HUNTSVILLE | Long-time University of Alabama in Huntsville track coach David Cain, hockey trailblazer Jared Ross and former Charger baseball star Adam Bass are among the 12 members of the Class of 2023 of the Huntsville-Madison County Athletic Hall of Fame.
 
Cain, who participated in track and field and cross country at Grissom High and Mississippi State, has been the track and field and cross country coach, for both men's and women's teams, at UAH since 1998. He is a 16-time Gulf South Conference Coach of the Year and his teams have won a total of 15 GSC team titles, including the men's track and field championship in 2022. He has also been named the South Region Coach of the Year 17 times in his career.
 
Ross, the son of the late UAH hockey coach Doug Ross, a 2008 Hall of Fame inductee, was signed by the Philadelphia Flyers after his UAH career and in 2008 became the first Alabama-born and raised player to appear in an NHL game. He wrapped up his pro career with five seasons in Germany.
 
Bass played for Madison Academy and UAH before pitching five years in the minors in the Arizona and San Diego systems, ending his career in Japan.
 
The Huntsville-Madison County Athletic Hall of Fame banquet, presented by TOC, will be Monday, April 10, 2023 at the Von Braun Center's South Hall. The class of 2023 was selected by a vote of the Hall of Fame board of directors after receiving nominations from the public.
 
The members of the Class of 2023 alongside Cain, Ross and Bass are former University of Alabama football star Darrell Blackburn, Alabama A&M and pro football player Kenyon Hambrick (football), Olympic swimming medalist Margaret Hoelzer, prep and collegiate wrestling standout Turner Jackson, volleyball player and coach Holly Richards, the late basketball star Marvin Stone, outdoorsman Dr. Warren Strickland, former Grissom football standout and now Troy head coach Jon Sumrall (football) and football player Gary Wagner.
 
The Special Achievement Award will be presented to Danny Treadwell, who played one season at Butler High School and led the Rebels to the state championship, enduring the taunts of fans as he was the lone Black player on the floor at Tuscaloosa's Foster Auditorium.
 
Bass, Cain and Ross join a large group of current and former UAH coaches, athletes and staff in the 350-plus member Hall of Fame, including Lennie Acuff, Tanya Broadway, Willard Brooks, Melanie Donahoo, Richard Gattis, Mark Hutchinson, David Keel, Mark McCarter, Becky Stitt Plott, Joe Ritch, Doug Ross, Ostap Stromecky, Les Stuedeman, Tracy Valenzuela, Dean Willis, Kayo Willis and Roger Wright.
 
Those interested in nominating a candidate for the Class of 2024 can do so online through the Hall's website, http://hmcahof.com/ or print and mail the form found at http://hmcahof.com/nomination_form.php. Those making nominations should provide supporting documentation, with information on the nominee's career.