Lookout Mountain Hall of Fame inductees announced

Short bios on the 10 people being inducted in the Lookout Mountain Sports Hall of Fame on May 3 at Lookout Mountain School gym (3 p.m.):

YOGI ANDERSON (wrestling)

He was a 1968 wrestling state champion for Notre Dame HS, which won the team title, and then earned 12 varsity letters at Sewanee (in football, wrestling and baseball); three-time Collegiate Athletic Conference wrestling champion; team captain in wrestling and baseball; former head wrestling coach at both alma maters.

CHRIS BROWN (tennis)

He was a three-time Southern singles champion as a junior tennis player (1959, 1961, 1962) and a three-time state champion at Notre Dame (1962-64), which won two team titles in that span; later a Men's City champion and was ranked in the top 10 nationally in various age groups in the early 1960s; reached the national hard courts 18s semifinals; went on to Georgia Tech.

BILL CAULKINS (softball)

The longtime area swimming referee and meet coordinator -- the CASL city meet now is named for him -- also was a player and commissioner for 50 years in the Lookout Mountain men's slowpitch softball league. He was on McCallie's 1947 Mid-South football championship team before going on to North Carolina and Alabama. His daughter Betsy was inducted in the Lookout Mountain hall in 2010.

ROB HEALY (wrestling/football)

The two-time national wrestling champion at Baylor (1968, 1969) and three-time Mid-South champion also was a 100-yard dash champion in 1968 and won the Mid-South pole vault event twice. He was the Rye Bell Award winner as the top prep athlete in Chattanooga in 1969 and then played in three football bowl games with Georgia Tech. He follows his father Bill (1991) and brother Chip (2010) as Lookout Mountain hall members.

SKEETER JOHNSTON (polo)

The Baylor School graduate, being honored posthumously, was co-founder of the North American Polo League and governor-at-large of the U.S. Polo Association. He was captain of polo teams that won the 1982 Cartier International Open, 1988 $100,000 Gold Cup, two USPA Heritage Cups and the 2003 Hall of Fame Cup.

KING OEHMIG (golf)

He coached Baylor School to 12 girls' and nine boys' state golf championships and was national coach of the year in 2006-07. Five girls won 11 individual state titles and three boys won four titles during his tenure. He lettered three years at Baylor and was All-Mid-South in 1968-69 and lettered four years and was team MVP at Virginia. His father Lew, like Bill Healy, was in the first Lookout Mountain hall class in 1991.

TOBY SILBERMAN (football)

An all-city team captain for Baylor in football and baseball, and quarterback of the 1961 Mid-South football champions, Silberman made his national mark as a football official. He was a back judge in the Southern Conference 1977-83 and a back judge in the Southeastern Conference 1984-2001 and was a crew chief for three years. He worked a Sun Bowl and a Blue-Gray Game and the first two SEC championship games.

FORREST SIMMONS (tennis)

He was ranked No. 1 in the South and No. 6 nationally (and No. 2 in doubles) in 14s and won the Southern Closed 16s singles crown before winning a Georgia high school state championship at Westminster in Atlanta and a Chattanoooga men's city title. He won Atlantic Coast Conference singles and doubles titles at North Carolina.

ERIC VOGES (tennis)

A 1981 state doubles champion player at McCallie, he has coached the Blue Tornado to six state championships. He was a team captain for Tennessee as a junior and senior in Knoxville. He's a USPTA teaching pro highly regarded for his work with junior players, and the Strang-Voges Tennis Center at McCallie is named for him and his former coach. Voges' aunt, Marilyn Voges Brown, was inducted in the Lookout Mountain hall in 2008.

SUE WEBB (tennis)

A three-time NCAA Division II All-American at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, she was a two-time D-II national doubles champion and still is proficient. She is ranked No. 7 in her age-group world doubles rankings and last year won the USTA 50s clay-court doubles national title and earned a bronze medal in the world championships. The Fairyland Club teaching pro coached Chattanooga Christian School to six girls' and four boys' state titles before giving up that position.

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