Dr. Lennox Adams: Inducted into another Hall of Fame

ATFHF, Ernest Miller, “... were extremely athletic in their competitive years” and who, “... held lots of records at the state, school and national level.”

A former student of the Ouachita Baptist University, Dr. Adams was a three-time all American and was the University’s Athlete of the Year in 1989.

Contributing at home

A former student of the St. Vincent Grammar School, Dr. Adams represented St. Vincent and the Grenadines at various levels.

VINCENTIAN- DR. LENNOX ADAMS, one of seven inductees in the Arkansas Track and Field Hall of Fame (ATFHF), has expressed his gratitude for the recognition, but more so for St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Dr. Adams travelled to the USA to have the honour bestowed on him in person, last Friday, June 2 at the Silver City Ballroom of the Wyndham Riverfront Hotel in North Little Rock, Arkansas.

Pleased with having left his mark on the US Track and Field scene in the 1980s, Adams related: “I am grateful for the recognition given to me by the Arkansas Track and Field Hall of Fame, but I am also very happy for the positive attention it brings to St. Vincent and the Grenadines.”

Adams leaves his mark

Dr. Adams was among a group of seven inductees who, according to President of the

As a teacher at the Bishops College Kingstown between 1978 and 1986, i.e., before his overseas sojourn, he coached athletes entering for regional and international meets.

From 1981 to 1984 he served as president of the then St. Vincent and the Grenadines Amateur Athletics Association, now known as Team Athletics SVG.

Adams went on to play a significant role in the establishment of the National Olympic Committee, which has since been rechristened — the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Olympic Committee (SVGOC), and an even more pivotal role in charting the way forward for the St. Vincent and the Grenadines National Olympic Committee to become a member of the International Olympic Committee in 1987.

He was still an active athlete at this time and was a member of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines debut team to the 1998 Seoul Olympic Games in South Korea.

Even as Dr. Lennox sat in ceremony at the honour being bestowed on him at the banquet held last Friday, it was this same dedicated athlete who, some thirteen years prior, for his pioneering works and his contributions to sports in general in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, became the very first, and to date the only inductee into the St. Vincent and the Grenadines National Olympic Committee Olympic Hall of Fame, on June 14, 2020.

Dr. Adams is a practising medical doctor and arguably St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ top photo journalist.

THE VINCENTIAN extends heartfelt congratulations to this esteemed son of the soil. (Contributing Writer: Gloriah)