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2018 NC Sports Hall of Fame Class announced

PRE News & Ideas | By George Olsen
Published January 10, 2018 at 8:36 AM EST

The North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame has announced their 2018 inductees.

The 2018 class will bring 15 new members to the Sports Hall located at the Museum of History in Raleigh. Among the inductees are Joey Cheek, a Greensboro native who won three Olympic medals in speed skating during the 2002 and 2006 Winter Games. Also named was Joe West, born in Asheville and a Rose High in Greenville graduate. West is the longest tenured umpire currently working in Major League Baseball with over 40 seasons. The late Paul Jones will also be honored. Jones is an East Carolina University graduate who spent 38 seasons coaching basketball at Kinston High School between 1957 and 1995, winning 662 games and two state titles. The induction ceremony will take place May 4 at the Raleigh Convention Center.

The complete Sports Hall of Fame 2018 inductees:

DONNA ANDREWS

SCOTT BANKHEAD

HAL “SKINNY” BROWN

CHRIS CAMMACK

JOEY CHEEK

WES CHESSON

LAURA DUPONT

MINDY BALLOU FITZPATRICK

BILL HAYES

JACK HOLLEY

PAUL JONES

MIKE MARTIN

FRANK “JAKIE” MAY

JOE WEST

FRED WHITFIELD
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George Olsen
George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.
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