Over 300 attendees gathered at the Alan Harvey Theater and Piedmont Community Church’s Guild Hall on Saturday, April 26 to celebrate six former PHS athletes and two iconic teams. The honorees were: Courtney Gault Azad 1999 (basketball, softball, and tennis); Jim “Truck” Cullom (posthumous) 1942 (football); Robby Inch 2010 (lacrosse and football); Catey McCreary 1983 (basketball and softball); Casey Morris 2008 (basketball); Lauren Remer 2013 (soccer and track).
The PSHOF has also added a new official “Team” category and enshrined the 1976 NCS 2A Champion Football Team and the 2003-2005 Back-To-Back State Champion Girls Basketball Teams.
Luke Heller served as the event MC.
“The Hall of Fame ceremony is about bringing people together,” said event organizer Steve Humphries. “Family and friends supporting the inductees, players coming together to celebrate their team’s achievement and the community coming together to celebrate our great athletes of Piedmont.”
Humphries said there was a major effort on the part of the Committee to help tell the story of the early days of girls athletics in Piedmont, and to show the contrast between participation in the 1970s with the flourishing girls programs of today. McCreary provided a montage of the pioneers of Piedmont Sports from the 70s and 80s and PHS alum and athlete Sara Lillevand spoke about McCreary’s life as a female athlete at that time.
Twenty-seven of 33 players reunited from all over the country for the 1976 NCS Football Champion team’s induction.
The girls basketball team had back-to-back State Championships in 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 — both teams were inducted into the Hall of Fame. Annie Crangle helped organize the attendance of 15 of the 20 team members who could make the event, which included Ashley Paris and Logan Rawlings Dufort, who flew in from London. (View the video presentation covering two seasons, two championships and a 66-4 records during that time.)
PSHOF fans mill around the lobby of the Alan Harvey Theater 
Host Luke Heller 
Catey McCreary, basketball and softball player, class of 1983 
Inductee Catey McCreary (2nd from left) with friend Alex Manolis, daughter Abby, friends Tiffin Groff, Susan Terrill, and Laura Gustafson 
Lauren Remer, soccer and track standout, class of 2013 
Inductee Robby Inch, Ellie Rutten, inductee Lauren Remer, and Cormac Craigie (photo courtesy of Steve Humphries) 
Inductee Robby Inch (center) with coaches Jeremy Stothers (l) and coach Kevin Kelley (r) (photo courtesy of Steve Humphries) 
Son John Cullom accepts the award for his father Jim “Truck” Cullom 
Courtney Gault Azad, Class of 1999 
The 2003-2005 CIF State Champions girls basketball team 
The State Championship Trophies made their way to the ceremony and the reception (photo courtesy of Steve Humphries) 
Basketball player Casey Morris, Class of 2008, and her daughter 
Sisters and basketball inductees, Casey Morris and Chazny Nunes 
Coaches from the state champions girls basketball team 
Luke Heller, Michael Murphy, Steve Humprhies and Chris Hart