Former Decatur High athletics director entering state Hall of Fame

Longtime Decatur High AD and basketball coach Carter Wilson gets inducted into the Georgia Athletics Directors Association Hall of Fame Sunday. Courtesy of Carter Wilson

Longtime Decatur High AD and basketball coach Carter Wilson gets inducted into the Georgia Athletics Directors Association Hall of Fame Sunday. Courtesy of Carter Wilson

Former Decatur High Athletics Director Carter Wilson gets inducted into the Georgia Athletics Directors Association Hall of Fame at the state ADs conference in Savannah March 25.

Wilson cites as primary role models his basketball coach at Clark Atlanta University, Leonidas Sondric Epps, legendary Grambling State University football coach Eddie Robinson, and longtime Morehouse College basketball coach and AD Arthur McAfee Jr., who died two weeks ago.

“All these men paved the way for me as outstanding administrators and coaches,” Wilson told the AJC. “What was impressive is that they were able to do things on a national level when [Historically Black Colleges and Universities] had so few resources and a lack of facilities.”

A 1972 graduate of Decatur High, he was the school’s head basketball coach from 1983-85 and again from 2000-10, and AD from 2000 until his retirement last July. In between stints at Decatur he earned his master in athletics administration while also coaching basketball at Georgia State University from 1985 to 1997, the last four seasons as head coach.

As AD the achievement he’s perhaps proudest of is earning a seat on the national board of directors for the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association from 2014-16.