Athletic Hall of Fame

Coaches: A coach may be eligible for nomination into Whitfield’s AHOF after having had coaching success at the high school varsity level. Coaches become eligible one year after leaving Whitfield, through either retirement or a professional move. Personal integrity, sportsmanship, and honorable character are also factors considered.

Nomination Criteria

• Athletes: An athlete may be eligible for nomination into Whitfield’s AHOF after five years following graduation from Whitfield. The nominee must have had athletic success at the high school varsity level in one or more sports. Personal integrity, sportsmanship, and honorable character are also factors considered.

• Coaches: A coach may be eligible for nomination into Whitfield’s AHOF after having had coaching success at the high school varsity level. Coaches become eligible one year after leaving Whitfield, through either retirement or a professional move. Personal integrity, sportsmanship, and honorable character are also factors considered.

Special Nomination Criteria

• Under unique circumstances, the AHOF Committee has the ability to waive the year and/or graduation requirements with ⅔ majority vote of the committee. Special criteria might include the following: 

  • Selected into any national hall of fame

  • Achieved a world record

  • Has participated in the Olympics and/or World Games representing the United States

  • Played and won an amateur national championship or professional championship on a team or as an individual
     

• The committee has the right to waive criteria and expand the number of inductees in a given year with a ⅔ majority vote.

SUBMIT NOMINATION

Athletic Hall of Fame classes will be formally inducted every five years, specifically in those years ending in 0 and 5. The AHOF Committee will be selected two years prior to the upcoming induction ceremony, will be active for those two years in addition to six months after the ceremony, and then will be dormant until five total years have passed. Then, a new AHOF Committee will be selected. Committee members may reapply to be on the new committee. The committee will be composed of the following members according to the below process.

• The Whitfield School Athletic Director will serve as Chair. 

• The Head of School, Assistant Head of School, and Director of Alumni Relations will serve on the committee.

• Up to seven alumni to allow for broad representation and diverse membership will serve on the nomination committee. Each alumna/us will serve for a three-year term (two years preceding the induction year and one afterward).

• Prospective Hall of Fame committee members will submit an application to the Athletic Director two years prior to the next AHOF induction year (submission years end in 3s and 8s). The exception will be in 2024 when applications are submitted for the 2025 AHOF.

AHOF COMMITTEE APPLICATION

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