Five members have been named by the North Carolina High School Athletic Directors Association as the 10th class for induction in its own Hall of Fame.

The new NCADA Hall of Famers include Mac Cumbo of East Flat Rock, Boyce Deitz of Swain County, Roger Dixon of Gastonia, Jim Hayes of Charlotte, and Deborah Jones of Charlotte.

The five will be recognized at the annual North Carolina High School Athletic Directors Association state conference at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, with the Hall of Fame banquet scheduled for March 30.

The NCADA Hall of Fame has been established to recognize achievement and excellence for athletic administration. The inductees are honored at the NCADA’s annual state convention, and a permanent display honoring the athletic directors’ Hall of Fame is located in the offices of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association in Chapel Hill. The new class brings to 48 the number in the Hall.

Born in Danville, Virginia, and a graduate of Thomasville High, Mac Cumbo has had an outstanding career in athletics and administration.

For 18 years he was athletic director and head football and track coach at Flat Rock Junior High, and then enjoyed stints at Edneyville and North Henderson from 1990 to 2001.

Cumbo served as president of the North Carolina Coaches Association in 1999, just two years after he had been president of the North Carolina Athletic Directors Association. He also served on the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Board of Directors.

A certified athletic administrator, Mac serves as the director of web site and technology for the NCADA. He is also very active at his church, Mud Creek Baptist, and is currently serving as church administrator since his retirement from the Henderson County schools.

Boyce Deitz enjoyed a 31-year career in coaching but also made a great mark in athletic administration.

A graduate of Sylva-Webster High and Western Carolina University, Deitz was the athletic director and head football coach at Swain County from 1977-97, where he won five state crowns, and then at Smoky Mountain from 1997 to 2000, A member of the Jackson County and Swain County Athletic Halls of Fame, Deitz served on the boards of the N.C. Coaches’ Association, the N.C. Athletic Directors’ Association and the NCHSAA.

He is a past president of the NCADA and helped spearhead moving of the annual conference into the western part of the state for the first time. Deitz currently works as regional outreach coordinator for athletics at Western Carolina University.

Roger Dixon has been involved in teaching and coaching for over 35 years, including over 20 as an athletic director.

A graduate of St. Andrews Presbyterian College, he enjoyed stints as athletic director at North Gaston (1978-85), Gastonia Ashbrook (1985-97), Charlotte Christian (1997-2002) and Charlotte Vance (2002 2003). He also coached football, track and basketball during his career.

He earned the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators’ Association Award of Merit in 2003 and was the president of the NCADA in 1995-96. He has also served on the Board of Directors for the N.C. Coaches’ Association and was a meet official for a number of NCHSAA track championships.

He currently is the athletic director at Socastee High School in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

A graduate of Appalachian State, Jim Hayes enjoyed over 30 years in athletics almost exclusively at one school.

He grew up in Boone and was a three-sport athlete at Appalachian High before his college days. Hayes went on to become a teacher, coach and athletic director at East Mecklenburg from 1964 to 1998, with the exception of one year as a head football coach at North Moore.

While at East, he served as head football and wrestling coach and was athletic director from 1983 to ¹96. He served on the Board of Directors of the NCHSAA and is formerly a regional Athletic Director of the Year by the NCADA.

Debby Jones has had a distinguished career in athletics in a variety of capacities.

A native of Dubuque, Iowa, she moved to Charlotte in 1962 and graduated from Garinger High and then from Appalachian Sate in 1972.

She coached several different sports at West Charlotte from 1972 to ¹97, coaching tennis exclusively for her last 17 years there and winning 12 conference titles. She served as athletic director at West Charlotte for four years and then was the first AD at the new Vance High in Charlotte, serving from 1997 to 2002.

A certified athletic administrator, Debby served on the Board of Directors for the NCADA and was the Region 6 Athletic Director of the Year in 1999.

She has served on various NCHSAA committees and also directed numerous conference and sectional tournaments. She is a member of the NCHSAA Hall of Fame.

Honorees in the charter class, inducted in 1995, included NCHSAA executive director Charlie Adams, former Charlotte-Mecklenburg director of athletics Dave Harris, Russ Blunt of Durham’s Hillside High School, long-time Greenville Rose athletic director and NCADA executive secretary Richard “Bud” Phillips; former High Point athletic administrator A.J. “Tony” Simeon, and Norma Harbin of Winston-Salem, the first female athletic director at a 4-A school in North Carolina.

Willie Bradshaw of Durham, Mike Brown of Wilmington, Jack Groce of Boone, Red Hoffman of Wilkesboro, Leon Brogden of Wilmington and Homer Thompson of Winston-Salem joined the Hall in 1996. The 1997 inductees included Ruth Pool of Durham, Bill Eutsler of Rockingham, Shu Carlton of Gastonia, Gilbert Ferrell of Wilson and Thell Overman of Wallace, while in ‘98 the Hall welcomed Jim Blake of Durham, Wat Holyfield of Raleigh, Carroll King of Raleigh, Benny Pearce of Fayetteville, Jerry McGee of Elizabeth City and Dudley Whitley of Rocky Mount.

The 1999 inductees were Dave Johnson of Charlotte, Glenn Nixon of Clayton, Bob Sawyer of Greensboro and George Whitfield of Greenville, while in 2000 Don Patrick of Newton-Conover, Bill Carver of Fayetteville and Simon Terrell of Chapel Hill joined the Hall.

The 2001 inductees included Carl Bolick of Charlotte, Herman Bryson of Winston-Salem, Ed Peeler of Shelby and Chip Gill of Durham. The 2002 honorees were Dick Knox of Chapel Hill, Jack Musten of Winston-Salem, Don Saine of Gastonia and Sue Shinn of High Point.

Last year Tim Brayboy of Cary, Hilda Worthington of Farmville, Roger Thrift of New Bern, Spike Corbin of Wilmington and Richard Murray of Ahoskie were inducted.

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CONTACT: JERRY MCGEE, NCADA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR