Dr. Lennox Adams, a Vincentian-born inductee into the Arkansas Track and Field Hall of Fame (ATFHF), has expressed gratitude for the honor, but especially for St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Dr. Adams flew to the United States to receive the distinction in person last Friday, June 2, at the Wyndham Riverfront Hotel in North Little Rock, Arkansas.
“I am grateful for the recognition given to me by the Arkansas Track and Field Hall of Fame,” Adams said, “but I am also very happy for the positive attention it brings to St. Vincent and the Grenadines.”
Dr. Adams was one of seven inductees who, according to Ernest Miller, President of the ATFHF, “were extremely athletic in their competitive years” and “held lots of records at the state, school, and national level.”
Dr. Adams, a former Ouachita Baptist University student, was a three-time all-American and the university’s athlete of the year in 1989.
Dr. Adams, a former St. Vincent Grammar School student, has represented St. Vincent and the Grenadines at numerous levels.
Between 1978 and 1986, he was a teacher at Bishops College Kingstown, where he coached athletes competing in regional and international meets.
He was president of the then-St. Vincent and the Grenadines Amateur Athletics Association, currently known as Team Athletics SVG, from 1981 to 1984.
Adams went on to play an important role in the formation of the National Olympic Committee, which has since been renamed the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Olympic Committee (SVGOC), and an even more important role in charting the path for the St. Vincent and the Grenadines National Olympic Committee to become a member of the International Olympic Committee in 1987.
At the time, he was still an active athlete, having been a member of St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ inaugural team for the 1998 Seoul Olympic Games in South Korea.
Even as Dr. Lennox sat in ceremony at the banquet last Friday, it was this same dedicated athlete who, some thirteen years prior, became the very first and, to date, the only inductee into the St. Vincent and the Grenadines National Olympic Committee Olympic Hall of Fame on June 14, 2020, for his pioneering works and contributions to sports in general in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Dr. Adams is a practicing doctor in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.