An HBCU soccer teaching legend has handed away.
Douglas T. Porter, former head soccer coach and administrator, handed away on June 5, 2024. He was 94. Coach Porter had a good enjoying and training profession.
A local of Memphis, Tennessee, Porter served because the quarterback at Xavier College of Louisiana in New Orleans. After serving our nation in the USA Military and reaching the rank of first lieutenant, he spent his whole in HBCU athletics. He was appointed athletic director at Mississippi Valley State College. After serving at Mississippi Valley, he served at Howard College from 1974 to 1978 earlier than touchdown in Fort Valley.
The HBCU product coached Fort Valley State College from 1979 to 1985 and once more from 1987 to 1996, compiling a head teaching file at FVSU of 112-66-3. Porter was a seven-time SIAC Coach of the Yr and served as Athletic Director for 16 years whereas appearing because the chairman of the Division II Soccer Committee and as president of the Nationwide Athletic Steering Committee. He was inducted into the School Soccer Corridor of Fame in 2008 and the FVSU Athletics Corridor of Fame in 2009.
“He left a long-lasting influence on not solely his gamers, however all college students, school, workers, and alumni,” states Jeffery Parlor ’85, and former participant beneath Coach Porter. The Lomax-Porter Charity Golf Event, which is held yearly, is called in honor of Porter and former soccer and basketball coach Stan Lomax ’43 (1923-2018).
Along with his B.S. diploma from Xavier, he held an M.S. diploma from Indiana College. Doug Porter solid an indelible teaching and administrative profession for greater than fifty years. Funeral preparations and celebration of life particulars are forthcoming
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