The Lakeside High School Sports Hall of Fame will induct 36 members into their third class in a ceremony at the school on April 17. The school, now 56 years old, won 26 team state championships in the 1970’s and produced some of the best athletes ever to come out of Dekalb County. The 2021 class will consist of 15 football players including John Hayworth, the school’s very first First-Team All-State player as a linebacker/offensive lineman in 1966, who went on to play at Auburn University and was a captain his senior year. Also gong in is Kevin Anthony, Class of 1982, who started at quarterback for the University of North Carolina and went on to work in the front office for the Atlanta Falcons. Hayworth and Anthony will join 13 other football players to be inducted.
The class also includes Shawn Cartmill, who was the goal keeper on Clemson’s 1984 national championship soccer team, and Greg Lester, an All-ACC football player at Georgia Tech, where he caught 93 passes for 1,688 yards and 13 touchdowns and was a member of the 1990 National Championship team. The school will now have 98 members in the Hall which is prominently displayed outside the cafeteria at the school. There are also two special awards given every year to someone that may have not been an athlete but their contributions to the athletic program were great. One is called the John Kicklighter Service Award.
This year’s Kicklighter winner will be Chris Chilton and his mother Nini. Chris was an outstanding basketball and baseball player at Lakeside and has worked in the Dekalb Sports Information office for more than 30 years, promoting thousands of athletes through the years. His mother Nini, who passed recently at the age of 84, volunteered for the school’s sports programs well after his children had graduated and her daughter Carol was inducted into the Hall last year for soccer. The Beth Cooley Cheerleading Award does to Joni Maulden, who cheered for all five of her years at Lakeside (school went 8-12th then), was an exemplary student and has continued to stay close with many of her Lakeside friends. All of the Class of 2020 inductees can be found below with his or her corresponding sport. The first two classes of the Hall are also listed below and for more information you can email I.J. Rosenberg at ijrosenberg@comcast.net or Mark Fleetwood at jmarkfleetwood@bellsouth.net:
Class of 2021
Football: John Schaefer, James Wurst, Walter Smith, Kevin Anthony, Ladd Fletcher, Mark Hickman, Jim McCoun, Tommy Harris, Chris McCoun, John Hayworth, Greg Lester, Jim Kroll, Mike Bartik, Bob Butler and Tobin Sexton
Soccer: Casey Campbell, Dave Blanks, David Ball, Chris Garner, Shawn Cartmill, Roy Day and Mike Balsamides
Cross County: Robbie Burns and Scott Griffith
Swimming: Maria Thrash and Katie Heyburn
Baseball: Brent McGuire, Alan O’Neal and Billy Walker
Gymnastics: Susan Cantrell, Laura Deadwyler and Diane Cantrell
Girls Basketball/Track: Stacy Shelton
Beth Cooley Cheerleading Award: Joni Maulden
John Kicklighter Award: Chris Chilton and mother Nini Chilton
Class of 2020
Football: David Henderson, John O’Neal, Melvin Dorsey, Mark Fleetwood, Huey Richardson, Nick Carmichael, Rocky Kurland, David Elder, Charlie Garnham and Tommy Bowen
Basketball: Britt Franks, Larry Sale and Tori Stewart
Baseball: Coach Marvin Pruitt and Doug Gilcrease
Soccer: John Creviston, Merck Smith, Ronnie Roberts, Peter Pak and Carol Chilton
Cross County: Tony Dipaola and Mark Thompson
Tennis: Kelly Thurman and Paul Groth
Swimming: Margaret Shine and Jan Michaelis-Bilthouse
Track and Field: Rick Elder and Stephen Ott
Gymnastics: Coach Shirley McDaniel and Laura Church
Wrestling: John Kalvelage and Coach Nick Janoulis
Beth Cooley Cheerleading Award: Beth Cooley
John Kicklighter Award: Joe Willingham
Inaugural Class of 2019
Football: Wayman Creel, Dick Conn, Jack Jones, Ed Butler, Jack Fuqua, Mike Johnson, Jack Bowen, Coach Dave Redford, Spencer Nelms, Greg Davis and Coach Phil Lindsey
Boy’s Basketball: Pete Fusi
Baseball: Gene Ammann and Ron Cash
Soccer: Coach Jim Mitchell, Tom Manget, John Manget and Lane Kenworthy
Cross Country: Coach Eddie Roberts and Joe Thorne
Tennis: Lianna Bebeau
Swimming: Coach Avalee Spinks and Renee Loisel
Track and Field: Robbie Horton
Gymnastics: Coach Lucia Norwood, Jeff Morrison, Barbara Hall and Karen Loewen
Wrestling: Bryan Carlisle
John Kicklighter Award: John Kicklighter
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