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(February 18, 2000) Walters State Community College Bill Carlyle was head basketball and baseball coach of Sacramento, KY from 1962-64; assistant basketball coach of Bulls Gap High School 1964-65; and head boys’ and girls’ basketball coach of Maury High School 1965-67. He led the girls to the 1966 TN Secondary Schools Athletic Association Girls State Championship and was presented a key to the city of Dandridge, TN, upon the team’s return from the state tournament. The record that year was 39-3. In 1967, the boys team of Maury High qualified for Region One tournament for the first time in the history of the school with a record of 23-9. Girls’ basketball team won the District 4 regular season championship, the District 4 tournament championship, the Region 1 championship and were defeated in the State Tournament by the state champion, Porter High School. Both years of coaching the girls earned Coach Carlyle a record of 70 wins and 7 loses. He was voted Coach of the Year - District 4 1968-1970, Carlyle was Asst. Coach - East Tennessee State University. In 1968 the team won the Ohio Valley Conference and went on to beat Florida State in the N.C.A.A. This team made it to the Sweet Sixteen. In 1970-71, he was Head Coach of Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa. Team finished with a 17-7 record, the best in 10 years. From 1971-72, team finished with a record of 18-6 and broke into the top 20 in the nation. In 1971, Bill was selected to appear in Outstanding Young Men in America. 1972-73 Team finished with a record of 18-8 and finished in the top 20. The team had a 2nd place finish after two rounds in the NAIA tournament and was defeated by Northern Iowa University. From 1973-77 he was Assistant Coach at Oklahoma State University, Big 8 Conference. 1977-present, Carlyle is Head Basketball Coach and High School Relations Coordinator at Walters State Community College. His teams have won 449 while losing 179 which is an average of 20 games won a year for 22 years. His overall coaching record is 668-283 for a percentage of 70.4%. February 18, 2000, he was inducted into the Tennessee Junior and Community College Athletic Association Hall of Fame and on February 19, 2000 he was inducted into the Cumberland College Athletic Hall of Fame. Eighty-four (84) of his players have earned scholarships with universities and colleges throughout the country. Under his guidance WSCC teams have won or tied 10 Tennessee Junior and Community College Athletic Association Eastern Division championships. Coach Carlyle has accumulated 10 TJCCAA Coach of the Year Awards his latest in 1999. On January 8, 1997 Coach Carlyle was honored by Dr. Jack Campbell and Mayor J.B. Shockley for winning his 400th game at Walters State and 661th overall. Dr. Campbell presented him with a gold watch which had 400 wins inscribed on the back. Mayor J.B. Shockley made January 8th Bill Carlyle Day in Morristown and read a proclamation honoring him from the city of Morristown. 1999-2000 begins Coach Carlyle’s 23rd year as Head Basketball Coach at Walters State and 37th year coaching and teaching over all. (February 17, 2001) Cleveland State Community College More than 30 years of service to Tennessee Junior and Community College athletics will be recognized when James Cigliano, Cleveland State Community College vice president for student services and former athletic director, is inducted into the Tennessee Junior and Community College Sports Hall of Fame Saturday, February 17, at the L. Quentin Lane Gymnasium on the campus of Cleveland State. The induction ceremony will be held at half-time of the men’s basketball game against Hiwassee College. Immediately following the game, there will be a reception in Cigliano’s honor in the Foundation Room of the George L. Mathis Student Center. Cigliano’s induction into the Hall of Fame recognizes his longstanding dedication and exceptional contribution to Tennessee Junior and Community College athletics. A native of La Follette, Cigliano spent much of his youth in Dover, N.J., where he excelled in basketball and baseball. Following his graduation from Dover High School in 1957, he attended Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, on a basketball scholarship. While a student at LMU, he earned varsity letters in baseball and basketball. Cigliano’s coaching career began upon his graduation from LMU, when he accepted a position at Shelbyville High School in Shelbyville, Del., where he directed football, basketball and baseball programs from 1961 to 1964. In 1965, Cigliano accepted a position as an admissions counselor and recruiter at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he coordinated recruiting visits for the athletic department. Cigliano’s career at Cleveland State began soon after the community college was founded in 1967. He was hired as director of admissions, and quickly assumed the position of director of athletics. Cigliano was instrumental in forming the Tennessee Junior and Community College Athletic Association (TJCCAA). Under his leadership, Cleveland State teams have won division, state and regional championships and have garnered recognition and respect throughout the country competing in national tournaments. During his tenure as athletic director, Cigliano also oversaw facility improvements and founded the Cleveland State Community College Athletic Council, established to endow athletic scholarships. (February 2, 2002) Volunteer State Community College John Richard Moore has dedicated his life to sports and has managed to succeed beyond expectations along this nearly 50 year sojourn. He has excelled as a player and coach at both the high school and college levels, breaking 11 individual and career records in the early 1960’s as a quarterback at Austin Peay State University and, as a high school coach, being named basketball Coach of the Year in 1968. As a student athlete in high school, Moore lettered in three sports. In college, where he succeeded both on an off the field, he was awarded the APSU Russell Award for Leadership and Academics. Since becoming Athletic Director at Volunteer State Community College, Moore has led Volunteer State sports to five national tournaments, five regional trophies and 18 division titles. The women’s basketball team has been to two national tournaments (‘75 and ‘93), won the Region VII and State Championship (1993) and won two Western Division titles (‘99 and ‘00); the men’s basketball team has been to a national championship once (1982), won the Region VII and State Championship in 1982 and were co-champs of the Western Division; the men’s baseball team has been to he World Series twice, won three Region and State Championships (‘95, ‘99 and ‘01) and won nine Western Division titles; and, the women s softball team has won six division titles. In 1998-99, Volunteer State won the TJCCAA Mi-Sports Award. Moore was born April 2, 1941, in Newton County, Georgia. He graduated from Newton County High School in 1959, having lettered in football, basketball and baseball. He went on to Austin Peay State University, where between 1959-1963 he eventually became a standout quarterback, receiving an Honorable Mention Little MI-American award and shattering 11 individual and career records. He received a bachelor’s degree from APSU in 1963 and a master’s degree from APSU in 1971. He started his coaching career at Rockdale County High School in Conyers, Georgia, from 1963-1970. He was the head basketball and baseball coach, and assistant football coach. In 1968, his basketball team was Region champs and State Runner Ups. That year, he was named basketball Coach of the Year. He joined Volunteer State in 1971 as Athletic Director and head basketball coach. He later became the head golf coach from 1972-75. As the basketball coach, he was named Western Division Coach of the Year in 1973. He has built an impressively successful athletic program at Volunteer State Community College and has virtually made its baseball team a training ground for some of the state’s best ball players. Moore, who has hosted four state and regional athletic tournaments, was elected in August as chair of the TJCCAA Athletic Directors and Coaches Committee. For 8 years, he has served on the Tennessee Board of Regents Insurance Committee of College Athletics. Moore is married to Judith Hester Moore, a retired Gallatin artist. They have two adult daughters, two grandsons and one granddaughter. (February 15, 2003) Volunteer State Community College Hal R. Ramer, President Emeritus, Volunteer State Community College, Gallatin, Tennessee, became its Founding President on July 1, 1970. He is a member of the Presidents Council of the Tennessee Board of Regents. Dr. Ranier is a native of Kenton, Tennessee, and is a graduate of George Peabody College (B.S., 1947) and the University of Tennessee (MS., 1952). He received his Ph.D. degree in 1963 in higher education administration from The Ohio State University where he served during ten years, 1953-1963, in the positions of Staff Assistant to the President, Assistant Dean of Men, and Director of the George Wells Knight International Center. At Ohio State, he was a member of Romophos and Bucket & Dipper honoraries and served as the faculty advisor of Alpha Phi Omega and the Social Board. He helped organize and is active in The Ohio State University Alumni Club of Middle Tennessee. Prior to his community college presidency, Dr. Ramer served for seven years (1963-1970) as Assistant State Commissioner for Higher Education of the Tennessee Department of Education where he was head of the administrative staff of the division of higher education with the State Board of Education, then the governing board for the six State regional universities, the community college system, and the technical institutes. Working with the Governor and State Legislature, he assisted the State Commissioner of Education and the State Board of Education in the establishment of the statewide system of community colleges. He received the State Department of Education’s Distinguished Service Award in 1970. On January 10, 2000, State Representative Mike McDonald, at the United Chambers of Commerce of Sumner County meeting, honored Dr. Ramer with a legislative proclamation recognizing his 46 years of service to higher education which includes his service as the Founding President of Volunteer State Community College. Dr. Ramer received a presidential Service Award at the national Convention of the American Association of Community Colleges meeting at Opryland Hotel on April 9, 1999 for his number of years as founding president of Volunteer State Community College. Also, he received the 1999 Otis Floyd, Jr. statewide Award for Excellence in Administration from the Tennessee College Public Relations Association. Larry Brewer was born June 22, 1951 in Collinwood, Tennessee. He graduated from Collinwood High School in 1968 and received a basketball scholarship to play at Columbia State Community College. After attending Columbia State for two years and playing basketball there, he transferred to the University of Tennessee at Martin where he earned the Bachelor of Science degree in Health and Physical Education. He later attended Tennessee State University where in 1980 Coach Brewer earned the Master’s degree in Educational Administration. Larry Brewer’s had a career basketball coaching record of 546-214. He began his coaching career at Collinwood High School in 1973 and coached there for eleven years, 1973 - 1981 and 1986 - 1988. During his tenure at Collinwood High the Lady Trojans won four district and regional championships; earned four Sub-State and three State tournament appearances; and were the TSSAA State Champions in 1968. After compiling a record of 238-86 in his eleven years of coaching the Lady Trojans of Collinwood High School, in the fall of 1988 Larry returned to Columbia State Community College as Coach of the Lady Chargers. During his coaching career of fifteen years as head coach of the Columbia State Community College Women’s Basketball Teams, the Lady Chargers were TJCCAA Western Division Champions nine times with five of those season being undefeated in the Western Division of the TJCCAA. The Lady Chargers also were TJCCAA Champions three times; Regional Runner-up three times; and Regional Champions in 1999 - 2000. The 2000 Regional Championship rewarded the Lady Chargers with a trip to the National Junior College Athletic Association’s National Tournament for the first time in the history of Columbia State. The Lady Chargers won their first game and advanced to the final eight undefeated teams in the National Tournament. Coach Brewer’s record for the fifteen years at the helm of the Columbia State Community College Lady Chargers was 308-128.
During Coach
Brewer’s tenure at Columbia State Community College his primary
responsibility was coaching the Women’s Basketball Team; however, he
also coached softball and tennis. He was instrumental in assisting with
the development of the Softball Complex on the Columbia State Community
College campus. Coach Brewer retired at the end of the 2003 academic
year and was inducted into the TJCCAA Hall of Fame on January 31, 2004.
(December 19, 2004) WALTERS STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE David Kragel was born August 25, 1954 in Denison, Iowa. He graduated from Corning High School in Corning, Iowa in 1972. While in high school, Kragel earned All-State honors in football, basketball, baseball, and track. From Corning, David moved to Creston, Iowa where he attended Southwestern Community College. He played basketball and baseball. He was selected First Team All-American in basketball; leading the nation in scoring his sophomore year. He was also named to Who's Who Among Junior College Students. Kragel earned a scholarship to Division 1 Oklahoma State University where he played for two years. He earned MVP honors his senior year and was selected Most Valuable Person by the Stillwater Fast Break Club. He then served as the graduate assistant coach while pursuing the Master of Business Education Degree. Coach Kragel was employed by President Jack E. Campbell as the Women’s Basketball Coach for Walters State Community College in 1977. While at Walters State, Kragel has led the Lady Senators to six state championships and 3 national tournament appearances. His longest consecutive home winning streak at Walters State occurred between 1990 and 1995 and was 47 games. Coach Kragel is among the ten with most wins of the junior and community college coaches in the nation. He began the 2004-2005 season with a record of 563 wins and 208 losses. David Kragel is married to the former Sharlene Sears. They have two sons, Alex, who is married to former Lady Senator, Amanda Boles, and is assisting Coach Kragel with the Women’s Basketball Team at Walters State and Ryan, who is in his first year of pharmacy school at Wingate University. David is a member of First Methodist Church in Morristown, Tennessee. In addition to coaching Women’s Basketball at Walters State, Coach Kragel has been in charge of numerous basketball camps, coached Minor and Little League baseball, and coached AYSO soccer.
DR. JACK E. CAMPBELL (November 19, 2005) WALTERS STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE Dr. Jack E. Campbell, president emeritus of Walters State Community College, earned the Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Education and the Master’s Degree in Educational Administration from East Tennessee State University. Dr. Campbell also earned a second Master’s Degree in Guidance and Educational Psychology at the University of Alabama and the Doctorate of Education Degree in Higher Education Administration at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Campbell was employed as Dean of the College at Calhoun State Community College in Decatur, Alabama, from 1967 until the fall of 1974, when he returned to his native state of Tennessee to become President of Walters State at age 35. In 2005, Dr. Campbell completed his 31st year as President of Walters State Community College. Under his leadership, Walters State has grown to have four campuses, an Exposition Center, and a Regional Law Enforcement Academy. During his tenure as President of Walters State, Dr. Campbell received several honors including being named in 1986 as one of the nation’s most effective chief executives in higher education. Dr. Campbell has been very active in his community and has served in leadership positions at the local, state and national levels including member and vice chair of the Morristown Industrial Board; member of the Board of Directors of Jefferson Federal Bank; member and past president of the Morristown Area Chamber of Commerce; and member of the Walters State Foundation Board of Trustees. He served for six years as a member of the Morristown-Hamblen Healthcare System Board of Directors and as Vice President and President for four years. Dr. Campbell has been widely recognized as a president who provided unwavering leadership in the development of an intercollegiate athletic program of the highest quality and one who made a significant impact at the state and national levels. His vision for excellence in intercollegiate athletics was realized throughout his tenure at Walters State Community College as he ensured that the athletic program was included and recognized as an integral component of the mission of the college. His vision for a successful athletic program was that the college’s teams would win, but would win with character and integrity. He believed that students who might not otherwise attend college would attend college to participate in intercollegiate athletics and that these students would receive effective instruction from their coaches and teachers not only in sports skills but in life skills as well. He employed highly qualified staff and coaches who embraced his vision and supported them and worked with them to build one of the most successful athletic programs in the state and nation among community colleges. Dr. Campbell was extremely active with the TJCCAA and served as the association’s vice president and president for several years. He was instrumental in convincing the Tennessee Board of Regents and The Tennessee Higher Education Commission that intercollegiate athletics added great value to the community colleges and had a strong role in the development of operational and funding guidelines whereby the community colleges could sustain effective programs. As a member of the American Association of Community College Board of Directors he supported the NJCAA and engendered support at the state and regional level for important national issues. Dr. Campbell and his wife, Diane, are the parents of two children. Their son, Bradford, and daughter-in-law, Laura, are both pharmacists and have one child, Cooper Campbell. Their daughter, Kellie, recently earned her Master’s Degree from East Tennessee State University.
(DECEMBER 9, 2006) JACKSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE Jim Swope has distinguished himself in coaching basketball, baseball, and softball for over 25 years. Jim began his coaching career at the University of Tennessee at Martin in 1964 as an Assistant and Freshman Head Basketball Coach. He served as the Men’s Basketball Coach at Jackson State Community College (1968-70); Assistant Basketball Coach at UT-Martin (1970-1975); Men’s Basketball Coach at Union University (1975-1987); Men’s and Women’s Basketball Coach at Jackson State Community College (1987-1994). Coach Swope was also instrumental in starting softball at Jackson State, serving as the Head Coach from 1995 through the end of the 1997 season. He served as the Director of Athletics and Chairman of the Education and Physical Education Department from 1997 to 2002. Jim currently serves as a full time faculty member in the Education and Physical Education department at Jackson State. He has compiled outstanding coaching records in several sports: Basketball (298-257); Baseball (91-39); Softball (51-37) for an overall record of (439-331). During his tenure as Men’s Basketball Coach at Union University, Jim completed three 20-win seasons and was the school’s first men’s basketball coach to post back-to-back 20 victory seasons. In 1989, he was named both Men’s and Women’s Basketball Coach of the Year in the Western Division of the Tennessee Junior and Community College Athletic Association. As a baseball coach at the University of Tennessee at Martin, his teams won 70 percent of the games and two Volunteer State Athletic Conference titles. His softball teams at Jackson State finished second in the Western Division in two of the three seasons he coached. On December 9, 2006, in ceremonies at Jackson State Community College in Jackson, Tennessee, Jim Swope was inducted by TJCCAA Commissioner L. Quentin Lane into the Tennessee Junior and Community College Hall of Fame. Jim and his wife, Linda, have two children, daughter Piper Taylor and son, John Swope, and eight grandchildren.
(2007) Cleveland State Community College Steve Longley, after graduating in 1961 from Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, played professional baseball for three years with the Cincinnati Reds and then began his educational career as a teacher and coach of baseball, basketball and football at Darlington School in Rome, Georgia. He became Assistant Professor of Health, Physical Education and Recreation in 1969 at Cleveland State Community College in Cleveland, Tennessee and retired in 2006 after thirty-six years service at the same institution. During his tenure at Cleveland State Community College, in addition to his teaching duties, Steve served as the Head Baseball Coach for fourteen years; as the Assistant Baseball Coach for five years; as the Golf Coach for three years; as the Assistant Softball Coach for two years; and as the Athletic Director for one year. During his coaching career, Steve was voted five times by his peers as the TJCCAA Eastern Division Baseball Coach of the Year, four times as the TJCCAA Baseball Conference Coach of the Year, and one time as the NJCAA Eastern District Baseball Coach of the Year. His overall coaching record was 446 wins and 181 losses for a .781 won/lost percentage. During Steve’s coaching career at Cleveland State, forty-eight of his players were selected as All-Conference Players; five were selected as the Most Valuable Players of the Conference; twenty-seven were selected as All-NJCAA Region VII Players; four were selected as All-American Players; one was named the 1980 Most Valuable Player in the NJCAA JUCO World Series; and thirty-nine of the players he coached were drafted to play professional baseball. The baseball teams Steve coached were TJCCAA Eastern Division Champions nine years; Conference Champions five years; NJCAA Region VII Champions 5 years; NJCAA Eastern District Champions; finished second in the NJCAA JUCO World Series; finished second in the nation in 1992 in team batting average at .382; and was one of three Junior College Teams in the nation to receive a bat contract with Louisville Slugger. The Golf Team Steve coached went to the NJCAA Tournament two times and while serving as the Assistant Softball Coach the Softball Teams went to the NJCAA Tournament two times, finishing third and sixth in the Nation. Steve was inducted into the Tennessee Junior and Community College (TJCCAA) Hall of Fame for 2007; inducted in 2000 into the Tennessee Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame; voted in 1999 as the Most Outstanding Teacher by the Student Body of Cleveland State; was inducted into the Chattanooga Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996; included in Who’s Who in America in 1981; Who’s Who in the South and Southwest in 1976; Outstanding Educators of America in 1974. Steve played baseball at the University of Tennessee; is a U. T. T-Club member, where he earned the B. S. and M. S. degrees in 1967 and 1969 respectively. He and his wife, Angie, are members of the First Baptist Church in Cleveland, Tennessee and have two children, Melissa and Caleb. (2008) VOLUNTEER STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE Bobby Hudson, a native of Gallatin, Tennessee, is married to Karen and has two step daughters, Amanda and Lauren. Bobby Hudson earned the Associate of Science degree at Volunteer State and the Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees at Middle Tennessee State University. Bobby has been a student, coach, and/or administrator at Volunteer State Community College for twenty-five years. For twenty-two years, he served as both the Men’s and Women’s Basketball Coach. He led the Lady Pioneers to a TJCCAA and NJCAA Regional Championship and a trip to the NJCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament. He served for four years in various student assistant basketball positions at Middle Tennessee State University; as a teacher and coach at Shelbyville Central High School; as a teacher and assistant coach at Beech High School; and as a teacher and coach at Knox Doss Junior High School. Bobby served for one year as Assistant NJCAA Regional Men’s Director and has for the past fifteen years served as the NJCAA Regional Men’s Director. He serves on the NJCAA Division I Baseball Committee and as Co-Chair of the Nominations and Election Committee. He has served on the NJCAA Executive Committee; NJCAA Division I Baseball Committee; NJCAA Division II Soccer Committee; NJCAA Division II Tennis Committee; the TJCCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Committees; and the TJCCAA Softball Committee. While attending college, Bobby was selected as a member of Who’s Who in American Junior Colleges and Outstanding Young Men of America. He currently serves on the Volunteer State Community College Alumni Advisory Council. Bobby Hudson hosted all the TJCCAA All-Star Basketball Games; has hosted the vast majority of the TJCCAA/NJCAA Region VII Athletic Directors and Coaches Meetings during the past twenty years; and has made an extremely positive impact upon the TJCCAA and NJCAA Region VII. |
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