Fielding Crawford is the head lacrosse coach at Atlee High School, in Hanover County, VA, where he led the varsity to three consecutive championship appearances in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Fielding has worked extensively with youth lacrosse in both club and school programs throughout Virginia and North Carolina, including Lafayette High School in Williamsburg and Deep Run in Richmond. In conjunction with North Meets South Lacrosse, a group dedicated to growing and developing lacrosse in the greater Richmond, Jacksonville and Melbourne areas, he founded the central Virginia travel team Venom Lacrosse Club. Fielding spent two years as the offensive coordinator for the University of Richmond’s Men’s lacrosse team, guiding it to two successful seasons with a record of 15-9.

 

As a junior at CCS, attackman Fielding broke the single-season assist record (66) as well as the single season points record (120). As a senior, he was captain of the team and leading scorer. He earned All-Prep, All-State and All-American status. Fielding played for two years at the University of Delaware before transferring to East Carolina University where he earned a degree in History Education. As a Seahorse, he also sailed, and served as a prefect, a student ambassador, and member of the honor society.

Sailor, Merchant Marine, Inventor of the Mobjack
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

Roger Moorman is revered in the international sailing community as a fiberglass pioneer who produced some of the nation’s first GRP sailboat hulls in the 1950s. Following his tour of duty as a second officer and Chief Gunnery officer in WWII, Roger pursued his desire to produce a superior performing boat. He designed wooden sailboats (Windmill, Raven) and ultimately designed and built the Mobjack, a 17-foot planing hull boat that was self-rescuing. The boat was double-hulled (with his singular, superior fiberglass design), unsinkable and the first self-bailing vessel. Even with these features, the Mobjack weighed nearly four hundred pounds less than other boats of similar size. This was revolutionary and made it a fast boat with superior safety attributes. Roger held patents in both England and Canada. His company, Mobjack Manufacturing, operated in the 1950s, 60s and 70s and produced over 900 Mobjacks. Moorman sold his company to Browning Arms Company in 1965. He also co-designed the Nomad and the Skipjack.

 

Roger attended the US Naval Academy, where he lettered in gymnastics. Though sailing was always his passion, as a Seahorse he also played football and baseball, and he was a student photographer. He died in 2012 at the age of 90.

Ward “Buck” Scull is President of Virginia Transfer and Storage, a company that was founded in 1895 by his grandfather. When one of his employees approached him for help in digging out of a spiraling payday loan debt situation, Ward became increasingly concerned what he saw as the injustice of payday lending. Not only did he help his employee, but he went a step further and launched a campaign to limit the practice of payday loans. He started from scratch, learning how the legislative process works and becoming an increasingly effective advocate. After several years of his work, an APR cap of 36% was legislated. In other, quiet good works, Ward partnered with an archaeology professor from William & Mary to purchase Big Island, at the mouth of the York River, preserving it as a snapshot in time of the history of the men and women of the Guinea Marshes. In 2008, Ward was named Daily Press Citizen-of-the-Year in recognition of his commitment to a worthy cause and personal effort to improve the lives of others. The Virginia General Assembly would go on to commend him in a public resolution of respect for his hard work and community involvement.

 

As a Seahorse, Ward Scull was a monitor, editor of The Seahorse, and a senior warden.

He graduated from Duke University and University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.  

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
In March of 2010, the Reverend George Morris was named team Chaplain for the University of Virginia football program. He currently serves as chaplain to both the football and basketball teams, and leads the Fellowship of Christian Athletes ministry. As team chaplain, he provides pastoral care not only for the players, but for the coaches and administrators, as well as their families.

 

While the head coach at UVA, Mike London (current Howard University HC) wrote of Morris, he is “a stellar member of the community, a man of character and caring, a life character coach for countless players and coaches not only at UVA, but in and around the greater university and Charlottesville community. Current coach Bronco Mendenhall adds that Morris “has devoted his life to the spiritual well-being of others.” UVA Head Basketball Coach Tony Bennett says of Morris, “his faith and joy are contagious.”

 

Prior to his work with UVA, Morris was lead pastor of churches in Mathews and Middlesex County, and is the author of Work Ethics in Training: Youth Empowerment and Leadership Manual. He was the host of Huddle, the Christian Sports Radio talk show on WRAR from 2006-10.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
In Mason New’s short life, he was well known not only for his business acumen, but also for his stewardship and service leadership of several educational institutions. After his death in 1996, New was recognized by the Virginia House of Delegates in House Joint Resolution No. 731 as “a man who combined strong family ties, civic responsibility, and a remarkable work ethic … New leaves an enduring legacy of service to his profession and his community.”

 

Starting out as a system engineer and marketing representative for IBM, New joined the brokerage firm Branch Cabell in 1969 and was quickly recognized for his efficacy, becoming a partner in 1972 and managing partner in 1975. Although his rise in the banking industry was meteoric, he never lost sight of his civic responsibilities, and served as Chair of the Christchurch School Board of Governors and the Christchurch Foundation, endowing the Mason New Unrestricted Fund as part of the school’s endowment. His chairmanship was at a very challenging time, and because of his leadership and adept consensus-building, Christchurch thrived.

 

New served as president of the alumni association and on the Board of Trustees for his alma mater, Washington and Lee. In Richmond, he served on the Board of Governors at St. Catherine’s and was president of their foundation.

ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENT
In 1963, Pete Smith was a surfing fanatic at a time when the sport was still merely a curiosity. Born and raised in VA Beach, he and a partner had the entrepreneurial foresight to open Smith and Holland Surf Shop on 22^nd Street. They were pioneers in the industry. As young businessmen they had little idea that the surfing scene would become the multi-million dollar sensation that it did. Smith quickly became a tourist favorite, and “Pete Smith’s Surf Shop” t-shirts were a hot commodity. He became “the voice” of East Coast surfing, announcing at events up and down the boardwalk. His special style and achievements, in both the sport and the business, were central to the transformation of Virginia Beach into a major east coast surfing mecca. He played a huge role in relocating a major surfing contest from NY to VA Beach, a move that resulted in the longest continuous-running surfing event in the US and the second longest in the world.

 

In 1996, Pete Smith was inducted into the Greg Noll East Coast Surf Legends Hall of Fame. He remains an iconic figure in East Coast surfing, and surf shops along the Mid-Atlantic Coast still bear his name. In a 2014 Virginian-Pilot article, Lee Tolliver wrote that Pete Smith is “an ambassador for all that is good about the sport” of surfing.

 

To this day, the surfboard on which Smith learned to surf hangs over the exit of Freedom Surf Shop on Laskin Road.