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ODAC Hall of Fame

Harry G.

Harry G. Jopson

  • Class
  • Induction
    2025
  • Sport(s)
    Administrator, Coach, Men's Cross Country, Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field, Women's Cross Country
HONOREE FROM THE OLD DOMINION ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
  • Inducted to the Bridgewater College Hall of Fame in 1994
  • Jopson began his tenure at Bridgewater in 1936 and revived the Eagles’ track and field program a year later that had been inactive for six years while also introducing BC’s first ever cross country team in 1938.
  • He became a staple of the Eagles’ track and cross country programs for the next four and a half decades and became known as the Dean of Virginia Track Coaches” in the track community. 
  • Jopson led the Eagles to 24 state and ODAC titles during his tenure and took home four-straight ODAC Coach of the Year awards during his last four years before his retirement from 1978-1981.
  • Off the track, Jopson was known widely in the academic community. Doc’s highlights included teaching at the University of Virginia’s Mountain Lake Biological Center for 15 years and discovering a previously unidentified species of salamander.  
  • BC renamed its athletic complex in his honor in 1971 and since 1981 the Old Dominion Athletic Conference has awarded the Harry G. “Doc” Jopson Award to the conference’s top men's sport senior student-athlete who exhibits the highest athletic, academic, and extracurricular achievements.
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