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2010 North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame Inductees

The seven men and women to be inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame May 13, 2010 excelled in football, field hockey, soccer and golf.

         They are:

• Herb Appenzeller, a Wake Forest Football player in the 1940s and long-time athletic director at Guilford College;

• Jim Donnan, a highly successful football coach at the University of Georgia and former quarterback for N.C. State University;

• Don McCauley, an All America running back at the University of North Carolina and Baltimore Colts pro bowler;

• Carla Overbeck, a three-time All America soccer star at UNC-CH who now coaches at Duke University;

• Mike Quick, an outstanding receiver at N.C. State and top draft choice of the Philadelphia Eagles;

• Karen Shelton, whose UNC-CH field hockey teams have won seven national titles;

• Paul Simson, one of the state’s most accomplished amateur golfers with two British Amateur Senior Open championships among his victories.

"This year's inductees into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame represent an array of athletic talent that would make any state proud," said Nat Walker, president of the Hall. "Their achievements enrich an already outstanding sports heritage represented by the 266 Hall of Fame members previously enshrined."

They will be inducted at the 47th annual banquet on the evening of May 13 in the main ballroom of the North Raleigh Hilton Hotel. The seven inductees will be introduced at an afternoon news conference on May 12 at the North Carolina Museum of History, home of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. Banquet ticket information is available from www.ncshof.org or by dialing (919) 845-3455.
 
The state's sports Hall of Fame was established in 1963 and its exhibits are located on the third floor of the history museum on Jones Street in downtown Raleigh. The permanent exhibits feature significant artifacts donated by all of the inductees. The museum is open Monday through Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
 
Following is a brief biography of each of the 2010 inductees:

Dr. Herb Appenzeller played football at Wake Forest and was a member of the 1946 team that appeared in, and won, the first-ever Gator Bowl game. He drew high school coaching assignments in North Carolina soon after his Wake Forest career, then moved on to Chowan College for a time before embarking on a 31-year career as a coach, teacher and athletic director at Guilford College. As AD, Appenzeller administered a program that included a host of sports.  Though the school’s enrollment was usually at only about 1,000, sports in his program won three national championships and 31 conference titles. He is a member of the National Association of Collegiate Athletic Directors and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Halls of Fame. In retirement, he has continued to teach and has become a nationally recognized expert on sports law. He is the author of more than 20 books, most of them dealing with sports law and risk management.

Jim Donnan, a South Carolina native who grew up in Burlington, used to challenge anyone to name their game and he would beat them at it. And he came close. A 2009 inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame, Donnan was the head coach at both Marshall and Georgia with a combined record of 104-40-0. He won a national championship at Marshall and three times finished second. He also was an offensive assistant at Oklahoma, Kansas State, Missouri and Florida State and once quarterbacked N.C. State to the first bowl victory the Wolfpack ever had. Donnan never lost a bowl game as either a player or coach. He was so skilled at tennis that he and State teammate Sanji Arisawa won the state doubles title in 1970 after finishing second the year earlier. So upset at the age of six at being ejected from a ping pong table by older boys, Donnan vowed to master the game and won the state table tennis title 10 years in a row before he was 18. He also won a yo-yo championship. He now is a motivational speaker and college football analyst on television.

Don McCauley is the third Carolina player to be enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame (the other two are Art Weiner and Charlie “Choo Choo” Justice) and his selection was no fluke. In his senior season, 1970, McCauley rushed for a dazzling 1,720 yards and scored 21 touchdown, shattering O.J. Simpson’s college rushing record in the process. It was an ACC record that stood for 19 years. He also led the nation in all-purpose running that year. Don was twice named ACC Player of the Year, became a first-round draft choice and played 11 seasons for the Baltimore Colts. When he retired in 1982, McCauley had more than 5,600 yards rushing and had scored 58 professional touchdowns. Today McCauley is a fund-raiser in the athletic department of his alma mater.
           
Carla Overbeck, played her collegiate soccer at UNC where she was on four NCAA champions and was a three-time All-America. During her four-years as a Tar Heel UNC was undefeated. She was a founding member of the Raleigh Wings of the defunct WUSA. Overbeck has been assistant coach at Duke for 13 years. She was inducted into National Soccer Hall of Fame in August.

Mike Quick, a Hamlet native, ranks among all-time N.C. State football receivers. In his three-year career from 1978-81 had 1,900 yards with 116 catches and 10 touchdowns. He was top draft choice by the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles and led league in receiving yards in 1983 and 1985.  Quick was named to the  NFL Pro Bowl five times. From 1983-87 he caught more TD passes than any other receiver in the league.

Karen Shelton has been field hockey coach at the University of North  Carolina since 1981.  During that time, UNC has won 17 ACC titles, appeared in 24 NCAA tournaments and won NCAA championships in 1989, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2007 and 2009.  Shelton has been named ACC Coach of the Year eight times, most recently in 2007.  She was a world-class player for three-time AIAW champions West Chester State and played for the United States from 1978-84.  She was a member of the U.S. bronze-medal team in the 1984 Olympics and is a member of the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame. 

Paul Simson is an amateur golfer from Raleigh who won 2007 British Senior Open Amateur Championship then stunned the senior world by winning the British crown again in 2009. He won two Carolinas Amateur Championships (1991, 2005) and was named CGA Player of Year in 2005. He has also won 4 Carolinas Mid-Amateurs, one Father-Son, five North Carolina Amateurs and one Mid-Amateur. He won North-South Amateur titles in Pinehurst (1995 and ’96). He has won 16 major CGA championships, including the 2007 Carolinas Senior Amateur Championship in September. He is considered one of the Carolinas premier senior golfers worldwide.

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