Sports fans of the 50s would say Charles Duncan Niven was arguably the best and most exciting three-sports athlete ever to play in Wilmington. His size was an unimposing 5 feet 8 inches and 170 pounds and he was referred to as Charlie “Barrel” Niven. He was exceptionally fast and[…]
Born in Raleigh in 1944, Larry graduated from Raleigh Broughton in 1962. He was the quarterback for their 1961 state championship team. He went on to attend UNCW where he was the outfielder on the National Jr. College Baseball Championship team in 1963. He graduated from UNCW in 1966. From[…]
JOHN BUNTING John Bunting was born in Portland, ME in 1950 to James M and Ethel Bunting and grew up outside of Washington, DC. He was a 3 year starter in Basketball and Baseball and an All-County, All-Met DC in football his senior year. He was recruited by Coach Bill[…]
Gwen Austin, a stand out basketball player at Wallace-Rose Hill High School was a dominating 6’2” center. In her freshman year she was All Conference, HM All East; sophomore year she was All Conference, All East (2nd Team); junior year..All Conference, All Section (1st team), All East (1st team) and[…]
