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(1990)
Shelby State Community
College Robert F. “Bob” Canada... Memphis, Tennessee. Born in Lexington, Tennessee and a 1959 graduate of Parsons High School. He served in the U.S. Army and is a graduate of Army Intelligence School. Canada earned two degrees from Memphis State University -- a B.S. in 1968 and a M. Ed. in 1973. During the period of 1963 - 70, he was Playground Director, Community Center Director, District Supervisor of Playgrounds and Supervisor of Boy’s Athletics for the Memphis Park Commission. Following one year as Superintendent of Recreation for the Tuscaloosa, Alabama, County Park and Recreation Authority, Canada served as Program Director and then Executive Director of the Mason-East YMCA in Memphis for four years. He holds certification as a Senior Director with the YMCA. In 1977 he became Athletic Director and Golf Coach as well as an Associate Professor of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at Shelby State Community College. Canada was HPER department head 1977-80. He was also SSCC’s Tennis Coach during the 1978 and 1979 seasons and his teams won both state and regional honors while qualifying for the NJCAA tournament. In 1986, his duties were expanded and his title changed to Director of Student Organizations and Activities/Athletics. Under Canada’s leadership, Shelby State’s total intercollegiate athletic program has gained much local, regional and national attention. During his 12-year tenure, Shelby State’s teams have posted an impressive winning record. His golfers have won nine consecutive NJCAA Region VII titles and have competed in the same number of national tournaments while Canada personally won regional “Coach of the Year” honors each year since 1979. Four of his golfers have been selected for All-American honors and several of his young men have turned professional. Many of his golfers were awarded scholarships at four-year colleges and universities to complete their education. Canada has served as President of the Tennessee Junior and Community College Athletic Association, Chairman of the Athletic Directors Committee and Golf Chairman. He has directed several state and regional tournaments. He was general chairman of the 1979, 1981 and 1983 Mickey Mantle World Series and served on the executive committee of the Epilepsy Foundation of West Tennessee and the board of directors of the Memphis YMCA Youth Sports. Coach Canada is presently serving as a Coordinator in the Center for Life-long Education at Oral Roberts University, where his duties include directing The Continuing Education program as well as Summer School. Bob has a son, Mike, 20 who is also at Oral Roberts University as the Sports Information Director. 1991 - 1992 - Golf Coach at Oral Roberts University. PRESENTER: Jack Martin, Jackson State Community College Footnote: Golf Coach at Oral Roberts University In Tulsa, Oklahoma. (1991)
Junior College/Community
College
Jack Martin, Jackson, Tennessee. Born in Warren County, Tennessee. Martin attended Northwest Mississippi Junior College for two years and received his Bachelors degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Masters degree from Middle Tennessee State University. In high school, Martin played both baseball and football. In football he was the runner-up for most valuable player in the Central Tennessee Conference both his junior and senior years. In junior college he received 2 letters as an outfielder in baseball and 2 in football as quarterback of the Northwest Mississippi team. Martin spent some 10 years in management with the Sears organization before getting involved in college athletics. During his year as a graduate assistant in baseball at Middle Tennessee State University the Blue Raiders under the leadership of Head Coach Jimmy Earle won the school's first Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Championship in 1968. Being associated with the program opened the door for Martin at Jackson State Community College where in his 1st year as Head Baseball Coach, his team was runner-up in the TJCAA. That same year his fellow coaches elected him Coach of the Year. In 9 years of coaching baseball at Jackson State Community College, Martin compiled a record of 201 wins and 89 loses for a winning percentage of 69%. Martin is now in his 23rd year at Jackson State and has been Director of Athletics for the past 15 years. During that time Jackson State Community College has qualified several teams for the state and regional tournaments in baseball and men’s and women’s basketball. The highlight was in 1982 when the women a basketball team won the state and region and finished 3rd in the national tournament under Coach Marvin Williams. Won another state championship and was regional runner-up the previous year. In 1988 under Coach Jim Swope the Jackson State women’s basketball team was runner-up in both the state and regional tournaments. In the early 80’s Martin added golf to the athletic program and was also coach the only two years in which JSCC competed in golf. During those two years Jackson State Community College was state and regional runner-up and qualified 2 players each year for the national tournament. During Martin’s 9 coaching years at JSCC he had 20 All-Western Division and All-Conference baseball players on his team. 2 of his players were All-Eastern District and one was All-American. 7 of his players signed professional baseball contracts. Martin has served on many committees through the years in the TJCCAA. Some of those were the Executive Committee, Chairman of the baseball committee and most recently a member of the committee to establish a permanent location for the TJCCAA Sports Hall of Fame. He maintains his membership in the American Baseball Coaches Association, the National Association of College Directors of Athletics and the National Alliance of 2 year College Director of Athletics. Martin and his wife Sue have two children, David of McMinnville and Kathy who resides with her husband Charlie Mueller in Jackson. David and his wife Elaine have two sons, David Jr., 11 and Matt, 7. Translated, this means Jack and Sue have two fantastic grandsons who love sports. (1992)
Junior College/Community
College A long and distinguished career has brought Coach Charles M. Anderson of Nashville’s Aquinas Junior College to this award. Coach Anderson attended Cohn High School and served in the U.S. Navy (1952-55). He then attended UT-Martin and MTSU, receiving his B.S. degree. He earned his M.A. from Georgia Peabody College of Education in 1959. Coach Anderson began coaching at Nashville Central High School as assistant basketball and football coach, and head baseball coach. He began a 14 year tenure at Stratford High School in 1961 as head coach in basketball and baseball, and assistant coach in football. He led a number of teams to the state playoffs. In 1975 he began a five-year stint with Bellevue High School as head coach of the basketball and tennis teams. Four of those five years saw Bellevue in the state playoffs. After retiring from Metro in 1981 his boys’ record stood at 391-110, and his girls’ record at 19-8. It was at Aquinas that Anderson built a basketball program to be envied by all. He averages 23 + wins per year at the junior college level. 1984-91 saw his victories increase: 22-11, 22-9, 24-7, 27-6, 29-5, 27-6, and 32-3. When 1990-91 season ended, Coach Anderson had brought the top prize home to Tennessee the National Junior College Athletic Association National Championship. Anderson is married to Beverly Ann Anderson. They have one son, Charles R. Anderson, who is head baseball coach and assistant basketball coach to his father at Aquinas. The 1990-91 basketball season brought a national championship trophy to Aquinas Junior College and Coach Charles Anderson. The championship included wins over Polk Community College, Fla. (68-62), Alvin Community College, Texas (88-70), Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (85-82), and Arizona Western (74-68) in the finals. By Aquinas winning the 1990-91 NJCAA championship, it marked the first time since 1974 that a team east of the Mississippi River had won the tournament. Aquinas also became the first team from Tennessee to ever claim the title. Coach Anderson was named Coach of the Tournament and also received the honor of being named the nation’s Junior College Coach of the Year for 1990-91.
INDUCTED INTO THE
TENNESSEE (1993)
Columbia State Community
College Jim Painter, born February 16, 1936 in Martinsville, Virginia, graduated from Martinsville High School in 1954, served in the U.S. Air Force from October 1954 until September 1958, attended Middle Tennessee State University and received a B.S. in 1962 and M.S. in 1963. Painter played four years of baseball and two years of football in high school. While at MTSU, he played four years of baseball. During his graduate year, he was graduate assistant coach in baseball. He also played three years of baseball while in the Air Force; his team finishing runner-up in the Air Force worldwide tournament in 1957. Following college, Painter taught one year in Murfreesboro. He then coached and taught one year at Tullahoma West Jr. High School. From August 1965 until December 1969, he coached and taught at Franklin County High School and Franklin County North Jr. High School. During this time he coached freshman and “B” team football and basketball and assisted in varsity football, basketball and baseball. The baseball team won the High School State Tournament in 1968. In January 1970 Coach Painter came to Columbia State Community College where he assisted Coach Dave Hall in baseball for three years (1970 - 71 - 72). He was named Head Baseball Coach in July 1972 and has remained in that job ever since. Starting in 1973, Columbia State has won seven State and Region VII titles in baseball and has gone on the National Tournament three times, finishing 3rd, 4th and 8th. The record during those 19 years (1973-1991) is 642 wins and 218 losses for a .747 winning percentage. Columbia State has won the Western Division 14 times, finished 2nd four times and finished 3rd one time, while compiling a divisional record of 330 wins and 88 losses for a .789 winning percentage. His teams have played in the State and Region VII Tournament 18 of 19 years. Coach Painter has been Coach or Co-Coach of the Year for the Western Division ten times and Coach or Co-Coach of the Year for the State six times. He has had 93 players named to All-Western Division, 64 named to All-Conference, 32 named to All-Region and 13 named to All-American. Coach Painter and his wife, Faye have four children - John, 28, (who works for the NCAA in Kansas City); Peggy, 26, (a teacher in Columbia); Sandra, 23, (who works for Delta Airlines and lives in Orlando, Fl); and Kim 22, (a student at MTSU). (1994)
Shelby State Community
College
Coach Verties Sails, Jr. graduated from Woodstock High School in Memphis, Tennessee in 1960. Coach Sails has a B.S. Degree from LeMoyne-Owens College, M.S. from Memphis State University and 30 additional hours beyond masters. Coach Sails is Athletic Director and Head Basketball Coach at Shelby State Community College with a record of 321-103. His overall coaching record is 453 wins and 138 Loses. Coach Sails has received Coach of the Year several times. Coach Sails from 1982-1987 was sports line host for WREG Radio Station, an hour long sports call-in show that reached Memphis, Shelby County, and Mississippi. In 1976-1982 he was sports page host for WLOK Radio, a 20 minute sports review show covering local, national and world wide sports. From 1961-1970 he was a recreation specialist with the Memphis Park Commission. He worked with the young people who came on the Memphis Parks on sports, games, story telling and craft. In 1973 he was Instructor and Men’s Basketball Coach at Melrose High School with a coaching record of 132-35. First Memphis team to win a State Championship. Record 35-0. From 1974-1979 he was assistant basketball coach at Memphis State University. COACHING RECORD Melrose High - Head Coach
Ron W. Carr, born December 5, 1938 in Union City, Tennessee. Carr graduated from Horace Maynard High School in 1957 and received his M.S. and B.S. from the University of Tennessee. Carr established the physical education department and intercollegiate athletics program at Walters State. Carr joined the Walters State staff in 1971, a year after the two-year college opened in Morristown. As the first physical education faculty member, he created the department, writing course descriptions, selecting textbooks, choosing library resource materials, ordering all equipment including gym bleachers and lockers, and coordinating the construction of the baseball field and tennis courts. He was named athletic director the following year, and hired the Senators first coach for men’s basketball and baseball — Bill Gardner. That year the college fielded intercollegiate teams in those sports, plus golf and tennis, on a $8,500 budget. Over the following 24 years under his direction, Walters State’s program consistently has been at the top of TJCCAA athletics. The men’s basketball program has been ranked among the top ten nationally twice during the 1990’s, and has won more than 20 games each season for the past 18 years; women’s basketball teams hold six Eastern Division championships, four state titles and one regional championship, and have won 32 consecutive conference home games. The baseball program established TJCCAA records in home runs and base hits per game and produced the nation’s leading home-run hitter for three consecutive years. Tennis and golf teams are traditional national tournament participants, and team members have strong records of completing four-year degrees. (1996)
Clemson University Clemson University Lady Tiger Coach Jim Davis was inducted into the Tennessee Junior College Athletic Association on Saturday, January 27. Davis spent the 1985-86 season as an assistant coach with the Florida Lady Gator basketball program. Before joining the Florida Gator staff, Davis spent six highly successful years at Roane State Community College in Harriman, Tennessee. Davis put together one of the most successful stints ever in the junior college ranks by coaching Roane State’s Raiderettes to 127 wins against only 35 losses, which represents a .784 winning percentage. His teams won four Tennessee Junior College Athletic Association (TJCAA) divisional championships, one state championship, and were ranked in the Top 10 by the National Junior College Athletic Association three times (1981, 1984, 1985). His biggest accomplishment was the 1984 team’s finish of 27-2 and the National Junior College Athletic Association National Championship. Davis was coach of the East squad in the 1984 NJCAA All-Star game in Hutchinson, KS. He has also served in top academic and athletic positions such as chairman of the Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Department at Roane State and chairman of the TJCAA Women’s Basketball Committee. He was NJCAA regional director for Tennessee-Kentucky in both 1984 and 1985. Before entering the junior college ranks, Davis coached two years at Englewood (TN) Junior High School and 10 seasons in various Tennessee high schools, including stops at Madisonville High, Charleston High, and McMinn County High. His overall high school record was 197-93, a winning percentage of .679. graduated from Tennessee Wesleyan in 1970 with a B.S. degree in health and physical education. After doing graduate work at East Tennessee State, he received his master’s degree in supervision and administration from Tennessee Tech in 1975. A native of Englewood, TN, Davis is married to the former Bobbie Henderson and they have one son, Todd, 22. Davis does not like status quo and his determination and personality make it a distinct probability that the basketball program at Clemson University will enjoy continued success at new heights. (1997)
Walters State Community
College Coach Gardner was Walters State’s first coach. For two years, he coached baseball and basketball; and then in 1975, he continued to coach baseball only and compiled a tremendous record, including the establishment of some unequaled records in TJCCAA baseball history. His teams in the 1980’s averaged 27 wins per season and won the TJCCAA Eastern Division Championship three consecutive years. Coach Gardner’s baseball team was ranked in the top 20 in the nation three times, finishing fifth in 1983-84 and advancing to the Junior College World Series. He was named Coach-of-the-Year three times, and approximately 25 of his former players were drafted in the professional baseball draft. Bill retired from his baseball coaching in 1983 and subsequently became the college’s golf coach. Once again, as golf coach he compiled a tremendous record and won several championships at the state, regional, and national levels. For the past seven years, his team has won the TJCCAA and NJCAA Region VII championships. His 1992 team finished 14th in the nation; his 1995 and 1996 teams finished sixth in the nation, and the 1995 team had the National Champion Medalist. In fact, his golf team has been called the best junior college golf team in Tennessee-Kentucky in the 1990’s. Coach Gardner has received six TJCCAA and NJCAA Coach-of-the-Year awards. Coach Gardner is a gentleman and a man of high integrity who has contributed greatly to athletics at Walters State and in the State of Tennessee. He has won with character, and he has demonstrated loyalty to the college and the state association. Most importantly, Coach Gardner has contributed to the lives of literally thousands of student athletes who have gone on to become successful citizens throughout the state and nation.
(Feb. 14,1998)
Motlow State Community
College Carr McCalla was Director of Athletics at Motlow State Community College in Tullahoma Tennessee from 1986-1994. He had total responsibility for the Department of Athletics, and oversaw the addition of baseball, women’s fast pitch softball and golf to the athletic program. Motlow State was nationally ranked in eight separate sports seasons during his tenure. Carr McCalla developed proposals that lead to the funding for First National Bank/Jack Daniel’s Elite Classic Basketball Tournament and developed a plan for refurbishing Nisbett Center. He coordinated the development of a plan that resulted in the construction of the Driver Baseball Complex and organized strategic plans for corporate involvement in construction of new softball facility. His discussions with local radio station and sponsors led to basketball games being broadcast locally for first time in ten years. Carr McCalla was on the Executive Committee of the TJCCAA, 1986-1987, 1989-1991, 1993-1994 and was the Secretary/Treasurer from 1986-1987 and again from 1993-1994. McCalla was Assistant Men’s Director, Region VII, National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), from 1987-1994. He was a member of NJCAA Golf Committee, 1989-1994, and Executive Board member of the National Alliance of Two Year College Athletic Administrators (NATYCAA), from 1990-1994. From 1992-1994 he was a member of NJCAA Division I Baseball Committee and from 1989-1991 he was Chairman of TJCCAA Directors of Athletics Standing Committee. McCalla was Chairman of NJCAA Region VII Basketball Tournament Guidelines Committee, 1987-1988. He was a member of TJCCAA Policy and Procedures Manual Committee from 1987-1988 and was Championship Tournament Director for the NJCAA Region VII Basketball Tournament at Belmont University in March 1987. COACHING EXPERIENCE
(1999)
Cleveland State
Community College Dr. L. Quentin Lane, President Emeritus of Cleveland State Community College, earned the Bachelor of Science degree at Middle Tennessee College (now Middle Tennessee State University); the Master of Arts degree at George Peabody College (now a part of Vanderbilt University); and the Doctor of Education degree at The University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He served as a teacher, counselor, assistant principal, principal, and director of staff personnel services with the Chattanooga Public Schools; as Director of Public Relations for the Tennessee Education Association; as Director of Continuing Education and Institutional Research and as Dean of Academic Affairs at Cleveland State Community College. He was appointed to become the second President of Cleveland State Community College in 1978 and retired in 1985 after more than thirty years service in the public schools and public higher education in Tennessee. He later served as Director of Institutional Advancement and Executive Director of the Lake-Sumter Community College Foundation in Leesburg, Florida; as Dean of Admissions and Records at Trident Technical College in Charleston, South Carolina; and as Executive Vice President at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the East Tennessee Area Health Education Center, Inc. As a youngster Dr. Lane played baseball and basketball in elementary, junior high, and high school. He played American Legion baseball in Chattanooga, TN in 1950; freshman basketball at Middle Tennessee State during the 1951-52 season; was one of nineteen students to letter in Intramural Sports at Middle Tennessee State in 1954; coached junior high school baseball, basketball, and football 1954-57; officiated basketball and football in the Tri-State Officials Association area during 1954-57; played basketball and fast pitch softball on the U. S. Army 75th Preventive Medicine Company teams, during 1957-58; played and coached Church League and Independent League basketball and softball from 1959 - 1992. During Dr. Lane’s fourteen years at Cleveland State, he served on the Executive Committee of the Tennessee Junior College Athletic Association (TJCCA); spearheaded the successful movement, against strong opposition at the national level, to divide the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) former Region 7 into two regional divisions; spearheaded the charter flight for the team and supporters and attended the NJCAA Baseball Tournament in Grand Junction, Colorado where Cleveland State finished second in the nation; attended two NJCAA Women’s Basketball Tournaments in Kansas where they finished fourth and seventh in the nation. He attended most league, state, and regional baseball, basketball, golf, tennis, and women’s softball tournaments; hosted, along with the Director of Athletics at Cleveland State Community College, many high school and collegiate sports tournaments; attended most of the games and athletic events of Cleveland State; and drove the bus for the athletic teams on many occasions. The L. Quentin Lane Gymnasium at Cleveland State was named in his honor upon his retirement in 1985. After retiring from Cleveland State in 1985, Dr. Lane became an avid supporter of athletics at Lake Sumter Community College in Leesburg, Florida and at Cumberland University in Lebanon. In 1993, he organized and accompanied the football team and supporters on a Chartered Flight from Nashville to Seattle, Washington where the Cumberland University Bulldogs played in the National Athletic Intercollegiate Athletic Association’s Football Playoffs for the National Champion. |
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