UMS-Wright Athletic HOF

UMS-Wright Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony September 18, 2015

2015 Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees Daniel Jason Gregory ‘95 Mary Katherine Harvill ‘98 Austin Veazey Hynson ‘99 Lundy Plash Foose ‘01 Ashley Tormoen Wright ‘03 Honorary - James LeGrande Tate ‘59

Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees Biographies

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ason Gregory graduated from UMS-Wright in 1995. This baseball standout began playing varsity baseball in the 8th grade and earned five varsity letters over his career. He helped his team win the 1993 and 1995 Baseball State Championship, and he still holds the school record for most runs scored in a season and most bases stolen. He was named Collegiate Baseball’s Preseason All-American as a junior and Mobile Press Register’s Player of the Year, as a senior.

He received the Gatorade “Circle of Champions” Player of the Year Award for the state of Alabama in 1995 and All-American Honors from both Mizuno and Team One in 1994 and 1995.

The Mobile Press Register named him one of the Super 25 for three consecutive years and named him to their Top 10 list his senior year. This All-American was also named All-State, All-Area, and All-Tournament in the Upper Deck Classic and the Mid-South Classic. For his outstanding accomplishments, he was a recipient of the Coaches’ Cup and the James “Red” Leachman Award.

Gregory was listed among Baseball America’s Top 100 high school prospects and a member of Collegiate Baseball’s High School Elite and received scholarship offers to several schools. He signed a baseball scholarship with Auburn University, the #1 collegiate baseball team in the nation at the time. He played two years and was a member of Auburn’s College World Series team in 1997. He transferred to the University of Alabama in 1998 where he continued playing baseball.

Gregory lives in Mobile and works for Willis of Alabama where he serves as the Managing Partner and CEO for the Mobile, AL operations. He currently serves on the Board of Directors & Advisors for the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce, BBVA Compass’ local advisory board, The University of South Alabama’s School of Economic & Finance Advisory Board, and Goodwill Easter Seals of the Gulf Coast Board of Directors. Jason also serves on the Senior Bowl Committee and as a “Big” for the Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Alabama. He formerly served on the Board of Directors for the YMCA and Juvenile Diabetes and is a graduate of Leadership Mobile and Leadership Alabama. He and his wife Courtney have two children, Jackson (4th) and Virginia (1st), who attend UMS-Wright.

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atie Harvill graduated from UMS-Wright in 1998. She was an all-star athlete who played soccer, basketball, softball and was a member of the swimming and diving team. She was also a member of The Cadet Staff, SGA, Chess Team, FCA, Quill & Scroll, Homecoming Court, Interact, SADD, and Spanish Club. In soccer, she was named to the Mobile Press Register’s Super Soccer Team, All-County and All-Tournament in the Lakeshore Shootout and the UMS-Wright Classic. She was also named Offensive Player of the Year during both her sophomore and junior years and Team Assist Leader and All-County her junior year. In basketball, Harvill was named team captain her senior year. She held the best free throw percentage as a sophomore and junior and had the most assists two years in a row. For her outstanding performances, she was named Honorable Mention All-State. Her awards included Captain McKinney MVP Award, Rookie of the Year, Sophomore Award, Most Outstanding Junior and Senior, and Best Offensive Player. She helped lead her team to the Finals of Alabama State Basketball Tournament in 1997. As a member of the dive team, Harvill placed 2nd in Diving at the Alabama State Swim & Dive Meet. During the off season, she passed on her soccer skills to the lower school students by coaching Intramural Soccer. It was not a surprise that “Most Athletic” was her senior superlative. For her character and leadership, she was a recipient of an Alumni Spirit Award.

Harvill now lives in New Orleans and is the founder of Matchstick Creative. Over the last three years, she has worked passionately to support LIFT (Life is Full of Transformation), an initiative of Solera Holdings, Inc. in Cambodia, India, South Africa, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, and Wyoming.

The LIFT program strives to enable second chances by providing the tools to those in need in order for them to take accountability and create a sustainable impact in their lives and community.

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ustin Hynson graduated from UMS-Wright in 1999. He was a five-year letterman in varsity golf and a member of the 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999 state championship teams. To cap his career, he was the 1999 Individual Alabama State Champion his senior year. He was named All-State and All-County four times and made eight all-tournament teams during his high school career. Hynson was the 1998 Maxfil PGA Junior Championship Dixie Section Champion and the Alabama Golf Association Age 14-15 Group Champion in 1996. He was a recipient of the Dzwonkowski Brothers Golf Award, and he was named Optimist Club Player of the Week numerous times.

Hynson continued his golf career at the University of Alabama where he was a four-year letterman and team captain. He was named to the 2003 and 2004 SEC Good Works Teams and was a twotime Academic All-SEC award winner. He had two top-20 finishes in 2002 and 2003, which included 13th at Conrad Rehling and 18th at Mason Rudolph College. In 2000, he teamed with Wesley Pate to win the collegiate championship at the Spirit of America Tournament. His sophomore year, he qualified and participated in the 2001 US Amateur. He competed in 35 tournaments for the Crimson Tide and had a 75.51 career stroke average. As a communications major, he wrote for Alabama’s football game programs as well as the golf media guide. Hynson’s golf career did not cease after college. Recently, he and Athletic Hall of Fame Member, Forrest Crabtree, qualified for the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, California.

Hynson is a past secretary of the University of Alabama Alumni Association - Mobile Chapter, and has been involved with TAP, Inc. He now lives in Mobile and is a Producer with Turner & Hamrick insurance agency.

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undy Plash Foose graduated from UMS-Wright in 2001. She was on the varsity basketball and track teams and was a member of the varsity cheerleading squad. She was also a member of the National Honor Society, Homecoming Court, Chorus, FCA, Youth in Government, French Club, and Interact. She shared her love of sports with younger bulldogs as an Intramural Coach. In basketball, she was the team co-captain and named All-County three times and All-Tournament numerous times. She led the team in field goal percentage and rebounds. She was the 5th player in UMS-Wright history to score over 1,000 points. Foose was also nominated for All-American Cheerleader. In track, she was a multi-event athlete in high jump, triple jump, long jump and the 100-meter hurdles. In 2000 and 2001, as team captain she helped her team win back to back state championships by leading the team in filed event scoring. She was a recipient of the Irene Hickcox Award, the Arlene Jones Award, the Alumni Spirit Award, the Frances Barnes Hicks Award, and the UMS-Wright Coaches Cup. Foose continued to be a two-sport athlete at Rhodes College. She lettered in both track and basketball. She was track team captain and competed in 100-meter hurdles, high jump, long jump, triple jump, and pole vault. She helped lead her team to the 2002 SCAC Women’s Track and Field Championship where she set the Rhodes College pole vault record. She also was named to the All-Conference Team Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference.

After college, Foose received her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from UAB. She is a physical therapist with Encore and has a rotation at UMS-Wright to help rehab student athletes. She is an active member and volunteer of Dauphin Way United Methodist Church and has been on Medical Missions to Trinidad. She and her husband, Curran, have two daughters, Tatum (K4) and Mabry.

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shley Wright graduated from UMS-Wright in 2003 where he was a threesport athlete who earned nine letters in football, basketball, and track. He also played soccer and baseball his freshman and sophomore years. In football, he was a wide receiver and punter. His senior year he caught 51 passes for 876 yards, and scored 13 touchdowns. His punt average was 39.1 yards. He and his team won back-to-back state championships in 2001 and 2002 under Coach Curtis. He was named All-Metro and All-State his senior year. Wright was also a valuable member of the 2001 and 2002 Outdoor Track Championship teams. He was the individual state champion in the high-jump in 2000 and 2001 and was a member of the state champion 4x100 relay team in 2001 and 2002. He set the school record of 6’8”in the high jump. He was named All-State for his track performances and All-Metro in basketball.

Wright received his undergraduate from Yale University where he was a member of the football team all four years. He was a wide receiver and the starting punter and led the Ivy League in receptions, yards, touchdowns, and yards per game, for which he was named to the All-Ivy and All-New England Teams. His senior year, his team won the Ivy League Championship.

Upon graduation, he attended law school at the University of Alabama law where he was a member of the Alabama Law Review and graduated with honors. After law school, he started his legal career at the law firm of Maynard, Cooper & Gale in Birmingham. He is currently an associate in the mergers and acquisitions practice group. He volunteers for the Birmingham Volunteer Lawyers Association where he provides pro bono legal services to indigent and homeless clients. He and his wife, Jessica, have one daughter, Ann Collins.

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im Tate graduated from UMS in 1959. During high school, he earned varsity letters in both basketball and baseball. He was a member of The Cadet Staff, the Cadet Chorus and the “W” Club.

He received his bachelor’s degree from The Citadel, where he was a Regimental Commander in Corps of Cadets, Class Vice-President, and the recipient of the John O. Willson Ring Award.

After receiving his master’s degree from the University of Alabama, Tate served five years in the U.S. Army as a field artillery officer, battery commander and paratrooper during the Vietnam War. Tate began his coaching career at Christ Church Episcopal School as the Athletic Director, and coach of basketball, track, and football teams. He then became the Athletic Director and Head Coach for basketball, cross country, and track at The Lovett School. In 1978, he returned to Mobile and became the boys varsity basketball coach at St. Paul’s Episcopal School and began the school’s cross-country and track program for boys. Since 1983, his boys and girls teams have claimed 94 separate state team championships in track and cross-country combined and another 40 state team runner-up finishes. His girl’s cross-country teams hold the current national record for the longest consecutive state championships in the nation at 16 (1983-1998). Over 60 of his former high school track and field athletes have competed in either track and/or cross-country at the collegiate level, with most of those at Division 1 institutions. Coach Tate was selected as the National Federation of Interscholastic Coaches Association’s Boy’s Cross-Country Coach of the Year in 1998, and in 2010 he was selected by the National High School Coaches Association as the National High School Girls Track & Field Coach of the Year. He has been inducted into the Mobile Sports Hall of Fame, the Christ Church Episcopal School Athletic Hall of Fame, the Alabama High School Athletic Association Athletic Hall of Fame, and the National Federation of High School’s National High School Hall of Fame. Tate enjoys spending time with his wife Becky, two sons Lee and Luther, and step-daughters Ginny and Leigh.

Athletic Hall of Fame Members 1980 Oscar N. Barney ‘08 B. R. Wilson, Jr. ‘28 William C. Martin ‘40 Thomas P. Martin ‘47 Roy F. Shoemaker ‘58 Joel B. Bullard, Jr. ‘68 B. Greer Radcliff ‘71 Brazil Simon - Honorary 1981 James McPhillips ‘19 William B. Lott ‘24 John C. Davis ‘38 Richard Flowers ‘42 W. Earle Smith, Jr. ’52 Christopher G. Hume, III ‘66 Matthew W. Mosteller ‘71 1982 Mastin Cleveland ‘14 Bert W. Milling ‘38 William B. Yost ‘42 Charles A. Graddick ‘63 Robert H. Rouse ‘73 B. R. Wilson, III ‘61 - Honorary 1983 Edgar C. Fonde ‘21 J. Burruss Semple ‘30 Joe Crabtree ‘37 Roy N. Newell ‘41 Clifton C. Inge ‘54 W. Allen Cox ‘69 Joseph W. Galloway ‘75 Thomas C. Huckabee - Honorary 1984 G. Woodrow Scott ‘39 Ray C. “Buddy” Lauten ‘46 Perry V. Lowery ‘50 John G. Walton ‘67 Paul W. Brock, Jr. ‘72 Marvin “Bull” Smith - Honorary 1985 Ben Hastie ‘21 Charles A. Chambers ‘38 Howard V. Adair ‘43 Robert P. Hall ‘50 Russell H. Anderson ‘64 Braxton C. Counts, III ‘76 R. E. Hanks - Honorary

1986 Joseph K. Roe ‘20 Andrew Edington ‘30 Charles F. Grove ‘39 Alex C. Hancock ‘44 Thomas G. Andreades ‘74 Thomas E. Powell ‘81 William Earle Smith - Honorary 1987 C. L. Burton ‘40 Gerald V. Rodgers ‘65 Robert M. Weinacker ‘73 Gregg T. Hope ‘81 Andrew M. Hinson - Honorary 1988 Gordon Smith, Jr. ‘20 Charles W. Weinacker ‘40 John H. Graddick ‘47 Dean I. Gillespie ‘52 Donald F. Pierce ‘78 John H. Hartwell ‘83 Ben H. Harris, Sr. ’27 - Honorary 1989 J. T. “Sammy” Francis ‘40 Joseph Steiner ‘46 Sidney E. Phillips ‘55 Edward E. Holmes ‘61 Eugenia Cameron Foster ‘62 T. Forress Rayford ‘70 Mary Weinacker Hale ‘78 Lisa Savell Drew ‘83 Arlene Jones Sevy ‘84 Susie Pager Parry ’84 W. Sherwood Pape ‘30 - Honorary Lois B. Lewis - Honorary 1990 Beauregard R. Ward ‘41 Nathaniel P. Harris ‘59 Serena Edgar Willcox ‘63 Louis N. DeAngelo ‘63 Kerry McKinney Ellis ‘79 Pfilip G. Hunt ‘79 Lisa Eubanks Hollingsworth ‘81 Mark F. Gottfried ‘82 Bruce Filippini - Honorary

Athletic Hall of Fame Members 1991 O. R. “Randy” Tanner, Jr. ‘61 Stephen C. Olen ‘68 Amy St. John Hamilton ‘74 Douglas L. Anderson ‘75 Mary F. Riddell ‘76 Frances St. John Rouse ‘76 Leah Yelverton Stimpson ‘76 Marion H. Lyons, III ‘81 W. Patrick Galle - Honorary 1993 William H. Lyons ‘58 O. M. Otts, III ‘63 Rea Schuessler, III ‘78 Doria D. Gibbons ‘78 Irene Hickox Holbrook ‘80 Bradley K. Hildreth ‘85 Don P. Kelly, Jr. - Honorary 1994 Oliver B. Alvarez ‘41 George V. Ward, Jr. ‘55 Joseph Jerome Masters ‘64 Linda Wert Olen ‘71 Mark C. Carmichael ‘78 Joseph H. L. Dzwonkowski, Jr. ‘80 Leslie McInvale Addison ‘83 O. M. Otts, Jr. ‘37 - Honorary 1995 Harold C. Miller ‘34 C. William Bodie ‘61 W. Lindsey Walker ‘67 Tammy Taylor Padilla ‘81 Meg Walsh Finkbohner ‘83 Douglas R. McLeod ‘83 1996 Thomas L. Comer ‘48 Robert E. Whigham, Jr. ‘56 Roy V. Elliot, Jr. ‘63 William B. Taylor, III ‘72 Richard C. Hogan ‘80 Sara Jane Wood ‘84 Douglas N. Barfield - Honorary 1997 Frederick S. Crown ‘32 Early T. Eastburn ‘57 John A. Lamey, III ‘60 Joel B. Davis ‘75 Scott N. Smith ‘81 Laura Bellew Hamby ‘85 Janey P. Miller - Honorary

1998 Walter C. Ernest, III ‘55 Fred A. Coats ‘67 W. Britton Cooper ‘83 Catharine Peebles Dukes ‘87 Steven B. Hancock ‘88 Gerald Reid - Honorary 1999 C. Ernest Edgar, Jr. ‘24 Ervin S. Cooper ‘28 Ollie H. Byrd ‘55 Kenneth L. McLaughlin ‘64 Donald A. Urquhart, Jr. ‘68 Ben L. Martin, III ‘76 Rebecca Montgomery Beall ‘89 P. Colburn Maher ‘89 2000 Donald R. Hansen ‘55 Robert M. Montiel ‘69 Jean A. Lankford ‘75 Christopher F. Hayden ‘89 Corey Galle Steele ‘90 Kenneth Skipper ‘47 - Honorary 2001 John C. Carrington ‘57 James E. Little ‘62 Allan R. Cameron ‘76 Victoria Coffer Fong ‘79 Peggy Weinacker Piggott ‘82 John E. Witherington, Jr. ‘88 Chad E. Applin ‘90 Jimmie Lee Anderson - Honorary 2002 Shirley H. Cochran, Jr. ‘53 Angus R. Cooper, II ‘60 Gary H. Dunn ‘76 Laura Yelverton Adams ‘82 Alvin K. Hope, II ‘88 Marc D. Hayden ‘92 Robert H. Radcliff, Jr. - Honorary 2003 Lee B. Graddick ‘50 Randolph S. Weaver ‘63 R. Maurice Crowe, Jr. ‘73 Bryan D. Adams ‘89 Lori Leacy Roberts ‘89 Christopher J. Walton ‘91 Walter C. Haffner, Jr. ‘62 - Honorary

Athletic Hall of Fame Members 2004 Charles J. Smith ‘58 Frank A. Alardo ‘66 J. Noel Turner ‘78 Robert V. Dzwonkowski ‘82 Travis E. Havens ‘93 Allison R. Beebe ‘94 E. Gordon Doody, Jr. - Honorary 2005 Francis S. Wold ‘49 Bert W. Milling, Jr. ‘64 Robert Bruce King ‘78 Mimi Jardine ‘81 Roderick B. Slater ‘83 M. Bancroft McMurphy, III ‘92 Aimee Holmes Stone ‘94 Ken McWilliams - Honorary 2006 Robert L. Comer ‘45 J. Gary Willard ‘77 Ralph W. Mitchell, Jr. ‘86 Helen Sullivan Britnell ‘90 Edmund G. Doody, III ‘95 2007 R. Owen Blackwell, III ‘56 Jimmy D. Shoulders ‘78 C. Hamilton McGuire ‘80 Elizabeth Damson Freeman ‘94 Matthew Phillip Brennan ‘96 Ethel Gholston - Honorary 2008 William M. Sims ‘52 O. Lee Wilson, III ‘78 Charlotte Powell Andrews ‘84 B. Drake Ibsen ‘87 Shane J. Mills ‘91 Carolyn Meador Marston ‘97 Laura E. Hancock ‘98 Sam S. Haginas ‘98 Kemper Todd - Honorary 2009 J. Ferrell Grimes ‘65 Charlotte C. Windham ‘77 Kevin K. Hays ‘83 J. McDavid Miller ‘97 Hilton Billingsley Mostellar ‘97 Steve Kittrell - Honorary

2010 Herbert S. Solberg ‘52 Robert M. Hope, Jr. ‘79 Kenneth W. Wear, Jr ‘83 Phillip S. Willingham, Jr. ‘97 Brooke Jarrell Bayne ‘99 Michael Allen Jacobs - Honorary 2011 Brad R. Thompson ‘90 M. Cullen Thompson, Jr. ‘95 Branden O. Phillips ‘98 Brooke Beard Dodson ‘01 Molly Crown Nordmann ’76 - Honorary 2012 Lonnie P. Cleveland ’56 John D. Williams ’89 Donald A. Urquhart, III ’98 Le’Von D. Pears ’00 Hallie S. Blunck ‘02 Harry A. Luscher – Honorary 2013 Warren E. Koffler ’68 Forrest G. Crabtree ’97 Adam N. Hardy ’00 Alice Johnston Parker ’00 T. Forress Rayford, Jr. ‘03 Terry Curtis – Honorary 2014 William C. Sharpe ‘62 Garrett Williamson ‘87 Kami Smith Ralph ‘96 Matthew Heinz Pierce ‘02 Edra Elise Finley ‘03 Joseph R. N. Sykora ‘03

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