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'Coach' Gets His Medal
Aycock grad Moultrie to be enshrined in USA Track Hall of Fame
By Bill Martin - Reporter Staff Writer
Photo by Ken Esten Cooke
Rockdale Repoter, August 17, 2006
At 75 years of age and with over 50 years of track experience, "Coach" is finally getting recognized on a national level.
Aycock graduate William Moultrie will be enshrined into the United States Track and Field Hall of Fame on Dec. 12, 2006 at a ceremony in San Antonio during the association's annual convention.
"This is a tremendous honor," said Moultrie, a member of the Aycock Class of 1950. "I had not anticipated this. It was totally unexpected."
Moultrie will become one of only 111 that have been inducted into the coaching wing of the Hall of Fame.
And, Moultrie will have plenty of familiar Texas company with him when he enters the shrine with 12 other inductees.
He will be joined in the Class of 2006 by University of Texas Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds, long time Abilene Christian track coach Don Hood, former TCU track star and long-time Northeast Louisiana track coach Bob Groseclose as well as Iowa State's Bill Burgan and Illinois' Gary Wieneke.
Dodds, a former trak star and track coach at Kansas St., has been Athletic Director at Texas for 25 years.
Moultrie will also join former Longhorn track coaches and long-time inductees Stan Huntsman and Clyde Littlefield.
And in an even greater honor, Moultrie will be able to join his coach at Texas Southern, the late Stan Wright, in the Hall of Fame.
Wright is one of the most respected sprint coaches in the history of the sport, as is his prized pupil, Moultrie.
"Yes, it's very dear to me," Moultrie said. "To follow people of that caliber makes it that much more special to me."
"Coach Wright told me that I didn't have much talent, but I would make a great coach. He took me under his wing."
The selection process is a stirct one. You must be nominated by a current member, then there is a selection committee that has the final word.
Moultrie has a storied career in track that began in high school, where he was an outstanding athlete in a schoolhouse full of outstanding athletes at Aycock.
He attended Texas Southern where he was a standout and was singled out by his own coaches as someone who would make a great coach himself someday.
Moultrie coached at Stanford University for five years from 1968 to 1973. He then moved on to Howard University, a historically black college...in 1992 when he was asked to be an assistant on the United States Olympic team where he was to concentrate on his specialty - sprints.
That 1992 squad featured the future star, Michael Johnson of Baylor.
At tthe 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Moultrie was selected as a running referee.
Moultrie is about to begin his fourth year as a health professor at Bowie St. University in Bowie, Maryland.
He has no plans to retire anytime soon, but when he does, Rockdale's population will grow by one and in a very familiar place.
"I've built a home, right behind Aycock," Moultrie says. "I didn't plan it that way, it just happened to work out that way."
"I'm on a roll right now," Moultrie said. "I feel like I have the best job in the world. I do not have a timetable to retire as we speak."
Aycock grad Moultrie to be enshrined in USA Track Hall of Fame
By Bill Martin - Reporter Staff Writer
Photo by Ken Esten Cooke
Rockdale Repoter, August 17, 2006
At 75 years of age and with over 50 years of track experience, "Coach" is finally getting recognized on a national level.
Aycock graduate William Moultrie will be enshrined into the United States Track and Field Hall of Fame on Dec. 12, 2006 at a ceremony in San Antonio during the association's annual convention.
"This is a tremendous honor," said Moultrie, a member of the Aycock Class of 1950. "I had not anticipated this. It was totally unexpected."
Moultrie will become one of only 111 that have been inducted into the coaching wing of the Hall of Fame.
And, Moultrie will have plenty of familiar Texas company with him when he enters the shrine with 12 other inductees.
He will be joined in the Class of 2006 by University of Texas Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds, long time Abilene Christian track coach Don Hood, former TCU track star and long-time Northeast Louisiana track coach Bob Groseclose as well as Iowa State's Bill Burgan and Illinois' Gary Wieneke.
Dodds, a former trak star and track coach at Kansas St., has been Athletic Director at Texas for 25 years.
Moultrie will also join former Longhorn track coaches and long-time inductees Stan Huntsman and Clyde Littlefield.
And in an even greater honor, Moultrie will be able to join his coach at Texas Southern, the late Stan Wright, in the Hall of Fame.
Wright is one of the most respected sprint coaches in the history of the sport, as is his prized pupil, Moultrie.
"Yes, it's very dear to me," Moultrie said. "To follow people of that caliber makes it that much more special to me."
"Coach Wright told me that I didn't have much talent, but I would make a great coach. He took me under his wing."
The selection process is a stirct one. You must be nominated by a current member, then there is a selection committee that has the final word.
Moultrie has a storied career in track that began in high school, where he was an outstanding athlete in a schoolhouse full of outstanding athletes at Aycock.
He attended Texas Southern where he was a standout and was singled out by his own coaches as someone who would make a great coach himself someday.
Moultrie coached at Stanford University for five years from 1968 to 1973. He then moved on to Howard University, a historically black college...in 1992 when he was asked to be an assistant on the United States Olympic team where he was to concentrate on his specialty - sprints.
That 1992 squad featured the future star, Michael Johnson of Baylor.
At tthe 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Moultrie was selected as a running referee.
Moultrie is about to begin his fourth year as a health professor at Bowie St. University in Bowie, Maryland.
He has no plans to retire anytime soon, but when he does, Rockdale's population will grow by one and in a very familiar place.
"I've built a home, right behind Aycock," Moultrie says. "I didn't plan it that way, it just happened to work out that way."
"I'm on a roll right now," Moultrie said. "I feel like I have the best job in the world. I do not have a timetable to retire as we speak."