2023 Hall of Fame Inductee, Carl B. Jackson. Jackson P. Burley High School – Charlottesville, VA


2023 Hall of Fame Inductee, Eric R. “Duke” McCaskill, Sr.
Huntington High School -
Newport News, Virginia


2023 Hall of Fame Inductee, Alvin Puryear, PhD.
George P. Phenix High School –
Hampton, Virginia


2023 Hall of Fame Inductee, Doug Smith
George P. Phenix High School –
Hampton, Virginia


2023 Hall of Fame Inductee, Walter “Rock” Greene
Jackson P. Burley High School – Charlottesville, Virginia


2023 Hall of Fame Inductee, Thomas Hooker.
Southside High School –
Dinwiddie, Virginia

2023 Hall of Fame Inductee, Louis Johnson.
Parker-Gray High School –
Alexandria, Virginia

2023 Hall of Fame Inductee, Mary Winston Jackson.
George P. Phenix High School –
Hampton, Virginia

2023 Hall of Fame Inductee, Frank Smith.
Armstrong High School –
Richmond, Virginia

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Carl B. Jackson, Jackson P. Burley High School –Charlottesville, VA

Carl B. Jackson is a Charlottesville native and a 1956 graduate of Jackson P. Burley High School. Carl began playing with the Bur [...]

Eric R. “Duke” McCaskill, Sr, Huntington High School, Newport News, Virginia

Eric R. “Duke” McCaskill is a native of the East End of Newport News, Virginia. He attended the all black Huntington High Sch [...]

Alvin N. Puryear, George P. Phenix High School – Hampton, Virginia

Alvin N. Puryear, PhD. was a University educator, church, civic and community leader, and a distinguished alumni leader at Yale U [...]

Douglas M. Smith, George P. Phenix High School – Hampton, Virginia

Douglas Smith is a native of Hampton, Virginia. He attended George P. Phenix High School from 1957 – 1960. At Phenix, he was kn [...]

Walter “Rock” Greene, Jackson P. Burley High School – Charlottesville, Virginia

Walter “Rock” Greene was an incredible coach, mentor, and teacher at Jackson P. Burley High School in Charlottesville, Virgin [...]

Thomas Hooker, Southside High School – Dinwiddie, Virginia

Thomas Hooker was born in Raleigh, North Carolina as the youngest of seven children to Nathaniel Hooker Sr., and Della Hooker. Th [...]

Louis Johnson, Parker-Gray High School – Alexandria, Virginia

Louis Johnson was born in Lynchburg, Virginia and grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he attended Jefferson High School. [...]

Mary Winston Jackson, George P. Phenix High School – Hampton, Virginia

Mary Winston Jackson was born on April 21, 1921 in Hampton, Virginia. She grew up in Hampton where she was an honor graduate of G [...]

Frank J. Smith, Armstrong High School – Richmond, Virginia

Frank J. Smith grew up in Richmond, Virginia where he attended Armstrong High School. At Armstrong, he played four years of footb [...]

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