{"id":14395,"date":"2015-02-10T13:38:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T18:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playingfieldpromotions.com\/blog\/?p=14395"},"modified":"2022-05-27T18:10:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T18:10:33","slug":"roy-williams-named-guest-speaker-inductee-wnc-sports-hall-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsspeakers360.com\/blog\/roy-williams-named-guest-speaker-inductee-wnc-sports-hall-fame","title":{"rendered":"Roy Williams Named Guest Speaker and Sole Inductee into WNC Sports Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — North Carolina’s mens basketball coach, Roy Williams<\/a>, will be the guest speaker and lone inductee into the WNC Sports Hall of Fame as part of the 54th WNC Sports Awards Banquet to be held on May 17 at Omni Grove Park Inn. Source: Citizens Times<\/p>\n

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Photo shows UNC mens basketball coach Roy Williams delivering his speech upon being enshrined to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2007.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finding a new home in Kansas, where he established himself as a great leader of college basketball teams before his home away from home \u2014 Chapel Hill \u2014 called him back not once but twice before he agreed to return. And what a homecoming – the continuation of a HOF career highlighted by his first two national championships as coach of North Carolina.<\/p>\n

At age 64, Williams has been called home again, to be recognized and honored for a lifetime of success and achievement in the game he loved so much he would sneak as a kid.<\/p>\n

“Western North Carolina is my home,” said Williams. “It always has been and always will be… I am thrilled to be inducted into the Western North Carolina Hall of Fame and I hope all the people there who molded me as a youngster are proud as well.”<\/p>\n

Watch the following video where Roy Williams delivers his speech upon being enshrined to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2007.<\/p>\n

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