This Charleston, S.C. native compiled an amateur record of 165 wins and 12 defeats. He won several amateur championships in both Carolinas, including the South Carolina Golden Gloves in 1961, the Carolinas Golden Gloves in 1971, the South Carolina Junior Olympics in 1968 and many other titles. He was trained by the late Hall of Famer Sonny Snell. After retiring from the ring, Golemis has continued to involve himself in boxing and his community. He currently trains USA, collegiate and professional boxers in the gym he built in 1998. He provides boxing instruction for men, women and children of all ages. Golemis has coached boxing on several levels, including as an assistant at The Citadel. He was a volunteer football coach at James Island Recreation Center and coached five years at Bishop England High School. He has worked with the South Carolina Boxing Commission as a referee and judge throughout the state from 1992 until the present.  A graduate of the College of Charleston, Golemis is married to Danielle Renee and they have two children. He has received awards for community service from the mayor of Charleston, the chief of police, school principals, and other officials. Golemis has the reputation of never refusing help to any individual or group who needs it. He is employed as a contractor.

Tresco Johnson was a professional boxer who went from that profession to molding the lives and boxing skills of young men. He was a native of Troutman, N.C., but settled in Florence, S.C. where at the age of 24, he opened a dry cleaning establishment. Johnson was active in the business community of Florence but continued to coach. Many of his charges became Golden Gloves champions in North and South Carolina. Johnson was also an aviation enthusiast and organized The Civil Air Patrol in Florence. He was serving as a Captain in the reserve at the time of his death in 1948 at the age of 44. Johnson was a believer in clean living and good sportsmanship. He once told a friend that one of his proudest moments was when one of his young boxers volunteered to say grace at a team meal. He also served as vice president of the AAU for many years. Johnson always followed the careers of his boxers and was available for advice to all of them as long as he lived. He coached the Carolinas team at the Tournament of Champions on several occasions.

Born in Belmont, N.C. Bobby "Runt" Cloninger began boxing in 1959 under the tutelage of Lou Kemp at the Charlotte police Athletic Club. He later switched to the Mount Holly Boxing Team where he fought for legendary coach T.L. McManus. Cloninger compiled an amateur record of 36-6, not counting his bouts in the U.S. Navy, where he served four years. He won championships in Gastonia, Newton, Mount Holly, Lincolnton, and Charlotte. Cloninger won the open featherweight championship at the Carolinas Golden Gloves in 1960 and represented the Carolinas at New York's Sunnyside Garden that year.  He was employed most of his career in the steel business. Cloninger and his wife Carolyn are residents of Belmont.

Jody Ganes was born on Nov. 8, 1949 in Hemingway, S.C. He graduated from Kingstree High School and attended FDTC. Ganes and his brother Gusta fought in many amateur tournaments in several states. He won 200 amateur matches and lost 14 and was 45-1 as a professional. Ganes was a classic boxer with power. He scored many knockouts, including a match in the Carolinas Golden Gloves when the only punch thrown was a crunching right which knocked his opponent out in the first round. Ganes has remained connected with boxing all his adult life. He served with the S.C. National Guard in Desert Storm. Ganes won championships in both Carolinas and Tennessee. He won the Southern Golden Gloves in Knoxville in 1968 and was the open 139 title winner at the Carolinas Golden Gloves in 1970.  Today he coaches and trains young boxers in Cades, S.C. Ganes has been recognized as volunteer of the year at Anderson primary school and by the Kingstree High School football team. He has coached Dixie Youth baseball and has umpired baseball and softball games. He maintains his Cades Boxing Team with very little outside help. He and his wife Pam are the parents of three children.

Born in Beaufort, S.C. on Sept. 29, 1919, Nathan "Kid" Crosby was a heavy puncher with a world of ring savvy. Beginning at a young age, Crosby was taught the sport of boxing by his father, himself the Southern Bantamweight champion at one time. Crosby, a welterweight, compiled a record of 151 wins against just four losses, with 87 of his wins via the KO route. Most of his matches were as a professional. He dodged no man, having fought the great Al Reid of Greenwood, S.C. who was one of the few boxers to score a knockdown of Sugar Ray Robinson. Crosby fought in the Greenville/Spartanburg area in the beginning of his career, and then moved to Texas where he was managed by Frankie Edwards, once the manager of Gene Tunney. Crosby defeated such fighters as Chino Lopez, Howard Steen, Paul Altman, Al Hamm, Joe Comforto, and Tommy Roman, all highly regarded professionals. Lopez, in fact, was named the world's best boxer by Ring Magazine in 1944.  After hanging up his gloves, Crosby became a minister in 1951. He was a pastor of churches in Texas and did missionary work in Mexico until his retirement in 1979. Crosby passed away in 1985. His wife Helen and two daughters still live in Houston.

Born in Charleston on July 24, 1953, Bob Brinson began boxing at the tender age of 7. Before he was through he had won 148 and lost 12 matches. He was South Carolina state flyweight champion on one occasion and bantamweight champion on another. Brinson was a Jr. Olympic champion twice and won the Carolinas Golden Gloves twice in 1970 and 1971. He graduated from Charleston Southern University and is involved in the real estate business in Charleston, after ten years as a restaurateur. Brinson boxed for 13 years and was voted "Most Outstanding Boxer" in eight different amateur events. He remains in boxing as an official, refereeing approximately 40 professional fights a year.  Brinson, the father of three children, is licensed with the U.S. Coast Guard as a captain.

Bill Wilkinson participated in the very first Carolinas Golden Gloves in Charlotte in 1933 and walked away with the bantamweight crown. He took the lightweight title in 1935. Wilkinson was unable to enter the Charlotte tournament again until 1939, but he again won the lightweight title that year. A native of Lincolnton, N.C. Wilkinson fought 125 times and lost just four bouts and was never knocked out. He attended King College in Bristol, Tenn. On a boxing scholarship, where one of his teammates was Ed Sweet, a member of the Carolinas Boxing Hall of Fame from Cornelius, N.C. Wilkinson was undefeated throughout his college career. Most of his fights were as a lightweight. He was recognized as smart ring general with good punching power in both hands. Wilkinson won Golden Gloves titles in Charlotte, Raleigh and High Point. He represented the state in a national tournament in Cleveland, where he dropped a close decision.  Wilkinson spent his working years as an executive with Coca Cola Co. in Bristol. He and his wife Elizabeth, now deceased, are the parents of three.