Twelve major contributors to prep athletics in Alabama have been selected for induction into the Alabama High School Sports Hall of Fame in the Class of 2024.

The induction will take place at a banquet held at the Montgomery Renaissance Hotel and Spa Convention Center next March. The Class of 2024 was announced by AHSAA Executive Director Alvin Briggs and Alabama High School Athletic Directors & Coaches Association (AHSADCA) Director Brandon Dean on Friday.

The class was selected at a meeting of the selection committee assembled by the AHSADCA. A total of 59 nominations were submitted by member schools and other organizations.

The Class of 2024 includes administrators, coaches and two selections from the “old timer” category.

Those individuals selected were: football coaches Phillip Lolley, Rick Rhoades, and Perry Swindall; basketball coaches Charles “Chucky” Miller and Thomas “Mike” Boyd; wrestling coach Richard “Dickey” Wright; baseball and football coach/athletic director Ron Nelson; softball, baseball and basketball coach Christopher Goodman; track and football coach Eddie Brundige; administrator Kimberly Vickers; and selected from the “Old-Timers’ Division, coach/administrators Frank “Swede” Kendall and Cornell “C.T.” Torrence.

This group includes a basketball coach, Chucky Miller, now retired, who follows his own father Chuck Miller, into the Alabama High School Sports Hall of Fame. Both won over 700 games in the high school coaching careers – with both spending most of their careers coaching at Talladega High School – where the gymnasium is named in honor of the elder Miller and the floor is named in honor of the younger Miller.

Vickers served as an outstanding English teacher, softball coach and assistant athletic director at Benjamin Russell and Horseshoe Bend High Schools before joining the AHSAA staff in 2014 as an assistant director. In 2021, she became the first female in AHSAA history to become Associate Executive Director of the organization. Brundidge, who currently serves as head football and head track coach at Houston Academy, is one of state’s most successful track and field coaches. Prior to joining the Houston Academy staff, he guided T.R. Miller’s track program to seven state championships and was a key assistant coach for the Tigers’ ultra-successful football program.

Kendall, who served on the AHSAA Central Board of Control for 17 years, is known as the “Father of AHSAA North-South All-Star Games.” He played a key role helping start the North-South All-Star Football Game in 1948 and the North-South Basketball All-Star Game in 1951. He was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 1980. Rhoades is the only coach in AHSAA history to capture an AHSAA state football championship as a head coach and a national football championship at the collegiate level as a head coach.

The Alabama High School Athletic Directors & Coaches Association, the coaches’ wing of the AHSAA, oversees the Hall of Fame. A selection committee comprised of coaches, administrators and media representatives made the selections from a very impressive list of nominations.

“We thank the committee for their willingness to take on the difficult task of selecting this year’s inductees,” said Brandon Dean, Director of the AHSADCA. “We appreciate all the member schools who submitted their respective nominees. The nominees have dedicated their lives to help promote and support education-based athletics. We can’t thank them enough for their service and sacrifice.”

The first class was inducted in 1991. These 12 new inductees will push the total enshrined into the Alabama High School Sports Hall of Fame to 402.

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