. After 15 years there, he moved to the University
of Texas for his final 10 coaching years. During his 39 years as a college
head coach, Stan won 46 conference championships and 2 NCAA team titles. He
also coached 41 NCAA All-Americans and was the recipient of 6 national Coach
of the Year awards: 3 in outdoor track, 2 in indoor track and 1 in cross country.
Huntsman
also enjoyed a successful international coaching career, serving as head
coach of the USA team for the 1988 Olympics, 1983 World championship and the
1977 World Cup. He was also an assistant on both the 1976 and 1980 Olympic
track and field teams.
By
his induction here, Huntsman has completed a full house of Hall of Fame
inductions. He also has been honored by Wabash College, Ohio University, the
University of Tennessee, University of Texas, USATF, and Indiana Football.
Stan returned his diploma and Hall of Fame award to Ohio University to
protest its decision to drop the sport of track and field.
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Tom
Henderson, Sr. - Brazil High School
Tom
Henderson made his presence known in any sport he attempted: basketball, football
and above all track and field. In the IHSAA State Meet of 1923, Tom broke
Hall of Famer Larry Marks – Wabash record of 26.6 with a 24.3 and repeated in
1924 with another record of 24.1 and placed second in the 120 yard hurdles.
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Robert
Snoddy - Bloomington University
Bob Snoddy won
both the 120 yard Hurdles and the 220 yard Hurdles in the 1947 IHSAA State
Meet. His 120 Hurdles time of 14.7 was a record that lasted until 1952. Bob’s
14.3 run during the season was an all-time Indiana High School record and
stood until 1955. His time withstood the likes of Hall of Famers Oatess Archey, Marion and Ken Toye, Kokomo. His 22.5 in the 220 Hurdles was bettered by
only 4 including Willie Williams, Gary Roosevelt, who later broke Jesse
Owens’s World 100 meter record and Archie Adams, Fort Wayne North, who broke
the national record.
Bob attended the University of Georgia,
after the death of his father, during his freshman year, returned to
Bloomington to manage the family’s construction business. His competitive spirit continued, as he
established a nationally known Tennessee Walking horse stable.
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Jack
Corridan - Terre Haute Wiley
The
site of
"red-headed" Jack Corridan running daily
to and from his home on Crawford Street in Terre Haute, to St Patrick’s Elementary
School was common. When he entered Wiley High School, he traveled the same
route only more than a half mile farther. Corridan
put that experience to work in high school, finishing second in the mile run
in 1942 and winning the Indiana state meet in the event with a record time of
4:24.4 in 1943. That time bettered the
existing mark by nearly two full seconds.
Corridan’s record stood for 6 years.
Corridan earned a track
scholarship to Georgia Tech but his collegiate career was interrupted by service
in World War II. When he returned to school he ran the 400-meter hurdles in
addition to the distance events.
Corridan was so modest and
unassuming that he did not share his many athletic successes with his
children. Jack Corridan
died in Blairsville, Ga., age 80, in February of 2005.
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James
Lightbody - Muncie High School
Born
in 1882 in Pittsburgh, Pa., James Davies Lightbody
relocated with his family to Muncie as a youth and became an outstanding distance
runner. He placed second in the mile in the 1900 Indiana Interscholastic
Athletic Association track and field championships. He then matriculated to
DePaul University, where he earned the nickname, “Deerfoot”.
Lightbody’s dominance on the
cinders attracted the attention of Amos Alonzo Stagg, the legendary coach at
the University of Chicago, who tried to convince Lightbody
to transfer to the UC promising him that he would become an Olympic champion.
Reluctantly James transferred and Stagg kept his promise to make him an
Olympic champion. In 1904 at St. Louis, Lightbody
won gold in the 800-meter run, 1500-meter run and the 2590-meter, mismeasured, steeplechase and established new Olympic
standards in the 800 (1:56.0) and 1500 (4:05.4). He also won a silver medal
in the 4 x one mile relay. In 1905, he won the Western Conference (Big Ten)
title in the 800-meter run in 1:57.4 and the mile in 4:24.0.
At
Athens in 1906, James repeated as Olympic champion in the 1500-meter run a
strategically slow 4:12.0 and added a silver medal in the 800-meter run.
Lightbody was again
selected to represent the U.S. in the 1908 Olympics in London but, while
roughhousing, was pushed into a steam pipe and severely burned. He was unable
to match his earlier accomplishments. After the Olympics, he moved to
Germany, to work for the Associated Press and enrolled at the University of
Berlin, where he organized the first German athletic meets. The Berlin Sport
Club presented him with the Golden Eagle, the highest honor of its kind and
the first ever given to a foreigner. Lightbody resided in the Chicago area for much of his
life but died March 2, 1963 in Charleston, S.C.
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