Doris Leigh
The first bowler to be voted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, Doris Leigh is a former champion. A part of a doubles team that set a 1941 world record, she was ranked as the No. 1 lady duckpin…
William H. Lewis
William H. Lewis was born in Norfolk in 1868. He first played football as a center at Amherst College where he was captain of the team. In 1892, Lewis entered Harvard Law School and under the eligibility rules at that…
Joseph “Buddy” Lex
Joseph “Buddy” Lex was born February 23, 1926 in Norfolk, Virginia. He was an outstanding high school athlete at Newport News High School, making all-state in basketball and football including all-southern in football. In 1944-45, Lex was in the army…
George Hughes
George S. Hughes is a former William & Mary and National Football League star lineman. When notified he had been nominated to the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame he said, “It’s quite a thrill. Football has been a wonderful thing…
Calvin M. Jacox
A native of Norfolk, Calvin Jacox served for 25 years as a columnist and later sports editor for the Journal & Guide, at one time the largest African-American publication south of Washington D.C. He is remembered as a crusader in…
Chandler Harper
Chandler Harper has won 7 championships on the pro golf tour and has finished second in 13 others. His most prestigious victory was the National PGA Championship in 1950, at the time still a match play tournament. Much of the…
Yogi Hightower-Boothe
Yogi Hightower Boothe attended Kempsville High School in Virginia Beach where she emerged as a multi-sport star excelling in basketball and as a member of the United States Junior Olympic swimming team. Hightower-Boothe was then recruited to Old Dominion University…
Bob Holland
Robert Lee ”Bob” Holland, of Virginia Beach, is the only surfer to win the coveted United States Surfing Championships on all three continental coasts. He won his first U.S. Championship in Huntington Beach, California in 1967 in the senior men’s…
Charles “Lefty” Driesell
Charles “Lefty” Driesell is a native of Norfolk, Virginia and a 1954 graduate of Duke University, where he played on the nation’s 10th ranked team as a senior. Driesell received his master’s degree from William and Mary in 1961, and…
James Driver
James Driver was a native of Harrisonburg. He won letters in four sports at William and Mary and at the University of Virginia in football, basketball, baseball and track. During one year, he was captain of all four teams. He…