INDIANAPOLIS, IN (NFHS) – Four outstanding former high school athletes, including Tamika Catchings, one of the top female basketball players at all levels in U.S. history, and Carlos Boozer, a high school star in Alaska before his success at the college and professional levels, highlight the 2023 class of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) National High School Hall of Fame.
Joining the four former athletes in this year’s class are five highly successful high school coaches, one former state association administrator, one band director in the performing arts area and one other who had contributions as an official and administrator.
The 12 honorees will be inducted July 1 at the 40th induction ceremony of the National High School Hall of Fame, which will be held at the NFHS Summer Meeting in Seattle, Washington.
Catchings’ high school career was split between Illinois and Texas. She won two state basketball titles at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois, and one volleyball and one basketball state title at Duncanville High School in Texas. Boozer led Juneau-Douglas High School to two state titles in Alaska.
The other two former athletes in the 2023 class are Clarissa Chun, who became the first wrestler to win an official state high school girls wrestling title in 1998 at Roosevelt High School in Honolulu, Hawaii; and Maranda Brownson, a track and field standout at Yoncalla (Oregon) High School who won all 16 of her events in four years of competition at the Oregon School Activities Association Class 2A State Track and Field Meet.
Five outstanding high school coaches are a part of this year’s class, including Sue Butz-Stavin, who is the winningest field hockey coach in U.S. history in her 47 years at Emmaus (Pennsylvania) High School; Barbara Campbell, who retired as girls volleyball coach at Brentwood (Tennessee) High School in 2021 with 16 state titles and 1,765 victories; Ted Ginn Sr., who has won 240 games in 25 years as football coach at Glenville High School in Cleveland, Ohio, and led the school to its first state championship last fall; the late Allan Trimble, who guided Jenks (Oklahoma) High School to 13 state football championships in 22 years before his untimely death from ALS in 2019; and Sister Lynn Winsor, the remarkable golf coach from Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona, who has led her teams to a national record 37 state championships in her 48-year career.
The administrator in this year’s class is Dave Stead, who had significant contributions to high school activity programs at the state and national levels during his 30 years as executive director of the Minnesota State High School League. Completing the class are Dave Carlsrud, who had a major impact on football and wrestling rules at the state and national levels during his 22 years with the North Dakota High School Activities Association, and Bill Webb, the band director in the Edina (Minnesota) School District for nearly 30 years before retiring in 2015.
Dave Carlsrud had a profound impact on high school sports at the local, state and national levels for more than 50 years, including his 22 years as assistant director (1988-2010) of the North Dakota High School Activities Association (NDHSAA). A graduate of Moorhead State University in Minnesota, Carlsrud was a teacher and coach and worked in the sporting goods industry for many years before joining the NDHSAA staff in 1988.
Carlsrud administered the sports of football, boys basketball, boys ice hockey, baseball and boys golf, and he organized and presented at statewide rules clinics. He was responsible for assigning officials for postseason events in football, boys basketball, baseball and boys ice hockey. Carlsrud was a football, basketball and wrestling official for 53 years until he retired at the age of 71 in 2017.
Nationally, Carlsrud had major contributions to NFHS rules-writing efforts in the sports of football and wrestling. He was a member of the NFHS Football Rules Committee for 22 years and served terms on the NFHS Football Editorial Committee and NFHS Football Game Officials Manual Committee. He also served two terms on the NFHS Wrestling Rules Committee, including four years as chair. During his time on the Wrestling Rules Committee, Carlsrud was instrumental in passage of a weight-management rule which helped curb weight cutting in the sport. Since 2016, Carlsrud has been mayor of Valley City, North Dakota.