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Former Camel great Fred Whitfield to be inducted into Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame

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.

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