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Tampa Native To Be Inducted Into Texas ‘Coaches Hall Of Fame’
Skills Camp Unites All Youth Football League Programs
BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer
Beginning July 11th, Team Tampa, in association with Football University, will be presenting a skills camp for boys in grades 5-through-8.
The camp is not a team try- out. Instead, it is an effort to bring all of the youth football leagues in the area together for something big.
“We want to make sure the kids enjoy what they’re doing and at the same time put themselves in position to be prepared for football once they reach high school,” said Coach Duke.
“We want to create a plat- form for the young guys, and give them a positive outlet. All of the kids belong to all of us,
so it’s up to us to make sure they stay focused and on task.” Coach Duke said they want parents to know what their cri- teria is in working with their sons, as well as understand that this skills camp prepares them for high school and col-
lege.
“We’re reaching out to as
many people as we can. “Sports has always proven to be a positive outlet for our children and in some cases, af- fords them the opportunity to further their education on the collegiate level through schol-
arships.”
The Skills Camp will be held
at Oscar Cooler Park, 656 Lutz Lake Fern Road in Lutz, Florida.
For more information, call (813) 389-4604.
The Prairie View University Interscholastic Coaches Asso- ciation will induct Tampa na- tive Nathaniel "Golden Boy" Gillespie into the Hall of Fame in Houston, Texas. The induction ceremony will take place on July 18, at the Western Galleria Hotel.
Gillespie was a four-letter student athlete at George S. Middleton High School 1963- 1966. He played on the Tigers' 1964 State Basketball Cham- pionship team and was a standout running back for Coach William O. Bethel's Middleton High School foot- ball team.
At Texas Southern Univer- sity, (TSU), Gillespie played on the 1968 Southwestern Athletic Conference Champi- onship football team. After graduating from TSU, he began a successful coaching career.
He coached at Jack Yates, Scarborough and E. E. Wor- thing High Schools in Hous- ton. Gillespie served as the
NATHANIEL GILLESPIE ... To be inducted into “Coaches Hall Of Fame”
Head Women's Basketball Coach at TSU from 1970 until 1981.
His team finished as na- tional runner-up in 1981 and he was voted runner-up for
“Coach of the Year.” His team compiled a three-year record of 95-25.
Gillespie was an assistant coach for the 1977 TSU Tigers to the NAIA Men's National Championship. As Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas he was named NAIA District 8 “Coach of the Year” for three consecutive years -- 1980, 1981 and 1982. His team made school history with a 35- 2 record in 1978 and finished fourth in the nation. From 1985 to 1992 he coached Dil- lard University Men’s Basket- ball Team to a 68-20 record.
The New Orleans Sentinel
voted Gillespie “Coach of the Year” in 1987 at Dillard.
Gillespie is a lifetime member of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the Texas High School Coaches Association, Prairie View In- terscholastic Coaches Associa- tion and of the Texas Southern University National Alumni Association.
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