North Carolina State University Athletics
Quick, Donnan Selected to NC Sports Hall of Fame
1/11/2010 12:00:00 AM | Pack Athletics
BY TIM PEELER
RALEIGH – Two former NC State football standouts, quarterback Jim Donnan and wide receiver Mike Quick, are among the seven athletes and coaches chosen for induction into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, when the 2010 class was announced Monday afternoon.
They are the 36th and 37th inductees associated with NC State since the NC Sports Hall of Fame opened in 1964.
Donnan, a native of South Carolina who grew up in Burlington, N.C., was a standout quarterback, punter and tennis player while at NC State. In 1967, he guided the Wolfpack to a win over No. 3 ranked Houston at the Astrodome and helped the Earle Edwards-coached Pack win its first ever bowl game, a victory over Georgia in the Liberty Bowl.
He later became a decorated football coach, turning Marshall into a national NCAA Division I-AA power and leading Georgia to top 10 finishes and compiling a career record of 104-40-0. In more than three decades as a player and a head coach, Donnan never suffered a bowl loss. He is now a successful motivational speaker and television analyst.
He was a 2009 selection for the College Football Hall of Fame.
Quick, a native of Hamlet, N.C., still ranks as one of the Wolfpack's all-time leading receivers. In three years, he caught 116 passes for 1,900 yards and 10 touchdowns. As a sophomore in 1979, he helped the Wolfpack win the 1979 ACC Championship. Following his senior season, he was selected in the first round of the NFL draft by the Philadelphia Eagles.
Quick played his entire NFL career, from 1982-90, with the Eagles. He led the NFL in receiving yards in 1983 and '85 and was a five-time Pro Bowl selection. During the five-year stretch of 1983-87, Quick caught more passes than any other receiver in the NFL.
He currently serves as the color commentator on Philadelphia Eagle radio broadcasts.
The other members of the class of 2010, who will be inducted at the 47th-annual banquet at the North Raleigh Hilton on May 13, include former Wake Forest football player and long-time Guilford College athletics director Herb Appenzeller; North Carolina All-America running back Don McCauley; North Carolina three-time soccer All-America Carla Overbeck; North Carolina field hockey coach Karen Shelton; and highly decorated amateur golfer Paul Simson.
"This year's inductees into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame represent an array of athletic talent that would make any state proud," said Nat Walker, president of the Hall. "Their achievements enrich an already outstanding sports heritage represented by the 266 Hall of Fame members previously enshrined."
Banquet ticket information is available from www.ncshof.org or by calling (919) 845-3455.
You may contact Tim Peeler at tim_peeler@ncsu.edu.
N.C. State's members of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
(Year inducted in parenthesis)
Everett Case, basketball (1964)
Jack McDowall, football (1965)
Bones McKinney, basketball (1970)
Roman Gabriel, football (1971)
Earle Edwards, football (1974)
Vic Bubas, basketball (1975)
Ron Shavlik, basketball (1979)
Sam Ranzino, basketball (1981)
David Thompson, basketball (1982)
Willis Casey, administrator/swimming (1985)
Roger Craig, baseball (1985)
Kay Yow, basketball (1989)
Lou Pucillo, basketball (1991)
Julie Shea Graw, track (1993)
Steve Rerych, swimming (1993)
Norman Sloan, basketball (1994)
Ted Brown, football (1995)
Jim Valvano, basketball (1995)
Tommy Burleson, basketball (1996)
Jim Mills, baseball (1997)
Mike Caldwell, baseball (1998)
Vic Sorrell, baseball (1999)
Jim Ritcher, Football (1999)
Connie Mack Berry, football, baseball, basketball (2000)
Vic Molodet, basketball (2001)
Page Marsh, golf (2001)
Betty Springs Geiger, track/cross country (2003)
Carey Brewbaker, football (2004)
Peter Fogarassy, swimming (2005)
Charlie Bryant, basketball/administration (2006)
Genia Beasley, women's basketball (2007)
Dennis Byrd, football (2007)
Claude Gibson, football (2007)
Bob Harris, radio broadcaster (2008)
Willie Burden, football (2009)
Jim Donnan, football (2010)
Mike Quick, football (2010)
