GREENSBORO - Former Campbell men's basketball great Fred Whitfield
is one of thirteen new members of 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 (June 4) 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.
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-independent 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.
Whitfield was inducted into the Campbell Sports Hall of Fame on
October 7, 1995. A member of Campbell's first NCAA Division I men's
basketball team, the Greensboro native still ranks among the
all-time career scoring leaders for Fighting Camel basketball with
an average of 12.6 points per game.
Following graduation, he served as assistant basketball coach for
two seasons while completing his M.B.A. Whitfield, who earned his
J.D. from North Carolina Central University, also has worked as a
sports attorney.