Barbara is in her seventh season at USC. In 1996, under her direction USC Women of Troy won their 1st ever Pacific 10 Conference Championship and beat 10 time defending NCAA champion LSU in a dual meet on their way to a 14th place showing at the NCAA Outdoor Championship.

She is the wife of UCLA Sprint great Warren Edmonson, one daughter, Malika currently a freshman on Women of Troy squad.

*Graduated  from Cathedral Latin High School in   Cleveland, Ohio in 1958.

*Graduated from Villanova University with B.S. degree in Business Administration in 1962.

*Two-time All-American in the 200 meters at Villanova University.

*Broke and tied the world record in the 200 meters.  Tied the world record on three different occasions in the 100 yard-dash.

*Gold and Silver Medalist at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.  Member of the 1964 Olympic 400 Meter Champion Team.

*Broke world record in the 200 meter at the Inner Service Championship competition.

*Russian 1963 American 200 meter champion.

*Diplomatic 55 day tour of South America Countries to foster relations between Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Argentina.

*Numerous awards for track and field accomplishments.

Paul has been with the City of Cleveland, Ohio for over 20 years as Deputy Project Director, Division of Recreation and now resides in University Heights, a suburb of Cleveland.

A former director of community affairs for the Atlanta Hawks he maintained the organization's visibility in the community.

Pender has worked as athletic administrator for the NFL Players Association youth development program.  Pender worked as the national coordinator for the man power training program of Job Corps.  His Manpower Development Division placed first out of six regions, for seven years.

Pender serves on the board of directors of the United States Sports.  Academy, the Sickle Cell  Foundation, The inner City Games, and the Hank Aaron Rookie League.  he is a member of the 100 Black men of Dekalb County.  He is a member of the Leadership Atlanta Class of 1998, inducted into Georgia State Sports Hall of Fame, The National Black Hall of Fame, the 100% Wrong Club Hall of Fame.  He has also been involved with Georgia special Olympics, appointed by the governor of Georgia Commission for National and Community Service.

Retired as a captain from the U.S. Army after 21 years if service, earned a bronze star for his service in Vietnam and also served as  the U.S. Military Academy's head track coach.

He currently holds world records in the 50 and 60 yard dash and once held world records in the 70 and 100 yard dashes and the 100 meter dash also competed in the 1964 Olympics and won a gold medal in the 4x400 meter relay at the 1968 Olympics.

Chandra Cheeseborough
Induction - March -2000

Cheeseborough was serving as a physical education teacher and track and cross country coach in the Duval County (Florida) School System. She won two gold medals and one silver medal in the 1984 Olympics. She also become the first female to win gold medals as a member of both relay teams (4x100m and 4x400m) in the same Olympics. Her silver medal came in the 400m dash. She received her bachelor's degree in 1982 from Tennessee State University, where she was a member of the world-renowned Tigerbelles. The three-time Olympian (1976, 1980 and 1984) has been named to the TSU Sports Hall of Fame and Florida Track Hall of Fame.

A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Cheeseborough was born on January 10, 1959. She attended the summer track program at TSU as a junior and senior at Jacksonville's Ribault High School. At the age of 16 Chandra emerged as a track force by winning a gold medal in the 200 meters in record-setting time at the 1975 Pan-American Games in Mexico City. She placed second in the 100 and 200 meters in the USA Olympic Trials at Eugene, Oregon, in 1976, which won her a spot on the Olympic team. She finished sixth in the 100 meters in the Olympics that year held in Montreal, Canada. She also qualified for the ill-fated 1980 Olympic team in the 100 meter and 200 meter sprints.

A standout Tigerbelle in the '70's and '80's, Cheeseborough now coaches the Tennessee State University women's track team, the Tigerbelles, carrying the torch of her predecessor, Ed Temple.

James Day,
Meet Director/Developer
Induction- March -2001

Day is a 1951 graduate of Florida Memorial College. In 1976, he received a masters degree in Education from Florida A. & M. University.

Day spent 40 years as a coach and physical education teacher in the Duval County School System. From 1956-64, he was track and field coach at Matthew Gilbert High School. From 1965-97, Day was athletic director and track and field coach at William M. Raines High School.

At Raines is where Day established his reputation as a winner. He earned numerous awards and accolades while compiling a 612-82-9 record. Day coached the Vikings to three state championships, five runner-up finishes, 37 regional championships and 40 district championships. He was named track coach of the year 10 times by the Bob Hayes Committee and eight time by the Florida Times-Union and Jacksonville Journal.

In addition, Day named coach of the year by the Jacksonville Track Club (1976), Florida Athletic Coaches Association (1976) and the Florida A&M University Boosters (1975-77).

The biggest honor came when Day was selected National High School Track Coach of the Year (1989).

The list of accomplishment continues. They include: being selected the first African-American president of the Florida Athletic Coaches Association (1989); induction to the University of Florida Track and Field Hall of Fame (1985), induction to the Florida Athletic Coaches Hall of Fame (1987), awarded the Jasper Award by the Florida Sports (1999), induction to the Bob Hayes Hall of Fame (2001) and induction to the Raines High Booster Athletic Hall of Fame (2001).

Day has influenced the lives of more than 25 professional athletes. Among a few: Kenneth Burroughs, a state champion sprinter who played for the Houston Oilers; Randy Allen, a long jumper who played for the Green Bay Packers; Harold Carmichael, a shot putter who played for the Philadelphia Eagles; Greg Coleman, a state champion hurdler who played for the Minnesota Vikings and Terry LeCount, a state champion sprinter who played for the Minnesota Vikings.

The Coaching legend has also been honored more than 250 time for his numerous community endeavors.

Coach Day is presently Athletic Director and Special Assistant to the President at Edward Waters College of Jacksonville, one of the oldest traditionally black religious private colleges. He has also played an instrumental role in the return of football to Edward Waters College after 35 years and continues to work tireless to expand the Athletic Program.

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Hayes taught school in Detroit, but left his past when he was appointed by Mayor Jerome P. Cavanaugh to the Youth Employment Project, a program organized to train high school graduates in employable skills. As a result of Jones' commitment to this position, hundreds of young adults received job training and job placement in local corporation.

American Airlines as a sales representative in 1964.

1968 - Major John V. Lindsay's appointment as New York first Recreation Commissioner. He returned to American in 1970 as Assistant to the Senior Vice President for Marketing.

Mr. Jones is a seven-year veteran with The Stroh Brewery Company, where he served as the Director of Marketing for the Black and Hispanic consumers.

He is a former school board member for the Pontiac School District.

Former board Chair of the Pontiac Chamber of Commerce

Former Economic Development Committee Chairman for the Oakland County Business Roundtable, and the Pontiac Area Urban League.

Chairman of the Volunteer Committee of the Arts League of Michigan.

In 1991, Mr. Jones organized a track and field program in Pontiac, Michigan called "The Junior Olympics" for students attending middle school.

Lee Evans has an inspirational story of his rise from poverty, picking cotton and grapes as a sharecopper in Central California to international fame as an athlete and coach.

Lee's approach to coaching and life is to visualize a goal and stay focused on the steps needed to achieve it.  He has a delightful sense of human and is an excellent motivational speaker.  

Lee was featured in and HBO special "Fists of Freedom" about the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.

1967 - sophomore year at Churchill High School set a state record in the 100-yard dash in the time of 10.4 and the 200 yard dash in the time of 24.8.

1968 - as a junior, set the all-time state high school girl's record in the 100 meters and 200 meters with times of 11.3 and 23.8 seconds respectively, which still stands today.

During the National AAU Women's Track & Field Championships, at the age of 17, she tied the world record in the 100 meters timed at 11.1 and the 200 meters, winning with the time of 23. second.

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Margaret ran the second leg on the Gold Medal and Word Record setting 4x100 meter relay team timed at 42.8 and placed 5th in the 100 meters and seventh in the 200 meter. She retired right after the Olympics and moved to Oakland, California.

July 1984-1986 Margaret moved back to her hometown Eugene, Oregon, to coach the Churchill High School track team sprint and long jump.

July 12, 1990, Margaret was honored as the most Decorated African American Female in the state of Oregon.

August 10, 1991, Margaret was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame.

February 2, 2001, Margaret was inducted into the Winston Churchill High School Sports Hall of Fame in Eugene, Oregon.

She currently is working in the San Francisco bay area at a BioTech Companyas a Sales Administrator.

Netter won All-SWAC and All-NAIA honors three times between 1968 and 1972. She held the third best 100 meter time in the world in 1968. Additionally, she was a member of the AAU international Team, which competed in Norway and Poland in 1968 and 1969, and she was a part of the US European Track and Field tour between 1969-70.

The outstanding feats of "Midge" led to her selection as "Female of the Year" by the 100% Wrong Club of Atlanta in 1969. Also that year, she was named the outstanding athlete of the AAU region and she was invited to participate in the dedication of RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C.

The mother of two children, Netter was inducted into the Alcorn State Hall of Honor in 1992 and the SWAC Hall of Fame in 1995. She was also selected as a Torchbearer in the 1996 Olympics Torch Relay. Her tenure as a high school coach in Mississippi has landed her numerous accolades: Including selection as Delta Valley Conferences track and field coach of the year in 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, and 1979. In 1979, she was also named the US Southeast Region High School coach of the year.

Best Performance: Long Jump - 27' 4 3/4" (8.35m)- World Record

Born in Laurel, Mississippi, Ralph Boston went on to become a versatile track and field athlete, achieving national ranking in the hurdles, high jump and triple jump. In additional to his successive accomplishments in the 1960. '64, '68 Olympic Games, he won the National AAU outdoor long jump event from 1960-66, and while a student at his alma mater, Tennessee State University, He won the NCAA outdoor long jump title in 1960. Today, Ralph is Director, Customer Relations with Ericsson, Inc. in Atlanta Georgia. He continues to remain active in community services and is one of 8 current and former US athletes assigned to raise the Olympic Flag during opening ceremonies of the recently completed 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

1997 -1998 Inducted into Who's Who of Teachers in America (Secondary School) Honor Society.

Vice-President of Special Projects, Aware, Inc.: facilitates marketing of African-American history calendars and educational products, produced by IOKTS Productions.

Summer Track Training Program: developing future scholarship athletes under the auspices with the USA Track and Field Association (USAFT) and the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU).

B.A, , History, Grambling State University, 1967.

Graduated Cum Laude.

M.A., Howard University in Student Personnel Administration, 1972.

Teaching Certificate for State of Maryland, 1995.

1975-78, Coordinator of Athletic recruitment and Promotions, Howard University. Director of Recruitment and Assistant Football Coach, (Coached and recruited present Howard University football coach). Coordinated the Howard University participation in the Opportunity Industrial Cooperation (OIC) annual football classic. Which generated approximately $250,000 in revenue.

1989 - Present, Teacher 6th Grade, Social Studies and World Geography, Mayfield Woods Middle School, Howard County Unified School System.

Created an innovative Olympic system for evaluation and assessment which resulted in individuals achieving national standing in who's who National Merit Scholars.

Occupation:     
Retired Educator, 35 years in                           Public School System
Coordinator and Director  of United  Community Outreach

Family:
Wife, Ira B. Washington; son, Nathaniel Washington, Jr.; daughter, Patti N. Washington       

Education:
Diploma. Stanton High School,  Jacksonville, Florida

Undergraduate:  
Bachelor of Science Degree from  Florida Memorial College, St. Augustine, Florida with major in Physical Education

Graduate:
Master of Education Degree in Education - New York University

Organizations:
Jacksonville Children Commission, Governor's Appointee State of Florida Long Term Care, Ombudsman Council Exp. 1999(2nd term), National President of Florida Memorial College Alumni Association, One on One Tutor for the State Attorney's office, Deacon, Bethel Baptist Institutional Church,  Past President of Nu Beta Sigma Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Member of Jacksonville Sports Hall of Fame and Member of 100 Black Men Association of Jacksonville.

Professional Experience:
Athletic Director, Head Coach and Physical Education Teacher, Douglas High School, Active Dean of Boys, Athletic Director, Northwestern Jr. High School, Dean of Boys, Ribault Jr. High School, Assistant Principal, Eugene J. Butler, Vice Principal, Landon Jr. High School and Owner/Operator of Patti's Daddy's Quick Stop.

Awards:
Florida Time Union Coach of the Year Awards (Football), 1961-63. Northeast Conference Coach of the Year Award, 1959-61 and 63, Phi Beta Sigma Award, President's Fountain of Excellence Award, Delta Sigma Theta Winona Cargile Alexander Community b Service Award, WJXT Good For You Community Service Aeard and J.M. Families African American Achiever's Award (Education Division) 1966.