Morristown High School’s athletic department has announced Doug Carlton and Haley Hart as this year’s Athletic Hall of Fame honorees.
The official induction ceremony will take place Jan. 28 in between girls junior varsity and varsity basketball games against Edinburgh. There will be a reception for family, friends and fans that night.
The fifth induction class will be honored at approximately 7:15 p.m.
Doug Carlton spent nine years as head coach of the Morristown girls basketball program. He won two Shelby County Tournament titles, three sectionals and one regional during his tenure.
Carlton closed out his career with 102 wins, the most in school history for the girls basketball program.
Carlton returned to the Yellow Jackets program this season as an assistant coach to Rachel Kleine, one of his former players.
Haley Hart is a 2015 graduate of Morristown High School where she was an exceptional track and field and basketball athlete.
Hart set track and field records in the shot put and discus and was a three-time state championship qualifier in the shot put. After 28th- and 11th-place finishes at the state meet at Indiana University in Bloomington, Hart finished fourth in 2015 with a program record throw of 42 feet, 5.25 inches.
Hart won three shot put sectional titles and was a regional qualifier in the discus. She set the school record in the discus at the regional with a throw of 117-9.
When her basketball career came to an end, she was top 15 in scoring and top 10 in rebounding.
Hart currently lives in Tampa, Florida, and works for Crunch Fitness.
The Hall of Fame at Morristown was created in 2018.
