After more than 20 years in the basketball business, Carter Wilson has come full circle with his duties as Athletic Director and Head Basketball coach at Decatur High School.

A native of Decatur, Georgia, Wilson started his coaching career at Decatur High School in 1979.  During his tenure as an assistant coach, The Bulldogs were consistently ranked as the #1 team in the State of Georgia and as high as the #2 team in the Country in the USA Today poll.  In 1983, Coach Wilson was named Head Coach at Decatur High School and was named Region Coach of the Year in 1984 and the Dekalb County Coach of the Year in 1985.

In 1985, Wilson joined the college ranks as an assistant coach at Georgia State University where he was an integral part of GSU’s rise in Division I basketball.  In 1994, Coach Wilson was named as head coach at Georgia State University where he served for 3 seasons.

After 3 seasons as the head basketball coach at Tucker High School, Wilson returned to Decatur High School in 2000 when he became the school district’s first full-time Athletic Director.

While serving as AD at City Schools of Decatur, Coach Wilson earned a CAA certification in 2007 and was named Region Athletic Director of the Year in 2004 and 2009.  Coach Wilson joined the Board of Directors of the Georgia Athletic Directors Association in 2003 and will serve as the organizations President in 2009-2010.

Prior to entering education, she was an Assistant Manager for Citizens and Southern Bank in Savannah.   After leaving the bank, she became co-owner of Express Delivery.

She began her career in education as a teacher and coach at Savannah Arts Academy.  At the school, she served as Department Chair, First Aid and CPR instructor and wrote the curriculum for Health and Physical Education.  In her 17 years at the school, she coached softball, tennis, swimming, track and field and volleyball.  As a leader, she also became the instructor for the Health and Physical Education curriculum in grades K-12 in the Savannah-Chatham School District.

In 2006, she was named the Director of Athletics for the school district.  Some of the responsibilities included:  the district’s athletic budget, implementing fundraising, ordering, purchasing, and delivery of athletic equipment to the schools.  She assists principals in recruiting, selection of coaches and athletic directors, evaluation of athletic personnel and facilities. 

Her many honors in Savannah include: Top Ten Working Women, Savannah’s National Federation Citation Award and Athletic Director of the Year.  On the state level she served as President of the Georgia Athletic Directors Association and served as a delegate to the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators conference for many years.  At the national level she served on the Awards Committee of the NIAAA for one term.

Before taking his current position as director of athletics at Marist School in Atlanta, Georgia in 1996, Tommy Marshall coached high school football and taught social studies at Redan High School in Stone Mountain, Georgia and Walton High School in Marietta, Georgia.

 Marshall was defensive coordinator at Redan High School in 1979 when it won a state championship, and received a teacher-of the year award the same year.  As head coach at Walton High School, Marshall was the Cobb County coach of the year in three of his five years at the school.

In 1985, Marshall moved to the collegiate level as assistant head coach at Mars Hill (North Carolina) College for one season.  He then moved to his alma mater, Furman (South Carolina) University, where he was assistant football coach for eight years and assistant athletic director for one year.

Since 1996, Marshall has been instrumental in building the athletic program at Marist School, which was ranked the NO.15 high school athletic program by Sports Illustrated in 2005.

Marshall was named Georgia Athletic Directors Association Region Athletic Director of the Year four times, and most recently in the 2007-08 year.  Thanks to Marshall’s leadership, Marist was awarded 10 consecutive years as the best overall athletic program in Georgia.

Marshall, who was an all-Southern Conference defense back at Furman, has extensive involvement with the NIAAA.  He currently serves on the NIAAA Board of Directors, is a leadership training program instructor and was Georgia’s NIAA liaison for six years.  He is also an active member of Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) serving on the South Carolina FCA Board of Directors in the early 1990s.

Charles Turner is a native of Union Point, Georgia, and has served on the GADA Board since 1990.  He began his teaching and coaching career in 1975 at Oglethorpe County High School and ended it in 2004 at Cedar Shoals High School.  Charles Turner has been active on the GADA Board for 19 years.

Charles received his under graduate degree in 1975 from Clark College and graduate degree in 1999 from the United States Sports Academy.  He became a Certified Athletic Administrator in 1996 and a Certified Master Athletic Administrator in 2003.

Charles received the State Award of Merit in 2001 and 2005. Charles served as President of the GADA in 2004.  In retirement he remains active with the Georgia Athletic Directors and works as a part time sales representative for Daktronics, Inc. the leading designer and manufacturer of scoreboards, programmable display systems, large screen video displays and sound.

Ed has over 38 years in coaching experience. Including 24 years as Head Football Coach and Athletic Director at Early, Co., Bainbridge and Thomas Co. schools.  In 2001 Ed served as president of the GADA.  He's received Region AD of the year four times and has won State AD of the year. 

Ed's coaching accomplishments include coaching five teams to state championships and seven regional championships.  He's also received the GACA Coach of the Year award and will begin serving as the GACA President for the 2010-11 season.

Ed and his wife Lorraine have been married 40 years and have five children and seven grandchildren.

Tom Price began his career as an educater after graduating from Tennessee Technological Univ. with a B.S. degree in education in 1973 and his Master's degree in 1974.  He chose health and physical education as his major after graduating from Young High in Knoxville, TN.  Tom played basketball and baseball while attending TN Tech. 

Tom has spent his entire professional career in Cobb Co. and served the community as a teacher, coach (Baseball, Boy's Basketball, Boy's Golf, Girls Track and Volleyball), assistant Athletic Director, Director of Athletics and Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources.  He assumed the Cobb Co. Athletic Director's role from his friend and mentor - charter GADA member, Corky Kell.  Tom attended Jacksonville State Univ. from 1989-1991 where he received his ED.S degree.  He also served on the GHSA Executive Committee, representing what was then Region 5-AAAA.  Tom retired from the Cobb Co. school system in 2002.

Roy "Buddy" Knapp Jr coached GA high school football, basketball and golf teams for nearly 30 years.  Caoching teams for Carrollton, Mt Zion, Chattooga and Coosa high schools.  During his career in Georgia and Alabama he took teams to post season play 18 times. He was named Coach of the year 8 times and three times named All-Star game coach.  He's been inducted into the hall of fame for Mt. Zion high school as well as Notasulga high school in Alabama. 

Coaching is a family affair for the Knapps.  Son of Roy Knapp and father of Brian Knapp. 

A member of the GADA since 1988 until his retirement in 2003. Buddy has received the following awards as an Athletic Director.

1992 & 1994 Class A Region Athletic Director of the Year
1994 Class A State A Athletic Director of the Year
2000 State Athletic Director of the Year, all classes
Recipient of the 2002 NIAAA State Meritorious Service Award

Buddy served as president of the GADA in 1995-96 and was instrumental in encouraging the GHSA to move from a four classification system to the current five classification system.