Norvell Lee

Basketball – Coaching
Inducted: 2026

Smithfield native
Best-known for coaching basketball at Goldsboro High School, where he compiled a record of 455-133 in 26 seasons
His Goldsboro teams won 19 conference titles and played for the 1983 state 4-A championship, losing to Greensboro Page
Prior to coming to Goldsboro, Lee coached at three segregated high schools, winning seven conference championships and reaching the state title game of the North Carolina High School Athletic Conference in 1968
Inducted into the NCHSAA Hall of Fame in 2020
Became head coach at St. Augustine’s College in 1994, leading the Falcons to their first-ever CIAA Tournament championship three years later
Died five months after that title run when he suffered a heart attack