2024 INDUCTEES 2024 Inductee Highlights Jere Adock’s career highlights Jere Adcock, 68, the Handley native came to Decatur High as an assistant football 1994 and was elevated to head coach in 1996. His teams won 187 games in 27 seasons with five 10-plus win seasons, seven region championships and 21 playoff appearances. The program had 40 […]
2023 INDUCTEE – DR. FRANK SYKES By David Elwell The Decatur Daily Alice Sykes says her father was not a man who talked much and especially about himself. If the late Dr. Frank Sykes had been a talker, he would have had many amazing stories to share. On the baseball field, the Decatur native was
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2023 INDUCTEE – KEITH AND KAREN WILEMON By David Elwell The Decatur Daily FALKVILLE – A new addition to the landscape in the south Morgan County town is a giant mural on the side of an old building next to U.S. 31. The mural proudly salutes the founding and history of Falkville. Across the bottom
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2023 INDUCTEE – MIKE BURNS By David Elwell The Decatur Daily When you are a junior college baseball coach, the everlasting search for talent can take you down many different paths. One path could be as simple as a pro scout calling about an unknown talent with the potential to be a well-known player one
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2023 INDUCTEE – GARY COUEY By David Elwell The Decatur Daily The days of high school sports at Cotaco ended in 1972. Despite the passing of time, the stories of the athletes and teams from the small community school that now feeds into Brewer High are larger than ever. One of those athletes was basketball
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2023 INDUCTEE – JOE EDWARDS By David Elwell The Decatur Daily The story of the basketball career of the late Joe Edwards is about a classic late bloomer. Edwards played in high school for the Priceville Bulldogs. It wasn’t until he played in college for what is now the University of North Alabama that he
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2023 INDUCTEE – ROBERT POPE By David Elwell The Decatur Daily DANVILLE – The glass on the trophy case at the Danville High Gym is only opened for special occasions. It’s usually for a new trophy to be added to the collection honoring success by the Hawks. On a sunny afternoon the trophy case was
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2023 INDUCTEE – MYLES HAMMON By David Elwell The Decatur Daily A memory can sometimes become distorted with the passage of time. Doug Vest says his memories from Sept. 7, 1961, remain crystal clear. That was the night the Falkville Blue Devils made the short trip to Hartselle to play the then Morgan County High
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2023 INDUCTEE – SHONDRA FULLER By David Elwell The Decatur Daily When Shondra Fuller joined the basketball program at Decatur High, head coach Mike Smith walked her over to the area under the basket. “I pointed to this block and then the other block,” Smith said. “I told her the space in between belongs to
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2023 INDUCTEE – KATHLEEN MCRIGHT SLATEN By David Elwell The Decatur Daily If only old black and white photos could talk. In particular, it’s a photo of the 1940 Austinville girls basketball team that holds secrets. What was basketball like for these young ladies just one year before the beginning of World War II? Standing
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