Former Trinity boys’ basketball coach Tim Kelly has been selected for induction into the North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s Hall of Fame for the Class of 2025.
Kelly, who directed Trinity to a state championship in 2004, retired last summer. The school’s gym is named in his honor.
He began coaching in 1981 and started coaching basketball at Trinity in 1989, winning 11 conference titles, four sectional championships and two regional championships. He also coached football and cross country for different stretches. Kelly coached in the North Carolina East-West All Star Game in 2005.
Others selected for the Class of 2025 are Brad Allen, a longtime high school official from Lumberton who worked his way to the NFL; Tommy Cole, a longtime basketball and boys’ golf coach at Burlington Williams (and won a boys’ basketball state title directing Graham as well); Jerry Hunter, a deceased softball and girls’ basketball coach and athletics director at East Duplin;; Richard Prince, a former coach and official for track and field and cross country in Monroe; Steve Spivey, a longtime tennis coach at Raleigh-area schools; Doyle Whitfield, a former baseball coach and athletics director at Southern Wayne; and Russell Woodward, an ex-track and field coach at Greensboro Grimsley and former athletics director and administrator at Greensboro Smith, Northwest Guilford and Ragsdale.
Members of the induction class will be invited to a reception April 23 at NCHSAA offices in Chapel Hill. Formal induction will take place August 16 at Embassy Suites in Cary.
