CHARLOTTESVILLE—Eight individuals who have made outstanding contributions to high school

activity programs will be honored on October 17 with membership in the Virginia High School Hall of

Fame. Members of the Class of 2006, the 17th to be inducted, will bring total membership to 177.

Sponsored jointly by the Virginia High School League and the Virginia High School Coaches

Association, the hall is dedicated to preserving the rich heritage of outstanding achievements by

students and adults in sports and activities within Virginia's public high schools. 

The Class of 2006 includes two athletes, two coaches and four contributors. Athletes are eligible

for consideration 10 years after completion of their high school careers and are judged primarily for

their achievements in interscholastic sports. Coaches are eligible after 15 years of experience or upon

retirement and are judged on the merits of their achievements at the high school level. Contributors are

professionals who have rendered significant services in some other capacity such as administration,

academic activities, officiating, media, or sports medicine. 

The induction is set for the DoubleTree Hotel in Charlottesville on Tuesday, Oct. 17. The honorees

are as follows:

Ronde Barber was the 55m hurdles

district and region champion in indoor track during all four

years at Cave Spring High School,

the state champion for all but his first year, and the national

champion during his last. He still

holds the school record in five track events, but football is the sport

where Ronde is best remembered. In

this sport, he received All-District, All-Region, and All-State

honors as a defensive back, and he

still holds the school record with eleven interceptions in a single

season. In 1994 while at the

University of Virginia, he was the ACC Rookie of the Year. Currently, he

is a two-time All-Pro defensive back

for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 

Tiki Barber was the long jump

district and region champion in indoor track during his last three

years at Cave Spring High School.

During his junior year, he was the state champion for the same

event and also ranked third

nationally. As a senior, he was the district, region, and state champion in

both the long jump and triple jump

in outdoor track. He still holds six school records in track; however,

he also received All-District,

All-Region, and All-State honors as a defensive back on the Cave Spring

football team. While at the

University of Virginia, Tiki was the Most Valuable Player in the Peach Bowl.

Currently, he is a tailback for the

New York Giants. 

Bo Bowers has dedicated thirty-seven

years of his life to coaching football, basketball and

baseball. He has been a member of

the Virginia High School Coaches Association for thirty-one years.

Under his leadership, Wilson

Memorial High School baseball teams have claimed eleven district titles,

five regional titles, six trips to

the state tournament, and three state titles in 1977, 1980 and 1990. As a

varsity baseball coach, Bowers has a

64.8% winning percentage. Last year, to commemorate his

contributions, an Augusta County

Schools subcommittee unanimously approved a recommendation to

name the baseball facilities at

Wilson Memorial the Bo Bowers Baseball Field. He is retired from

coaching as of June 2000, but

continues to teach part-time. 

J.J. Updike has been a member of the

Virginia High School Coaches Association for thirty years

and has faithfully served the

Harrisonburg School System and community as an outstanding teacher;

cheerleading, basketball and track

and field coach; and athletic administrator. She has had a

tremendous impact in promoting track

and field not only in the Shenandoah Valley, but also throughout

the state since she initiated the

program at Harrisonburg High School in 1975. Under her leadership,

her teams have won five district,

three regional, and two state titles. She has also been instrumental in

instituting technology into the

track and field program resulting in innovations in reporting and administration.

She is widely considered to be a track and field authority and is regularly

involved with

the professional development and

administration of meets. 

Certified Athletic Trainer and

Registered Physical Therapist Joe Gieck established the master's

program in athletic training at the

University of Virginia. He also started a national undergraduate

program and the first doctoral

program in sports medicine. While at UVa, he served on the Drug Free

School and Student Health Committees

and under his leadership, UVa has provided a comprehensive

program for high school trainers. In

the 1960s and 70s, he conducted state-wide clinics for coaches

and athletic directors to emphasize

the need for athletic training at a time when only a limited number of

schools had qualified trainers. He

has received numerous local, state and national awards and has

also served on the VHSL Sports

Medicine Advisory Committee since 1989. 

Donna King's efforts have had a

profound impact on the lives of students as she has actively

engaged in and directed

instructional programs, activities and sports while serving as a teacher, coach

and school administrator for thirty

years in Fairfax County Public Schools, one of the nation's largest

school systems. She has also

provided voluntary service with local, state and national associations

such as the Virginia Interscholastic

Athletic Administrators Association (VIAAA), the National

Interscholastic Athletic

Administrators Association (NIAAA) and the National Federation of State High

School Associations (NFHS). She has

helped to develop local and state programs in coaching

education and in training new

athletic/activity administrators. She is a certified instructor for Coaching

Principles and the state component

of the VHSL Coaching Education Program. 

Nancy Phaup has been a teacher,

sponsor, coach, department chair and director of student

activities during her tenure with

Prince Edward County High School. During this time, she held

numerous memberships and leadership

positions with professional associations. While serving on the

VHSL Debate, Drama and Forensics

Advisory Committee, she was instrumental in getting Lincoln-

Douglas Debate added to the state

championship offering. As a debate coach, twenty-six of her

students won state championship

titles, and from 1978-1999, Prince Edward has held the district title.

She has garnered numerous local,

state and national recognition. She has Diamond Key Coach status

with the National Forensics League,

and in 1993, she also received the National Federation of State

High School Associations' (NFHS)

Section II Outstanding Speech Educator Award. 

Since 1989, Wilma Wirt has been an

active partner with the VHSL and has been instrumental in

the design and implementation of all

of its journalism programs. She developed a Scholastic

Journalism major which allowed high

school teachers to pursue a Master of Science in Mass

Communications through the VCU/VHSL

Partnership Course Program. She was also instrumental in

the planning of the High School

Editors' Workshop, a week-long summer program for rising high school

seniors. She further provided

journalism education opportunities to both Virginia's high school students

and advisers by hosting and

coordinating the VHSL Championship Journalism Workshop on the VCU

campus each year. Largely, these

efforts have been on a volunteer basis and all while maintaining her

position as Associate Professor at

VCU. 

Previous inductees in the Virginia

High School Hall of Fame include: 

1990: Athletes

- Keith Atherton, Edd Clark Jr., Carroll Dale, Doug Dickinson, Benton Dodd and

Ralph Sampson. Coaches - Jimmie

Bryan, Fred Cooper, Bobby Crantz, Howard Deel, Bill Littlepage,

Billy Martin, Alger Pugh, George

Quarles Jr., Mike Smith and Gracie VanDyke. Contributors - John

Caywood, Greever Crouse, Bob Frank,

Art Greene, Marshall Johnson, Bill Pace and John Youngblood. 

1991: Athletes

- Ollan Cassell, Moses Malone, Sidney Snell and Bobby Stokes. Coaches -

Vince Bradford, Julius Conn, Ralph

Cummins, Pat Dean, Chester Fritz, Harry Fry, Husky Hall, Bill Long

and Lefty Wilson. Contributors -

Richard Fletcher, Hubert Grim Jr., Ben Hurt, Norm Lord, Frank McCue

and Chuck Savedge. 

1992: Athletes

- Johnny Oates, Tommy Theodose and Ben Valley. Coaches - Gordon Bragg,

James (Suey) Eason, John Epperly,

Del Norwood, Charlie Nuttycombe, Al Rinaldi and Paul Sizemore.

Contributors - Harry Blevins, Eddie

Crane, George Gasser, Clarence Jones, Robert McLelland, Barbara

Reinwald and Gene Thompson. 

1993: Athlete

- Paul Gentry. Coaches - Ken Brown, Bob Hardage, Charlie Harkins, Jim

Holdren and Thad Madden.

Contributors - Vic Blue, Joel Grimm, Bob McCoy and Wendell Seldon. 

1994: Athletes

- Raymond Crouch and Frank Eastman. Coaches - Francis (Boodie) Albert,

Welton Bloxsom, Pete Brewbaker,

Louise Martin and Joe Robinson. Contributors - Carl Deane, Earl

Gillespie, Jimmy Jones, Charles

Karmosky and Bert Smith. 

1995: Athlete

- Jeff Baker. Coaches - Eddie Dean, Paul Hatcher and Claude Warren.

Contributors - Hud Clark, Don

Riviere and James (Smokey) Stover. 

1996: Athlete

- Jacob Adams. Coaches - Donald Glick, Joan Hudson, Norman Lineburg,

Ronald Skeen and Robert Williams.

Contributors: Nancy Haga and James Omps. 

1997: Athletes

- Eric Sievers and Tom Trice. Coaches - Ed Henry, Phil Robbins and Frank

Webster. Contributors - Robert

Carson, Bill Knowles, Bill Lee and Betty Morton. 

1998: Athletes

– Paula Girven and Barty Smith. Coaches – Glynn Carlock, Nancy Fowlkes,

Ann Lockett and Mack Shupe.

Contributors – Richard Fitz, Charles Kurtz and Bob Sandell. 

1999: Coaches

– A.K. Johnson, Bill Lawson and Sam Woods. Contributors – Jennifer Bradley,

Jim Carroll and Larry Pence. 

2000: Athletes

– Jackie Gordon, Benita Fitzgerald Mosley, Buster O'Brien and Ken Willard.

Coaches – Kate Carter and Chip

Chappell. Contributors – Delmer Botkin, Bill Leffler and Bob

Patterson. 

2001: Athlete

– Robert Banks. Coaches – Bill Brown, Jim Cutler and Willis White.

Contributors

– Buddy Comer, Ralph Harrison,

Nancy Ruth Patterson and Jim Sangston. 

2002: Athlete

– Tamela Penny. Coaches – Pat Austin, Gerald Burke, Eddie Icenhour and

Glenn Proctor. Contributors –

Claudia Dodson, Carol Lange and Hugh Pendleton. 

2003: Athletes

– Barry Hamler and Grant Hill. Coaches – Stephen Hubbard, Joe May and Lillie

Moore. Contributors – Karen Finch,

Cecil Layman Jr. and Judy Wallace. 

2004: Athletes

– Doug Bates and Bryant Stith. Coaches – Leo Anthony and Leroy Dail.

Contributors – Edward Allen,

Evelyn Dawkins, Donald Hitt and David Morgan. 

2005:

Athlete – Evan Tracy Stallard. Coaches – Dominick Joe Colobro, Frances Ann

Simpson,

Jerry Lee Slaughter, Thomas L.

Turner and Lucy Elizabeth Walker. Contributors – Larry Johnson and

Vito A. Perriello, Jr., M.D.