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Hall of Fame

T Carney

Tim Carney

  • Class
    1962
  • Induction
    2005
  • Sport(s)
    Football, Men's Basektball, Baseball, Coach
Name: Tim Carney, Athlete - Coach - Director of Athletics
Class of: 1962
Tim Carney, a native of Dunbar, played for Coaches Leland Byrd, Jesse Lilly, Jr., and Carlos Ratliff at GSC. After graduation, he began his teaching/coaching career at Calvert County Middle School in Prince Frederick, MD. In 1965 he moved to Gwynn Park High School, serving as baseball and basketball coach. In 1968 his basketball team won the Class "C" Maryland State Basketball Championship. In the fall of 1968, Carney returned to Glenville State as golf coach and assistant basketball coach to Jesse Lilly, Jr. In 1970 and 1972, their teams won the WVIAC Class "C" Tournament. Their 1972 team advanced to the National Tournament in Kansas City. Following eleven years as Coach Lilly's assistant, he took over the women's basketball program where his teams were 146 and 73 in the nine years he coached the Lady Pioneers. His coaching tenure in golf lasted twenty-eight years, during which his teams won twelve WVIAC Championships, highlighted by a second place finish in the 1995 NAIA National Golf Championship. He coached five All-Americans and was named WVIAC Golf Coach of the Year twelve times. In 1988 he was named WVIAC Coach of the Year in both basketball and golf. During his career, he held various offices in the NAIA Golf Coaches Association and served as that Association's President in 1989. Carney, who also took pride in his role as a professor, was named Glenville State College's Outstanding Faculty Member in 1995. Tim and wife, Linda, also a GSC graduate (1961) and retiree, maintain residences in Glenville and South Carolina. The Carneys have three children; Steve who resides in Snellville, GA, Scott '85 a resident of Dublin, OH, and Sandy Frame '92 who lives in Wilmington, DE. They have four grandsons; Kyle, Brett, Liam and Zachary, and one granddaughter, Taylor.
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