Alphonso Hamilton

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, STAUNTON

Coach Hamilton was born in Shamrock, Florida and graduated from Pamlico County High School in Bayboro, NC in 1948. After a tour in the U. S Army (1951-53), he received his B.S. degree in biology from Shaw University, Raleigh, NC, in 1956. That same year he began his coaching career as basketball coach at Booker T. Washington High. In 11 years as head coach he compiled a record of 174-57, winning eight straight district Championships and back to back VIA Group II State Championships in 1961 and 1962. They finished in third place in the 1966 state tournament. With the integration of the public schools in the late 1960s he became head basketball coach at Robert E. Lee High in Staunton and won the Virginia High School League State Championship in 1967. He served as assistant principal at Lee High from 1967 to 1989. He is now the Pastor of the First Church of God In Christ, Staunton, Va.