July 28, 2008

Chapel Hill, N.C. ------- University of North Carolina assistant football coach Ken Browning is one of eight people selected for induction into the the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame. Browning is entering his 15th season in Chapel Hill and his second as the team's running backs coach.

Browning is joined in the 2008 class by the late Bill Bost of Catawba, Richard Hicks of Durham, Mac Morris of Greensboro, Jan Stanley of Hendersonville, Tim Stevens of Raleigh, Billy Widgeon of Morehead City and Charlie Adams of Chapel Hill. This is the 22nd group to join the NCHSAA Hall of Fame, bringing the total to 118 enshrined members.

The new inductees will be honored during special halftime ceremonies at a football game at Kenan Stadium on Saturday, October 25, when North Carolina takes on Boston College. The University of North Carolina has designated the day as the 24th annual NCHSAA Day. The new class will officially be inducted at the special Hall of Fame banquet next spring at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center at the University of North Carolina.

The NCHSAA Hall of Fame is supported by a special grant from GlaxoSmithKline.

"These individuals joining the Association Hall of Fame this year have definitely had a tremendous impact on high school athletics across North Carolina," says NCHSAA associate executive director Rick Strunk, who coordinates the Hall for the Association. "Their records are certainly impressive, but the character they exemplified and the lives they touched are really representative of what the NCHSAA stands for. Their selection maintains the high standards of excellence established by previous inductees, and we are proud to honor these deserving individuals."

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Ken Browning

Ken Browning has proven to be one of the top football coaches in North Carolina at both the high school and collegiate level.

Since 1993, he has served as an assistant coach on the football staff at the University of North Carolina in several different capacities. Prior to that, he forged an outstanding record as a head coach from 1970 to '75 at Ledford and then from 1976 through '93 at Northern Durham, including 10 straight league crowns at Northern. He compiled a brilliant 214-54-6 mark as a head coach. His Knight teams went 43-2 during his last three years and earned the NCHSAA state 4-A crown in 1993. A number of his former players and assistant coaches went on to be high school head coaches. Browning was head coach of the North Carolina Shrine Bowl team in 1993 and is a member of the Guilford College Sports Hall of Fame.