Tony McClamrock
1938-2023
Founder of the Cabarrus County Sports Hall of Fame

Tony was born in Concord, North Carolina on December 2, 1938. He graduated from Concord High School in 1958 and was awarded a full football scholarship to Lenoir Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education in 1962. He played football and ran track all 4 years and his team played in 4 bowl games, winning the NAIA national team championship in 1960, to date the only LRU team to achieve this honor.

 

After college Tony accepted a teaching and coaching position at Statesville Senior High School where he coached all sports for 6 years. While coaching, his team won the NCHSAA State wrestling championship.

 

In 1969, Tony began his career in the forms sales field and moved with his family to Raleigh, North Carolina where he worked for Double Envelope Corporation and Sizemore Business Forms, establishing an entire new territory and distributorship in the forms sales business. In 1990, Tony established his own forms sales distributorship, McClamrock Business Forms, which he successfully operated until his retirement in late 2022.

 

Tony excelled in sports throughout high school and college and attained numerous awards and honors including Captain and Most Valuable Player awards. He remained interested and involved in sports his entire life, especially football and tennis.

 

In 2009 he was inducted into the Lenoir Rhyne University Sports Hall of Fame which inspired him to found and manage, in 2010, the Cabarrus County Sports Hall of Fame in his home town of Concord, North Carolina. In 2019 Tony was inducted into the Cabarrus County Sports Hall of Fame.