Hall of Fame
Jim Garnett, a native of Fredericksburg, Virginia, lettered in Men’s Basketball and Baseball at Glenville State College and led Glenville State to the WVIAC/West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament Championships in 1970 as a freshman and again in 1972 during his junior year.
Garnett was Co-Captain of GSC’s Men’s Basketball Team in 1972 and 1973. He led the WVIAC in team defensive average points per game for four consecutive years:
1970 68.1 points per game 20-10
1971 61.2 points per game 18-7
1972 66.2 points per game 27-7
1973 59.7 points per game 23-5
(88-29 overall record)
Garnett was a member of the last team from Glenville State College to earn a bid to the NAIA/ National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics National Tournament in Kansas City, this being in 1972.
Glenville State’s basketball squad earned the bid that year by defeating Fairmont State four times including a 2-1 series over the Falcons in District 28 playoffs.
Garnett scored 21 points in the 1970 WVIAC Conference Tournament Championship game win over Morris Harvey College and converted a free throw with 32
seconds left to break a 59-59 tie in the1972 WVIAC Conference Tournament Championship contest. GSC went on to win this game 60-59.
Additionally he was First Team All WVIAC in Baseball as an Outfielder in 1972 and a member of the Theta Xi fraternity.
Friends, fellow team members, and spectators alike fondly remember Garnett as being wonderful at basketball and phenomenal in baseball; all thought him to be as good as anyone in the league.
Garnett, known affectionately as “Hogie” at the time, was inducted into the James Monroe High School Hall of Fame in May 2012. Sadly Jim passed away in October of that year at the age of 60.
Jim Garnett was inducted into the Curtis Elam Athletic Hall of Fame posthumously. His beloved daughters Jaime (Garnett) Moran and Whitey (Garnett) Garrett are in attendance this evening to accept his Hall of Fame Induction.
