Staley will receive Ambassador for Sports Award

USC women’s coach Dawn Staley Staley will receive the Willie Jeffries Ambassador for Sports Award from South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame at its 55th annual banquet and induction ceremony on May 11 at the Columbia Metro Convention Center.

Other award winners are the Jacobs Family of Clinton, Sonny Dickinson of Columbia, Warren Peper of Charleston and coach Gregg Nibert of Clinton.

The Jacobs Family will be recognized with the Bobby Richardson Sportsmanship Award; Dickinson will receive the Dom Fusci Leadership in Action Award. Peper, the longtime face of television sports and news in Charleston, will be bestowed with the fifth annual Herman Helms Media Excellence Award and Nibert will be honored with the Felix “Doc” Blanchard Athlete/Citizen Award.

The new inductees of the SCAHOF Class of 2015 are Clemson running back Terry Allen, USC pitcher Kip Bouknight, Lander tennis coach Joe Cabri, New England Patriots’ tight end Ben Coates, Clemson soccer standout Bruce Murray, Furman football coach Jimmy Satterfield and former Spartanburg Herald-Journal Sports Editor Les Timms, who will be enshrined posthumously.

This story was originally published April 20, 2015 at 3:03 PM with the headline "Staley will receive Ambassador for Sports Award."