Adilyn WadleyDerek Waugh was announced Friday as the president and CEO of the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame.
He announced his resignation on April 1 as athletic director at Dalton State College to head “a statewide organization in athletics” beginning July 1, and the college announced this past week a search committee for a new AD. A committee of high-profile Georgians, including Hall of Famers Jeff Van Note, Lucious Sanford, Ray Goff and Bill Ploeger, picked Waugh for his new position. He grew up in Atlanta, where he was a multisport standout at Marist High School before going on to an All-Southern Conference basketball career at Furman and law school at Wake Forest. He worked in Atlanta as an attorney for a year and then returned to college sports as basketball coach and then assistant AD at Stetson before returning to his native state in 2012 start DSC’s sports program. “We had an outstanding pool of candidates,” Hall of Fame Authority chair Emily Parker Myers said in the hall’s national search. “What we saw in Derek was a leader who has a passion for sports in our state and also a great enthusiasm for taking the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame to new heights.”
* UTC vice chancellor and athletic director David Blackburn will be the guest speaker for the last Chattanooga Quarterback Club luncheon meeting of the 2015-16 school year Monday at noon at Finley Stadium, and the public is invited. Attendance costs $10 with a meal, $4 without.
Lacrosse
* Lee University selected Adilyn Wadley as its first coach for women’s lacrosse.