Johnnie Hill-hudgins -

She helped form the first girls' track team at Princeton High School in 1965. Hall of Fame: In 2012, she was inducted into the Princeton High School Athletics Hall of Fame alongside her brother. Masters Competition:

Johnnie died on an ordinary spring morning. The obituaries, predictably, trimmed his complexity into tidy lines: “beloved mechanic and volunteer,” “local hero.” But the neighborhood felt the loss as a thousand small absences—an empty chair at the community center, the silence of an engine left untouched, a pile of letters on a porch that would not be sifted again. At his funeral the minister read a letter Johnnie had left: it said little about himself and much about the things he hoped people would keep—tools, books, conversations. “Tend them,” he wrote, “and pass them on.” Johnnie Hill-Hudgins

Whitney's lawyer went to great lengths to explain why Hudgins was irreplaceable, arguing in court: She helped form the first girls' track team