Page is set to announce its 2025 Athletics Hall of Fame class during its Friday home football game against Southern Guilford.
The class features former Pirates football coach Kevin Gillespie, who led Page gridiron squads to a state championship in 2011 and state runner-up finishes in 2015 and 2016, tennis legend Catherine Newman, dual-sport star Dick Curran, girls basketball star Bonita Williams and prolific soccer scorer Sheri Clark Chamberlin.
This marks the hall’s fifth induction class.
Sheri Clark ChamberlinThe girls soccer standout played a key role at forward from 1982-1984. Her former Pirates teammate Mary Park Rogers described Clark as a fast player, who saw the field well and played aggressively in a positive way. According to Page yearbooks, she was an all-conference selection in 1982 and one of seven sophomore starters on that year’s squad for a team that finished 9-5-1. In 1983, she was an all-conference selection again, scoring a record-breaking 28 goals for a team that went 11-2-1 and captured a conference championship at 8-1-1, despite three players suffering broken legs and five suffering fractured and sprained legs and ankles. The 1983 team famously snapped Grimsley’s 44-game winning streak. Clark played for North Carolina coach Anson Dorrance on select state and regional teams. She coached the Page JV girls team in 1989.
Robert “Dick” CurranFor Page’s end-of-year sports awards in 1969, he was named most athletic, football MVP, boys basketball MVP and football best defensive player and went on to play both basketball and football at NC State. The 6-foot-6, 215-pounder was called “the most rugged rebounder in the area” when named to the 1969 all-city boys basketball team. That year, he averaged 17.6 points and 19.1 rebounds, with 38 points and 34 rebounds in one game against Dudley and a 36-point performance in a meeting with Grimsley. He led Page to a second-place finish in the Central 4A that year behind only Bob McAdoo and Smith. He and McAdoo were the only locals named to the Greensboro Daily News’ 1969 all-state team. He was also named all-city for football in 1967 and 1968 at defensive line. In 1968, he was also all-city in basketball, averaging 12.5 points per game.
Kevin GillespieThe coach turned around a Pirates program that went winless in 2004 and went 4-7 in 2005, going 101-45 from 2006-2016 in an 11-season tenure that included an undefeated 15-0 state championship in 2011 and state runner-up finishes in 2015 and 2016. His 2011 NCHSAA 4AA state champions, featuring All-Area Player of the Year James Summers, were the first Pirates team to make a state finals appearance since 1985 and finished No. 21 in the USA Today Super 25 national rankings.
Catherine NewmanThe tennis star was a four-time Metro 4A Conference Player of the Year and went undefeated for the Lady Pirates, who won NCHSAA 4A dual-team state championships in 2004 and 2005 with her as the No. 1 player. The highly-ranked player won the 16s national championship in 2004 and ranked as high as No. 1 in the USTA 18s, prior to a college career at Vanderbilt in which she was a four-time All-SEC selection and was described as having “concluded career as one of the most accomplished players athletically and academically in school history.” Newman, who was Page’s 2006 valedictorian, was the first Vanderbilt player to receive the national ITA/Arthur Ashe Award for Leadership and Sportsmanship and was named 2010 SEC Women’s Scholar Athlete of the Year. Her Vandy singles record was 106-51. She was also a star on Page’s soccer teams, earning all-state as a midfielder.
Bonita WilliamsThe trailblazing girls basketball star could do it all and could shoot from anywhere. The 5-foot-10 forward was named All-Metro Player of the Year as a sophomore in 1980 after averaging 21.9 points on 59% field goal shooting and 11.1 rebounds in leading the Lady Pirates to a 17-4 record. As a junior, she was runner-up for the Metro Player of the Year honor to Smith’s Cathy Jones, after averaging 19.9 points, 10 rebounds and four assists on a more balanced Page team that went 19-4 and reached the state semifinals. She was highly-recruited prior to a season-ending torn Achilles tendon, suffered in her first game as a senior, dropping her stock but started as a true freshman at North Carolina A&T as a walk-on in 1982.
Bryant.roche@greensboro.com
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