Longtime high school athletic official Jerry McGee became the fifth North Carolinian inducted into the national High School Athletics Hall of Fame this week.

McGee was inducted Monday night during the National Federation of State Associations' annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

McGee, 69, has been executive director of the N.C. Athletic Directors Association since 1991.

He has been active on the national level with the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association and currently serves on its advisory council.

"If you know Jerry, you love him," said Charlie Adams, the executive director of the N.C. High School Athletic Association and another Hall of Famer.

"He has spent his life working for the boys and girls. He has changed the culture of being an athletic director in North Carolina.

"He viewed being an athletic director as an opportunity to have an impact on every child in a school."

McGee and his twin brother, Mike, were born in Washington, D.C., but grew up in Elizabeth City. They played football at Duke, and Jerry entered high school coaching in 1962 at Edenton Holmes, where he won two state titles.

He coached college football for nine years, including stops at East Carolina and Duke, before returning to Elizabeth City as Northeastern's coach.

McGee already was a member of the NCHSAA Hall of Fame.

NEW ADS: Southern Durham and Durham Riverside have new athletic directors.

Art Richmond, the boys basketball coach at Southern Durham, was named as the school's athletic director this week.

Margratha Chambers, a former girls basketball coach at Riverside, took the athletic reins at Riverside on July 1.

Chambers is a 1967 Winston-Salem Atkins High graduate and played basketball at N.C. Central, where she was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 2005.

She coached at Ansonia, Conn., for 10 years, winning two state championships, before going to Githens Junior High in Durham.

Chambers was on the original staff when Riverside opened in 1990.

She coached girls basketball there for 12 years before becoming the assistant athletic director to Mike Marks, who recently retired.

"The athletic program at Riverside is doing well," Chambers said. "We are on a little bit of a roll and want to continue it."

Richmond was a football standout at Northern Durham and played football at Elon University.

He coached one year at Durham Jordan before entering the banking profession.

He left banking in 2003 to work with longtime friend Levi Beckwith, who was the boys basketball coach at Southern Durham.

Richmond later was the girls basketball coach at the school for two years and last year became the boys basketball coach.

He will keep his boys basketball position.

"Southern Durham is doing a great job with its student-athletes, but we need to do a better job letting people know how outstanding our kids are," Richmond said.

HARRISON WINS DEBUT: Former South Granville baseball star Matt Harrison won in his major league debut Tuesday, pitching the Texas Rangers to a 3-2 win over the Los Angeles Angels.

Harrison was called up from the Rangers' Triple-A affiliate, the Oklahoma RedHawks, and didn't arrive at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, until 3 p.m.

Harrison pitched seven innings, allowing two runs and five hits.

The Rangers acquired Harrison from Atlanta in July 2007. He started the season at Double-A Frisco, Texas.

LEE RETIRES: St. Andrews Presbyterian College basketball coach Billy Lee has retired.

Lee cut his coaching teeth at Wake Forest-Rolesville as an assistant under Larry Lindsay. Lee later was head coach at East Montgomery and New Bern.

Lee coached at UNC-Pembroke for seven seasons and at Campbell for 18 seasons before resigning.