City of Raleigh to honor St. Aug Coach George Williams
November 10, 2004
Coach George Williams, Athletic Director of Saint Augustine's College, will be honored with a Proclamation by the City of Raleigh on Tuesday, November 16th at 1:00 p.m. in Council Chambers in Room 201 at 222 Hargett Street.Williams was the Head Track and Field Coach for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece and has produced world-class athletes, with a 95% graduation rate among scholarship athletes. His teams have produced 25 NCAA Division II Track and Field Championships (Men and Women's Indoor & Outdoor Track and Field), and 123 CIAA Championships (Men and Women's Indoor, Outdoor and Cross-Country).
He has been inducted into the CIAA Hall of Fame, the North Carolina and Florida Sports Hall of Fame.
In November 2003, he arranged for Saint Augustine's College to become the first historically black college to host the NCAA Division II Cross-Country National Championships.
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