NORFOLK, Va. — LaVerne Sweat, head women's track coach and Senior Woman Administrator at Norfolk State, has been selected to the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference's John B. McLendon Hall of Fame.

Sweat, a Norfolk native, was the first female President of the CIAA in the 1980s. Her ultimate accomplishment in track & field came in 1999 when she was selected to be an assistant coach for the United States Track and Field Team at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

While coaching at Hampton University and Norfolk State University, respectively, she earned the CIAA Track & Field Coach of the Year nine times, was the NAIA National Coach of the Year in 1981, was voted NCAA Division II Coach of the Decade in 1991, was selected as Head Coach of the World University Games in Bucharest, Romania in  1991, and Head Coach of the Junior Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada in 1993.

Sweat joins four others to be inducted this year. They are former North Carolina Central All-American football player Ernie Warlick; former Virginia Union basketball players William "Pony" Wilson and Charles Oakley; and WAVY TV 10 Sports Director Bruce Rader. They will be honored on Friday, March 4 at 11 a.m. at the Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley Hotel.