TONY BAGGIANO -- The veteran AHSAA football and basketball official from Montgomery called contests in three decades from 1973-1994. He served as one of the AHSAA's chief clinicians, administering more than 150 football and basketball rules clinics, and worked closely with the AHSAA while serving in several leadership positions statewide and in local officials associations. Born in Jamestown, N.Y., Baggiano called many playoff contests and even flew back from Washington D.C. on one occasion to work a game, then flew back to the Capitol to finish his business there. The retired U.S. Air Force Colonel also served on the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) Board of Directors from 1990-1996 and chairman of the Pan American Sports Council. A judge at National and World Junior Water Ski Championships, he is a member of the American Water Ski Educational Foundation Hall of Fame.

DOUG BARFIELD -- The former Auburn University head football coach has been a major contributor to the AHSAA as a head coach, athletic director and through his marketing efforts with the AHSAA and the Alabama High School Athletic Directors & Coaches Association. He has also served the AHSAA in a coordinating role for Encore Rehabilitation, an AHSAA corporate partner, and working extensively with the AHSAA wrestling weight management program. The Grove Hill native compiled a 25-5 record as head coach and athletic director at UMS-Wright of Mobile from 1963-65, then coached Andalusia two years with a 15-4-1 slate before  moving into the college coaching ranks for 18 years at Southern Miss, Clemson, Auburn and Mississippi State. Barfield returned to the high school ranks in 1989 at Hillcrest-Evergreen where his team was 8-1 in the school's initial season. He then resurrected Opelika's program with a 40-19 record over five seasons with five trips to the state playoffs. His overall high school head-coaching record was 88-29-1.  Barfield quarterbacked the South's 26-0 win in the 1953 North-South All-Star Game and became the game's first player to coach in the game in 1964.

JOE BELYEU -- The veteran boys basketball coach has served as head coach at Goodwater and then for more than 20 years at Central-Coosa High School in his hometown of Rockford where he attended J.D. Thompson High School (Cottage Grove) and then graduated from Coosa County in 1972. Belyeu's teams have won four state championships (1995, 2000, 2001, 2004) and finished runner-up in 2008. He was 94-46 at Goodwater, which reached the semifinals in 1987, and now has a 526-223 overall coaching record. Belyeu was named Class 4A Coach of the Year by the Alabama Sports Writers Association twice (1995, 2004) and was recipient of the Cap Brown Coach of the Year honor in 2001. Named Southeast Coach of the Year in 2001, he coached in the 2000 Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Classic and also in the AHSAA North-South game. He has the distinction of coaching standouts Adalius Thomas and Justin Tuck, who played against each other in Super Bowl WLII in 2008.

WANDA GILLILAND -- A member of the AHSAA executive staff as an assistant director since 1996, she has played a key role in developing the state championship programs in volleyball, softball, basketball and cross country. She has also served on the NFHS basketball, softball  and spirit rules committees and has helped enforce the AHSAA's eligibility requirements through school audits, investigations and foreign exchange student regulations.  The Marion County native served as a teacher and coach/athletic director at Hamilton High School from 1979-1996 where her girls basketball teams compiled a 301-96 record and won the 1990 Class 5A state championship and finished runner-up the next year. Her teams made four state tournament appearances , won the Marion County tournament seven times and the area title 10 times. She received coach of the year honors in basketball, track, golf and softball. She was inducted into the Marion County Sports Hall of Fame in 2001.

GEORGE HATCHETT -- The Ramsay High School graduate began his coaching career in 1973 at Fairfield High School as an assistant in football and basketball. After a stint at Mortimer Jordan High School, he joined the coaching staff at Vestavia Hills, first in 1977 at Pizitz Middle School and in 1981 at Vestavia Hills High School where he became head boys basketball coach, a position he still holds. His teams won Class 6A state championships in 1992 and 2009, regional titles in 1999 and 2009 and finished as regional Tourney runner-up twice.  Named Coach of the Year twice by the Birmingham Tip-Off Club, he has compiled a 506-345 career high school head coaching record. Hatchett has also served as freshman football coach.

WILLIAM "BILL" MURRELL -- Murrell has been a teacher, coach and administrator at Athens Bible School since 1970.  Growing up as a preacher's son in Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia and England, he has served as Athens Bible head baseball coach for 37 years and his teams have compiled a 658-351 overall record. His teams won the 2008  Class 1A state crown, finished second five times (1980, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2009) and reached the Class A semifinals three other times (1987, 1989, 2007).  His teams have reached the state playoffs 27 times, including 21 of the last 24 years, and have won 24 area titles. He was named Class 1A Coach of the Year by the Alabama Sports Writers Association in 2008 and 2002. As head cross country coach for 34 years, he has guided his teams to four boys state championships (1977, 1978, 1979, 1980) and five runner-up finishes and his girls team to two runner-up finishes. His program has produced 36 All-State runners and five individual state champions.

JOHNNY PATRICK -- A 1968 graduate of Kinterbish High School in Sumter County, Patrick, became one of the state's premier boys basketball coaches from 1972-2004 and also served as head football coach from 1977-82 with a 22-27 overall record.  From 1982-2003 his Wildcat teams were 497-124 with 10 state tournament appearances and five state championships (1988, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2004). He was named Class 4A Coach of the Year five times and served as head coach in the Alabama-Mississippi Basketball Classic three times (1994, 1997, 2004). He also headed the 1996 South team in the AHSAA North-South Game. He also served Sumter County High School as athletic director and assistant principal.