HONOREE FROM BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE
- Inducted to the Bridgewater College Hall of Fame in 2001
- Whitelow lettered two years in football, basketball, and track at BC and was the first black athlete to participate in intercollegiate athletics at the college and the first black athlete in the state to play at a school not predominantly black
- Returned to his alma mater in 1969, Whitelow taught in the Physical Education Department and coached football, basketball, and tennis for the next 28 years
- Was named ODAC Men’s Tennis Coach of the Year in 1979 and coached the college’s first-ever ODAC men’s tennis player of the year and guided the college’s first player to participate in the NCAA men’s tennis tournament
- Received his degree in physical education from BC embarking on a long and distinguished career in education teaching in the Staunton Public School system for 10 years before his time at BC
- Retired in 1997 and was named the Bridgewater Ruritan Club’s Citizen of the Year (passed in 2021)
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