McGee in inaugural class for NIAAA Hall Of Fame

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INDIANAPOLIS - North Carolina's Jerry McGee has received another prestigious honor.

The National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association will induct its inaugural Hall of Fame class on Dec. 15 at the Gaylord Texan Hotel and Conference Center in Grapevine, Texas, and McGee will be one of the charter members of the Hall.

The induction banquet will be held in conjunction with the National Conference for Directors of Athletics and the NIAAA's annual meetings.

The first ceremony will induct a class of 12 individuals whose careers in athletic administration collectively total 350 years. Besides McGee, the class inductees include Alice Barron, Lakewood, Colorado; Lindy Callahan, Gulfport, Mississippi; Robert Conklin, Denver, Colorado; Evan Excell, South Jordan, Utah; Roland Inskeep, CMAA, Carmel, Indiana; David Martens, Fairport, New York; Theodore Miller, CAA, Show Low, Arizona; Dr. Lucia Norwood, CMAA, Stone Mountain, Georgia; James, Teff, CMAA, Lodi, Wisconsin; James Watkins, CMAA, Louisville, Ky; and John Youngblood (deceased), Centreville, Va.

McGee retired from school athletic administration in 1997 having served 24 years as an athletic administrator. He is currently the executive director of the North Carolina Athletic Directors' Association and has also enjoyed an outstanding career in coaching.

A 1961 graduate of Duke University, McGee was successful at both the high school and college football coaching levels. He was head coach and athletic director at Edenton Holmes (1962-66) and at Elizabeth City Northeastern (1976-81), sandwiched around collegiate stints at Kansas State, Southern Illinois, East Carolina and Duke (for 10 years, from 1971 through '81). He was the director of athletics and physical education for
the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools from 1981 until his retirement in '97.

McGee was the visionary for the formation of the National Executive Directors' Council (NEDC) in 2002, a council for state athletic director association executive directors He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the NCHSAA and has received numerous awards, including induction into the NCADA Hall of Fame in '98 and a Distinguished Service Award from the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association in '98. He was inducted into the NCHSAA Hall of Fame in 1999 and into the National High School Hall of Fame in 2008.

The National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association is an organization for high school and middle school athletic administrators dedicated to providing interscholastic athletic administrators the professional development, resources and support that will assist in providing quality participation opportunities for high school and middle school students.

Membership includes over 8,000 interscholastic athletic administrators as well as the 51 state athletic administrator associations.