Greater Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame 2016 inductees:
Read a full story about several of the inductees here.
* Jeff Boehm (wrestling): He was a Mid-South wrestling champion for Baylor School in 1958, 1959 and 1960 and was the Red Raiders' captain in 1960 and the University of Virginia wrestling captain in 1963 and 1964, the same two years he won Chattanooga Intercollegiate championships. He received a law degree from the University of Tennessee in 1973, after a distinguished four-year military career in which he received the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry three times and two U.S. Silver Star medals.
* Paul Brock Jr. (special category): The Soddy-Daisy High School graduate is being inducted for his playing and coaching success in volleyball and his extensive work in building the sport in the area. A USA Volleyball first-team All-American who played in six U.S. Open national championship tournaments, including once with a Chattanooga team that finished second - that team also had two firsts and a second in the largest USA adult tournament in the country - he has a record of 824-322 as a head coach. He was the Girls Preparatory School head coach from 1994 through last fall and has been the club director for the Scenic City, Dig To Win and Choo-Choo City organizations. He's a Southern Region Volleyball board member and has coached eight high school All-Americans, more than 70 all-state players and more than 150 who went on to play in college. He had three high school state championships and two runner-up finishes from 2000 to 2008.
* Ron Campbell (baseball): Born in Chattanooga, the current Cleveland resident grew up in Decatur and starred in three sports at Meigs County High School and then played basketball and baseball at Tennessee Wesleyan College, passing up a football scholarship to Tennessee, before embarking on a pro career that included eight years in the Chicago Cubs organization and three at the Class AAA level with the Pittsburgh Pirates' Class AAA team. A third baseman who also played some at second base and shortstop, he made major league appearances in 1964-66 and had two three-hit games, finishing his big-league career with a .247 average, one home run (off Ray Sadecki) and 14 RBIs. One of his hits was off Cardinals ace Bob Gibson. Cubs teammates at the time included Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Ferguson Jenkins, Ron Santo, Don Kessinger and Lou Brock.
* Susan Carson (tennis): The 1973 Chattanooga High School graduate played three sports there and twice was a volleyball district MVP. She also became a volleyball standout at UTC, making the all-state college team in 1975 and 1976, but her most notable accomplishments were in the other net sport. She was on two UTC national champion teams and was a doubles national champion and singles third-place national finisher in 1978, earning All-American honors. She was a three-time open doubles champion and the 1985 singles champion in the City Closed tennis tournament and served multiple years as head tennis professional for the Cumberland and East Ridge youth foundations.
* Jim Cigliano (officials/administrators): The Cleveland State Community College administrator for 38 years - beginning as director of admissions when the school opened in 1967 - followed 22 years as athletic director with nine as vice president of student affairs, with athletics among his areas to oversee. He retired from the college in 2005 and then became commissioner of the Tennessee Community College Athletic Association. By the mid-1980s, during his time as Cleveland State's AD, it became the first two-year college in the state to have all of its sports programs go to their respective national tournaments. A native of Lafollette, Tenn., who grew up in New Jersey, he was a high school baseball and basketball all-star and played both sports back in Tennessee at Lincoln Memorial University. At times in his life he has coached baseball, basketball and football at the high school and youth levels.
* Mike Craft (officials/administrators): A former Anniston, Ala., state champion wrestler who lettered in the sport four years at UTC in the early 1970s, he has been a TSSAA wrestling official for 38 years and has been selected 28 years in a row to referee state finals. He also has worked Southeastern and Southern conference tournaments and four NCAA regionals. He won a TSSAA A.F. Bridges Distinguished Service Award in 2013 and was the Wrestling USA Magazine national official of the year in 2014. Craft coached at Jacksonville State for two years while working on his master's degree and has coached at the elementary and middle school level for 32 years.
* Susan Lance Crownover (softball): Also a special award recipient at this year's induction banquet - sharing the Morgan/Morris Award for overcoming adversity with her son Matthew - the longtime Girls Preparatory School coach was a multiyear all-state softball and basketball player at Ringgold High School and played basketball on scholarship at UTC before knee surgeries ended her career. She was the Southern Conference freshman of the year and set the Mocs' single-game assists record. She was on a state-runner-up team in basketball at Ringgold and two Georgia champions and two second-place teams in softball. She has coached Bruisers teams to eight TSSAA state titles and seven runner-up finishes in softball and two state titles in basketball. She had a 171-69 basketball record and has a 559-203 record in the diamond sport, with more than 25 players who signed Division I athletic scholarships.
* Gibby Gilbert III (golf): After an outstanding prep career at Tyner, the current Ooltewah resident played collegiate golf at Tennessee and won the Tennessee Amateur Championship in 1988. He later played four years on the Nationwide Tour with two third-place finishes in 1999, and in December 2015 he became only the second Chattanoogan to qualify for the PGA Champions Tour when he earned conditional status with a seventh-place finish in qualifying. The other Chattanoogan on the Champions was Gilbert's father, Gibby II. The younger Gilbert won four times on the Sunbelt Senior Tour the past four years and was its leading money winner in 2015, with two tournament victories. He also was the top money winner in 2006 on the U.S. Pro Golf Tour, including a five-stroke victory worth $180,000 at its tour championship in Las Vegas.
* Deborah Herring Grissett (tennis): Now living in Jacksonville, Fla., the former Baylor School and College of William and Mary player was a tennis standout from an early age, being nationally ranked in USTA 12s through 18s and holding the No. 1 spot in Tennessee in singles for five years and reaching No. 3 in the Southern Section to go with a No. 1 doubles ranking. She was on the state's Junior Wightman Cup teeam in 14s through 18s, won Chattanooga City Closed championships in all age divisions from 10s to 18s and then in Open and was the first Tennessee player to win the high school state championship as a freshman. A three-time all-state player, she was a two-time Prince/HNSACA high school All-American and was in Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd" in August 1985. Her William and Mary team was ranked in the Division I top 25 all four years she played, with a high of No. 14, and she was on the school's first women's team to reach the NCAA team nationals. A four-time All-Colonial Athletic Association selection, she won two CAA individual singles titles and four in doubles. She had a career singles record of 62-28 and was 22-4 in doubles one season.
* Dorman Knowles (boxing): The longtime resident of Manchester, Tenn., played football and boxed for Red Bank High School before serving with U.S. Navy Air and flying off carriers from 1951 to 1955. Training under coach Marion Perkins, he was undefeated in Frye Institute and Golden Gloves tournaments at 148 pounds in 1950 and at 155 in 1951 and was unbeaten later in 1951 at the San Diego naval base. He also won the 165-pound championship at a national interscholastic tournament held at the University of Virginia. He helped run a boxing program in Manchester that sent a team to the Nashville Golden Gloves in 1969, and he has worked for the Manchester Housing Authority and the city's school system.
* Steve McDaniel (wrestling): Already a member of the Georgia chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, he is highly respected for his 37 years as a coach and his longtime involvement with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. An All-Tri-State linebacker and football team captain at Ringgold High, he coached there from 1976 to 1999 and then 12 years at Gordon Lee after a year at Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe. His teams had 25 top-10 Georgia finishes with 30 individual state champions, eight of those winning multiple titles. Both Ringgold's and Gordon Lee's first state champs were accompanied by two others the same night. McDaniel is a co-founder and director of Future Champions Inc., which started compartmentalized youth wrestling tournament, and has been a regional and national duals tournament director for ages K-12.
* Tom Mullady (football): Now living in Germantown, Tenn., not far from his college alma mater in Memphis, the former McCallie School honorable-mention all-city player became a three-time all-conference selection at Rhodes and its football MVP in 1978 and then was drafted from the NCAA Division III school to play tight end in the NFL. Picked in the seventh round by the Buffalo Bills, he wound up with the New York Giants and was a three-year starter for them. He made contributions for playoff teams from 1981 to 1984 and was the Giants' receptions leader in 1982. Rhodes College retired his jersey in 1979.
* Antonio Parris (basketball): Kirkman Tech's most valuable basketball player as a 10th-grader, when he led the team to the state tournament, he went from stardom for the Golden Hawks to a standout college career at Eastern Kentucky. Playing for the Colonels from 1983 to 1987, Parris scored in double figures in all 26 games his first season, earned All-America honorable mention from The Sporting News as both a freshman and a senior, scored 1,723 points in 102 career games (third most in EKU history) and set several Ohio Valley Conference records. He signed free-agent NBA deals with the Boston Celtics and the Indiana Pacers.
* David Paschall (media): The Baylor School and Auburn University graduate has been a youth coach, most notably successful in the Chattanoooga Area Swim League, but he is best known for his prolific reporting for the Chattanooga Times Free Press and more recently as co-host for the "Press Row" radio show on Chattanooga ESPN station 105.1. He has covered Southeastern Conference football for the newspaper for 26 years - among many other responsibilities such as the Chattanooga Lookouts, the FCS national championship game and the SEC women's and Southern Conference basketball tournaments when they were hosted by the city - and he has served on the Heisman Trophy voting board since 2003. From 2006 to 2013 he also voted in the Harris Poll, helping decide the two teams playing for the BCS national title, and he has been an analyst on the "Classic Rewind" football series since the launch of the SEC Network in August 2014.
* Mose Payne III (officials/administrators, deceased): After playing varsity tennis and basketball for the University of Chattanooga in the 1950s, he coached basketball at J.B. Brown Junior High (now Brown Middle) in the 1960s, was the lower school baseball and basketball coach and varsity golf coach at Baylor in the 1970s and 1980s and was the varsity tennis coach at Baylor from 1978 to 1982 with a 59-2 dual-match record, four Rotary team titles in those five years, five district and five region championships and state titles in 1979 and 1982. He coached multiple players who went on to various levels of NCAA competition. But he also was a high school football official and a high school and college basketball official from the 1960s into the 1980s, working four TSSAA football state finals and one basketball state tournament, and served as a supervisor of basketball officials for the TSSAA for seven years. He was a "neutral observer" of basketball officials for the Southern Conference for over a decade.
* Elaine Peigen (special category): The Hixson native and 1978 Hixson High School graduate was on fastpitch softball summer teams that went to national tournaments, but she is being inducted for her volleyball achievements. She played volleyball for UTC from 1980 to 1982 and has been teaching and coaching in the Hamilton County system since 1989. Since taking over the Ooltewah High School program in 1993, she has an overall record of 730-296 with 13 district championships and nine region titles at the Class AAA level and seven final-four appearances in 11 trips to the state tournament. One of her Lady Owls teams was a state runner-up.
* Frank Reed (softball): The Central High School graduate was a successful youth fastpitch coach, guiding the Parker Eagles to ASA and NSA national championships the same year, when he started the Chattanooga State softball program as a part-time coach and then moved to UTC, where he is about to begin his 14th season. He has a 1,009-401 collegiate record, including 533-314 with the Mocs, and his UTC teams have won eight Southern Conference regular-season championships and eight SoCon tournaments. His 10 Chattanooga State teams were 476-87, including a 63-3 season, and also won eight league championships. His Eagles youth teams of various age groups went 458-77. In addition to his college duties, he served for four years as the hitting instructor for the Dominican Republic national team and was its head coach in 2006.
* Gary Stich (basketball): At 6-foot-7 he was the tallest part of the Louisville, Ky., pipeline that led UTC to the NCAA Division II national championship in 1977 after a runner-up finish in 1976. The former Louisville Trinity High School MVP was the Mocs' leading rebounder both of those seasons and was a key player even as a freshman when UTC was ranked as high as No. 3. Then in 1978 he was on the Finland national championship team, beginning a European professional career that lasted until he was 52 and scoring points in Swizerland League A. He helped win a Swiss League B championship when he was 50. One of his career highlights was playing in an official tournament with his son and both of them scoring points.
* Wayne Turner (football): After a two-time all-state football and two-time all-city basketball playing career at Kirkman Technical High School, he played football four years at Southern Mississippi and then embarked on his coaching career at Kirkman. He was an assistant football coach there from 1976 to 1987 and the head coach then until the school's closing in 1990, while serving as head baseball coach from 1977 to 1990 and head wrestling coach from 1984 until 1990. Then he succeeded Carey Henley as Tyner's head football coach in 1991 and has taken the Rams to the state playoffs in 23 of 25 seasons, with a TSSAA runner-up finish in 1996 and a state championship in 1997. From 1992 to 2013 they were region champs 11 times and runners-up nine times. His career football record is 214-85. Turner also has been Tyner's athletic director since 1995 and was its head wrestling coach a total of 14 years and the head baseball coach seven years, most recently in 2003.