Hall of Fame
A 1950 graduate of ETSU, Charlie Bayless was a four-year letterwinner with the Buccaneer basketball team and also earned one monogram in football. He served as a co-captain of ETSU’s basketball squad in 1948-1949. In 1953, Bayless was hired as a basketball team coach at nearby Happy Valley High School, where he has served for over four decades. Counting his experience coaching the football, basketball, track, baseball, and golf squads, he has compiled an amazing total of over 90 head coaching seasons. He has tallied over 770 career wins in basketball, had 25 winning seasons, made seven state tournament appearances, and won the state title in 1973. He is the only coach to win conference crowns in football, basketball, baseball, and track and he is a member of the East Tennessee Hall of Fame. Bayless and his wife, the former Jane Allison Sisk, have four children and six grandchildren.
