2024 Inductees

The team, coached by Clester Winningham, a 2023 Hall of Fame inductee, competed on May 17, 1991 at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville where the record was set. They broke their regional record of 42.9 which was set just one week earlier.

In addition to Winters and Johnson, whose history and biographic information are outlined in their individual profiles, Campbell and Work enjoyed other successes of their own.

Gary Campbell

Gary  is a 1992 THS graduate where he also was a varsity football player and senior class president. After high school, Gary attended the University of T ennessee on anengineering scholarship. In addition to completing five cooperative internships, he was accepted into the T au Beta Pi Engineering and PI Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Honor Societies and received numerous scholarships and awards. Gary graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering – Cum Laude in August 1997.

Gary is a Senior Project Manager with Kimberly-Clark Corporation, located in Roswell, Georgia. Over his 26-year career with Kimberly-Clark, he has led multimillion-dollar projects in North America, Mexico, South America, Europe, and Asia. He served as treasurer of the African American Employee network and was nominated to participate in Kimberly-Clark’s 2024 Aspire Leadership Development Program that will provide opportunities for the next generation of corporate leaders. Gary currently resides in Johns Creek, GA with his lovely wife Danyelle, daughter Ayden and dog Apollo. When not spending time with family, he enjoys powerlifting, antique car restoration and playing golf. Gary’s parents Clifton and Dr. Jessie Campbell still reside at his childhood home in Tullahoma, TN.

Matthew Work

Matthew was also a multi-talented THS Graduate, serving as class officer and participating on the football team.

After high school, Matthew attended Vanderbilt University, graduating with a BS in Human and Organizational Development. He completed Owen Graduate School of Business’ ExecutiveManagement Institute program for non-profit leadership in 2002 and then completed additional

accounting coursework sufficient to sit for the Certified Public Accountant exam in 2003-2004. He is currently employed as Director, Stewardship Division at The Gideons International

Nashville Metropolitan Area. Matthew and his wife Cheri have one daughter, Abby. The family currently resides in Nashville.

Edward was accomplished in track and field at Tullahoma High School as State Champion in 1991 for the 100 Meter Run with a time of 10.79 and as a member of the State Champion 400 Meter Relay Team with a time of 42.68.

The 1998 Tullahoma High School Ladies Golf T eam, coached by Dale Phelps, took the 1998 Class AAA State Golf championship during the tournament at Henry Horton State Park, Chapel Hill, TN October 13th – 14th, 1998 with a two-day total of 316. T eam members were Mary Elizabeth Brice and Kristin Lynch Nichols.

Mary Elizabeth Brice

Mary Elizabeth is a residency-trained optometrist

specializing in ocular disease and refractive surgery. She began her college career at the University of Arkansas on a golf scholarship and transferred her junior year to the University ofGeorgia where she graduated Cum Laude with a degree in Microbiology. She earned her Doctor of Optometry degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. During her time at UAB, she served as the Vice President of Student Volunteers for Optometric Services to Humanity (SVOSH) and was an active member in providing eye care to the underprivileged locally and overseas. She currently resides in Atlanta GA where she and her husband are optometrists with Briggs Vision Group, Dunwoody, GA. They have one daughter, Sienna. Dr. Brice is an author and is active with several optometric boards and associations.

Kristin Lynch Nichols 

Mrs. Nichols went on to play golf at Middle

Tennessee State University as the first lady signee for the Women’s Golf T eam. husband Matt currently reside in Tullahoma with their children Katie Grace and Jack. She is heavily involved as a volunteer with Tullahoma City Schools and was voted 2022 Tullahoma City Schools Volunteer of the Year.

Scott Shasteen began his sports broadcasting career with Tullahoma football in 1984 on ‘Boogie 93’. Since then, he has done play-by-play for 33 football seasons, totaling over 360 games. The Wildcats had a winning record in 23 of those 33 seasons. He has been on all mediums, including the internet, radio, and TV. During the years he was not broadcasting Tullahoma football, he was usually promoting it in other ways; as Sports Editor for the Tullahoma News, writing articles for thswildcats.com, and as an independent videographer.During the past 40 years, Shasteen has broadcast hundreds of Tullahoma and Motlow State basketball games. He also spent a dozen years doing the public address for both programs.

His first state championship broadcast came in 1986 when Tullahoma played McCallie in baseball. He has broadcast four TSSAA state championship football games, including

Tullahoma’s in 2021, and six TSSAA state tournament basketball games. Shasteen has hosted multiple sports talk shows during the past 20 years, including Sports Plus,

The Shasteen Show, and Gold Ball Sports. He served Tullahoma from 2005-2008 as an alderman and was Mayor pro-tem in 2007. He served as Athletic Director at Motlow State for two years and has been the sports information person for the College for 25 years, running the website, writing their stories, and promoting the programs. He is as busy as ever, a consistent, familiar voice on the LightTube Sports Network, where he does play-by-play for Tullahoma football, basketball, and baseball. He co-hosts a weekly sports talk show ‘Gold Ball Sports’ on YouTube. He continues to do sports information for Motlow, broadcasting its games on the internet. He has developed the Shasteen Show into a Spotify podcast. Scott and his wife, Jamie, have two daughters, Alivia and Jackie.

J. Patrick (Pat) Welsh was raised in Tullahoma, Tennessee and graduated from Tullahoma High School, where he played football, in 1972. He graduated from Tennessee Technological University in 1976 with a bachelor’s degree in

secondary education/social science. Pat was employed as assistant football coach and head wrestling coach at Battleground Academy in Franklin, Tennessee from 1976 to 1979. He returned to Tullahoma in 1979 to enter his family’s retail lumber business, and helped start the Tullahoma Youth Wrestling Club in 1991.In the first 29 years of Tullahoma High School wrestling, beginning in 1970, there were no state

champions. In the next 20 years there were 16 state champions and seven runners-up, a direct result of the youth wrestling program. Developing the total person was the chief goal of the youth program. The best example of achievement of that goal was the accomplishments of the 18 young men involved in the third year of the program. That group produced an NCAA All-American, nine high school wrestling

champions, a state golf champion, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, two MDs, two Ph.D.s, two master’s degrees and multiple bachelor’s degrees. Pat was honored when the remodeled gym at the former West Middle School, used exclusively for wrestling, was named the Welsh Wrestling Center. He was named Tullahoma Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year in 2017, The Tullahoma

News Citizen of the Year in 2019, and was inducted in the Charter Class of the Tennessee AAU Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2022. Pat has served as a Tullahoma City Alderman and as a Tullahoma City School Board Member for over 20 years while also serving as a coach for Tullahoma Youth Football, Tullahoma Little League Baseball, and Tullahoma Church basketball. He has been a member of Tullahoma Rotary Club for over 40 years, and the same number of years in the adult chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. He and his wife Beth have three children: John (Yo-Jud), Martha (Carl), and Michael, and three grandchildren: Carter, Emily, and Andrew.

Tullahoma High School as State Champion in 1991 for the 400 Meter Run with a time of 49.15 and as a member of the State Champion 400 Meter Relay T eam with a time of 42.68. During his high school career, Jeremy was also a member of the 1990 State Champion Baseball Team and, in 1991, was selected to the All Mid-State Football T eam for special teams. Jeremy attended college at Drake University in Iowa, David Lipscomb University, Harding University and the University of T ennessee, graduating with PhD. During his college career, Jeremy was 1992 MVP for the David Lipscomb University Track Team, 1997 All American and two time All American at Harding University in 1997. Post college he competed as a paratriathlete, ranking in the top 10 in the world from 2013-2015 and was the United States National Champion in 2012. Jeremy was diagnosed with the degenerative eye disease Cone-Rod Dystrophy (CRD) at age

10. CRD is an inherited progressive disease that causes deterioration of the cone and rod photoreceptor cells and often results in blindness. ”Losing his vision slowly each year helped him adjust to a different way of seeing as he grew older,” Patricia said. “Jeremy was involved in several contact sports at a young age, and little things that occurred during the games caughtour attention that something just wasn’t right. Jeremy is a very positive person which I contribute a lot to his dad, Joe” Patricia, Jeremy’s mother, said. “When he could no longer see well enough to play contact sports his dad helped him turn to track, which Jeremy really enjoyed. Joe drove Jeremy back and forth to Nashville during Jeremy’s junior and senior year of high school to participate in AAU track. It was a great, positive experience for Jeremy.

“While there is no cure for CRD, Jeremy does not let his visual impairment keep him from reaching his goals.”

Jeremy is currently a Professor of Mathematics with the Department of Elementary and Special Education at Middle T ennessee State University. MTSU provides Jeremy with an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) graduate assistant and closed-circuit television that changes normal print into oversize lettering, which allows him to perform his job. “I take everything day by day and keep God as my head Coach. Life is full of challenges for everybody, but overcoming them is what makes you successful”, Jeremy told an interviewer

from the Murfreesboro Post in 2012.

Jeremy is the son of Joe and Patricia “Trish” Winters. He and his wife, Kristin have threechildren, Emma, Ava and Simon.