The Florida High School Athletic Association announced their eight-member Hall of Fame Class of 2018 on Monday. Three of the inductees are from the Central Florida and Tampa Bay area.
Horace Cannady, a basketball and football official who has worked 2,600-plus contests the last five decades in Florida. A member of the Central Florida Officials Association Hall of Fame, Cannady was named the FHSAA Official of the Year in 2010. He has worked six Florida High School Basketball State Championship Games in his career.
Donna Blumer, an administrator who has served as the Athletic Director at Dixie Collins High School for nearly three decades. The first female FIAAA President chaired the FHSAA Public Liaison Advisory Committee for 15 years, while also serving on the FHSAA Athletic Director Advisory Committee and FHSAA Academic All-State Selection Committee. The 2000 FIAAA Athletic Administrator of the Year also received the NIAAA State Award of Merit in 1998.
John Crumbley, the winningest baseball coach in Hillsborough County who has won 700-plus games and four state championships. The three-time Florida Dairy Farmers’ Baseball Coach of the Year led Jesuit in Tampa to the 1997 High School National Championship in a vote by the writers at Baseball America. In 2007, Crumbley was also inducted into the Florida Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
Mitchell Mick, a contributor who founded the High School Football Game of the Week in Tampa, a legendary weekly radio broadcast that went from 1960 until the late 1990s. The Tampa native was the first to have an exclusive broadcasting contract with the FHSAA for its state championship events, including the first-ever FHSAA Football Championship Game in 1963. Mick was named ASA National Broadcaster of the Year four times.
Other FHSAA inductees include:
Gary Droze, who has won a combined 30 cross country and track & field team state championships and was runner-up an additional 16 times.
Kelsi Dunne, a dominant softball pitcher who was a two-time First Team High School All-American and the 2007 EA Sports National Softball Player of the Year.
Craig Faulkner, a four-time state championship coach in baseball who has won more than 400 games, including 15 20-win seasons.
An induction ceremony will take place at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center in Gainesville on September 23. Tickets to the induction ceremony are $50 each and can be purchased this summer at FHSAA.org.