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| Name | Ricardo COLCLOUGH [3, 4, 5, 6, 7] | |
| Gender | Male | |
| Education | a 2000 graduate of Sumter High School, Sumter, South Carolina | |
| HIST | PITTSBURGH - The Pittsburgh Steelers placed third-year cornerback Ricardo Colclough on the team’s reserve/injured list Saturday, meaning he will miss the remainder of the season. • He was a former Sumter High School, Sumter, South Carolina, standout, and has been sidelined due to a neck injury. • He had played in each of the 1-2 Steelers’ first three games. He had three solo tackles and one assist on defense. He returned four punts for six yards and one returned one kickoff for 22 yeards. • The injury started bothering him during Pittsburgh’s off week. According to the team’s web site, he said he couldn’t remember any particular instance that would have caused the problem. Former Sumter High School, Sumter, South Carolina, football standout Ricardo Colclough was claimed off waivers by the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League on Wednesday after being released by the Pittsburgh Steelers. He, a cornerback and kick returner, was released by the Steelers on Tuesday (30 Oct 2007). He was a second-round pick of the Steelers in the 2004 NFL Draft out of Tusculum University. Sumter Item to reveal Top 125 Sports Figures with anniversary celebration Posted Saturday, October 12, 2019 6:00 am BY DENNIS BRUNSON In celebration of its 125th anniversary, The Sumter Item is going to select the Top 125 Sports Figures during that period in Sumter, Clarendon and Lee counties. The list will be revealed in reverse order starting on Wednesday with Nos. 125-111. The remaining lists will be contain 10 figures beginning on Friday. Those lists will appear every Wednesday and Friday until it reaches the top 10 in December. At that point, one story will be released in each edition until the top figure is revealed. The list will include people who affected sports in our area both in competition and in other ways as well. Coinciding with the list reveal, we'll be asking readers to reveal their Top 10 sports figures in Item history, and we'll be hosing Autograph Giveaway contests featuring our famous local sports figures. The Sumter Item's Top 125 Sports Figures 61-70 Posted Monday, November 11, 2019 3:02 pm In celebration of its 125th anniversary, The Sumter Item has selected the Top 125 Sports Figures during that period in Sumter, Clarendon and Lee counties. The list will be revealed in reverse order, appearing every Wednesday and Friday until it reaches the top 10 in December. At that point, one story will be released in each edition until the top figure is revealed. The list will include people who affected sports in our area both in competition and in other ways as well. 70) John Fulton - John Fulton was a standout defensive back and wide receiver for Manning High School before graduating in 2010. He went on to sign with Alabama and was part of two national championship teams. He also had a brief stay in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles. 69) Ryan Haviland - Ryan Haviland was a standout tennis player for Sumter High School and was one of the top ranked junior players in the country. He went on to play collegiately at Stanford and played professionally as well. 68) Toy McCord - Toy McCord was a standout football and baseball player for Manning High School in the 1960s. He went on to play both sports at the University of South Carolina. He was an All-Atlantic Coast Conference performer in baseball before being drafted in the ninth round of the 1968 MLB draft by the California Angels. He went as high as Triple-A before retiring. 67) Ricardo Colclough - Ricardo Colclough was an outstanding defensive back for Sumter High School in the late 1990s, who played two years of junior college football in Texas before transferring to Division II Tusculum. He was an All-American there and was a second-round draft pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2004 and played on the Steelers’ 2005 Super Bowl-winning team. 66) LaVerne Knox - LaVerne Knox retired at the end of the 2018-19 high school basketball season and what a career it was. He went 521-274 in 31 seasons, most of them coaching the boys teams at Mount Pleasant and Lee Central. He brought home a pair of 2A state titles with Lee Central and was the runner-up twice as well. He was inducted into the South Carolina Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame this year. 65) Ronnie Burgess - Ronnie Burgess was a 2-year starter as a defensive back at Sumter High School and was an all-state performer in his senior season of 1980. He went on to play at Wake Forest and fi nished with 17 career interceptions and was an All-Atlantic Coast Conference performer. He played one year in the NFL with the Green Bay Packers. 64) Bob "Bobcat" Montgomery - Bob “Bobcat” Montgomery was born in Sumter in 1919 before moving to Philadelphia in 1934. That’s when his boxing career took off and he had 97 professional bouts. He went 75-19-3, winning the world lightweight title on two different occasions. He is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. 63) Tom Lewis - Even though his time as the head football coach at Sumter High School ended in a bad way with the Joe Klein embezzlement scandal, there is no argument with the success Tom Lewis enjoyed. He led the Gamecocks to a pair of 4A Division I state titles and a 156-62 record in 16 seasons. SHS was the runner-up on four other occasions. 62) Greg Welch - Greg Welch was one of the best football players to ever come through Sumter County. He rushed for 3,284 yards and 34 touchdowns at Hillcrest High School, playing in the 1984 Shrine Bowl. He went on to sign with South Carolina and rushed for 113 yards on just 18 carries as a freshman before tearing up his knee in a game. 61) "Marvelous" Marvin Montgomery - “Marvelous” was always placed in front of the name of Marvin Montgomery when talking about him as a high school football player and with very good reason. Montgomery was a standout receiver for Hillcrest High School, and he could score from anywhere on the fi eld. He was a member of the 1983 Shrine Bowl team and was selected to the All-South team. He had signed a scholarship to play with Clemson, but his life came to a tragic end in a car accident before his freshman season. Sumter High to add 5 to their athletic hall of fame Dec. 14 The plaques from the 2023 class of the Sumter High Athletic Hall of Fame is seen during their induction on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023. SHS will induct a new class on Dec. 14. ADAM FLASH / SUMTER ITEM FILE PHOTO Posted Saturday, November 16, 2024 6:00 am By TIM LEIBLE tim@theitem.com The Sumter High Athletic Hall of Fame is expanding once more, as the Gamecocks prepare to induct a new class on Dec. 14. Last year, SHS inducted a new class for the first time in more than a decade. They didn't want to have another wait before adding to their hallowed halls. The Gamecocks will add five major sports figures this year, a coach and four players, with the Class of 2024. The SHS baseball program will be well represented as former head coach Brooks Shumake and pitcher Matt Price join the fold. Carl Baker Jr. thrived in both football and baseball at Sumter High en route to the hall of fame. Fellow gridiron star Ricardo Colclough and basketball standout Brittany Starling round out the exceptional class. Shumake and Price teamed up as the Gamecocks won the 2006 SCHSL 4A state championship. Price went on to lead the Sumter P-15's to two American Legion World Series before starring at South Carolina. Suiting up for the Garnet and Black, Price served as the closer for the back-to-back College World Series champion Gamecocks in 2010 and 2011. He also helped them get back to the CWS in 2012 before graduating. He was inducted to the University of South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame in 2022 and joins fellow two-time Gamecock Jordan Montgomery in the SHS hall. Shumake continued an excellent career at Sumter High after Price graduated. He led the Gamecocks to a total of three state championships, adding titles in 2011 and 2014. He won 389 games at Sumter High. Baker Jr. is the second Carl Baker to be inducted into the Sumter High Athletic Hall of Fame in as many years. His father was a longtime coach at Sumter High, and the pair teamed up as coach and player in the early 1990s. Baker Jr. was a star on both the gridiron and diamond, earning a trip to the Shrine Bowl before signing to play both sports at Clemson. Colclough was a star defensive back at Sumter High in the late '90s. He played two seasons of junior college ball before transferring to Tusculum, where he caught the eye of NFL teams. The All-American was eventually drafted in the second round by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2004, winning the Super Bowl with the franchise the following year. Starling was a standout hooper at Sumter High, though she missed her final season because of an ACL tear. She then went to USC Upstate and blossomed. She was inducted into the college's athletic hall in 2022, averaging a double-double as a senior and finishing fifth in the nation in rebounds. Starling went on to play professionally overseas, primarily in Finland, Brazil and Belgium. Sumter High celebrates 5 new members of athletic hall of fame From left, Ricardo Colclough, Brittany Lee (Starling), Sumter High Principal Anamaria Sandor, Matt Price, Brooks Shumake and Carl Baker Jr. pose with the newest plaque for the SHS Athletic Hall of Fame after their induction on Saturday. ADAM FLASH / THE SUMTER ITEM Posted Wednesday, December 18, 2024 6:00 am By TIM LEIBLE tim@theitem.com The Sumter High Athletic Hall of Fame inducted five new members on Saturday with a night filled with both emotion and nostalgia. The inductees ranged across three sports, as Brittany Lee (Starling) was recognized for her illustrious basketball career, Carl Baker Jr. joined on the back of a sensational career on the football field and diamond, Ricardo Colclough enters after a Super Bowl-winning football career, and both Matt Price and Brooks Shumake enter after leading the Gamecocks to their first state championship in baseball amid incredible careers as a player and coach. Lee's high school career was cut short due to an ACL injury, but she more than made up for lost time in the years that followed. She averaged a double-double as a junior at Sumter High before missing her entire senior year. Luckily, she signed her letter of intent days before the injury. She went on to have a stellar career at USC Upstate, finishing her career with 1,533 points and 1,119 rebounds on her way to their hall of fame in 2022. Lee followed a strong collegiate career with a professional career that took her to Italy and France to play for Team Cameroon in the Olympic Qualifying Tournament before pro stops in Belgium, Finland and Spain. Her illustrious career was all sparked by her injury at Sumter High and the lessons she learned as she watched from the sidelines. "I don't remember much about it other than being bratty and crying after every single game," Lee joked. "My journey made me who I am. My journey allowed me to live in, play in and visit the most beautiful countries. My journey led me to meeting some of the most amazing people from all cultures and walks of life. My journey led me to meet the love of my life. My journey gave me my beautiful son. And my journey has blessed me with the opportunity to pour into the next generation at my alma mater." Now Lee is back where everything began, at Sumter High. She serves as an assistant for the girls basketball team under Jeff Schaffer, coaching alongside her high school coach, Chris Vandevander. Baker Jr. was a star wide receiver on the football team and outfielder on the baseball team. He was introduced at the hall of fame induction by Keith West, who served as an assistant coach as Baker Jr. and the Gamecocks made a spectacular run to the 1992 state championship against Gaffney. West recounted drawing up a play the night before that Baker Jr. took into the end zone for a touchdown. He went on to play football at Clemson before being sidelined by a knee injury. As Baker Jr. spoke to the crowd on Saturday, he spoke more about the man after whom he was named, long-time Sumter High coach and Class of 2023 athletic hall of fame inductee Carl Baker Sr. "To be honored today, it's very special to me. For me, honors like this, generally, are not about the person being honored. It's more about the people in your life that helped you get to this point," Baker Jr. said, thanking fellow 2023 inductee Coley White, former Sumter P-15's coach Wallie Jones, former SHS coaches Tom Lewis and Mark Clifford, athletic trainer Gary Nelson and many more. "I really want to speak about the most influential person in my life. He was a teacher here for a long time, and being the child of a teacher - a high school teacher - who is your coach, your dad, he's in the gym, he's got your same name; it's hard to hide. Somebody just said to me tonight, 'Carl, you were the greatest student.' I had no choice but to be a good student. That's what he taught me, it was going to be no other way. "I understand now, though, that when you're 14, when you're 15, sometimes you don't see the world or understand the world as clearly as you think you do. I really appreciated everything you've done for me." The Bakers are core figures in Sumter High's history going all the way back to the beginning. "I saw this place being built," Baker Jr. recalled. "I would run from the bus area all the way down the halls before there were even doors, before there were windows, before the locker room. I would dribble a ball all the way down here." Many lives at Sumter High were changed by the Bakers, whether it was by the coaching or teaching of the father or the incredible playing of the son. Seeing the pair be inducted in consecutive years was special. The pair shared a photo by Baker Jr.'s new plaque, with senior donning a Santa hat just before the holidays. "I've seen so many people publicly honor my dad over the years to tell him thank you, to tell him they appreciate everything he's done, tell him that they loved him. So, when Keith called me this summer and told me I was getting inducted into the high school hall of fame, the Lord put it in my heart that this was going to be my opportunity to publicly say all of the things that I have heard other people say about my dad to him and about him. "So I want to say, Dad, Coach Baker, thank you for being a father to me. It wasn't until I had my own child that I finally understand what being a father really meant. Thank you for sacrificing part of your life to provide for our family. Thank you for never telling me what I wanted to hear but always telling me what I needed to hear. Thank you for taking care of my mom. You're a good man. You have been the same man at home to our family as you have been to other people at this high school and in this community. "As far as I'm concerned, tonight, they have officially put you in this hall of fame twice for all that you have done. I'm proud to be Carl Baker Jr. I am truly humbled." Baker Jr. was followed by Colclough, a stellar defensive back, receiver and kick returner at Sumter High in the late 1990s who eventually found a collegiate home at Kilgore College. After earning Junior College All-American honors, he transferred to Tusculum College, a Division II program in Greenville, Tennessee, where he put together another All-American season before being drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the second round. Colclough went on to win a Super Bowl ring with the Steelers with a win over the Seattle Seahawks in 2006. Colclough's attention was also focused mainly on his sources of inspiration on his journey through life. "God is good, and all the time He's good just by me standing here," Colclough said. "I think back over the years of walking these halls, all of the work that was put in, being a hard head sometimes and doing things your way. You never foresee where you can be, but God always has a plan; you just don't know what it is. You just have to keep taking it one day at a time, one step at a time. "I want to give thanks to Dexter (Davis, former Clemson and NFL defensive back) and Coach West; you guys set the bar. Coach West, you brought in a state championship. Dexter, you went on to do great things, and you were a guy that, as I came up, that I idolized and wanted to be like and ultimately wanted to get to that level. I never really thought that I would get there, just for the simple fact of what was going on around me. I just knew that I wanted to get out, and my outlet was sports I've always had a village of people around me, seeing light in me that I didn't see in myself. I think that's portrayed here tonight." The final two inductees were a fitting pair. Shumake ended up introducing his former star pitcher during the ceremony. Together, the pair brought Sumter High its first baseball state championship in 2006. Both went on to have incredible careers at Sumter High and beyond. "I'm about to get inducted into the hall of fame myself, and I'm sitting up here thanking him for helping me get in," Shumake said. "So, it's kinda special for me. "I'm glad we were able to cash in one state championship with him. It would've been bad if I couldn't," the former SHS coach added with a chuckle. After three consecutive all-state seasons at Sumter High, Price became the shutdown closer at the University of South Carolina, leading the Gamecocks to three consecutive College World Series trips, winning the first two. He set the school and SEC records for career saves with 43 and struck out 267 batters. Price finished his USC career with an ERA of 2.76 and played a major role in leading both of his alma maters to their first national championships. He played for a third CWS with a former high school teammate, Jordan Montgomery, who was inducted to the SHS hall last December. He was eventually drafted by the Baltimore Orioles before injuries ended his career. "I want to thank everybody that's here today. Without everybody being here, I wouldn't be here," said Price, who is now a police officer in his hometown. "My family, of course, my mom and dad, the people who have coached me along the way, Brooks Joe Norris. My dad taught me until I got to Sumter High, but Joe Norris took me the rest of the way. We call him the pitching guru for a reason." But before Montgomery joined Price at USC, the southpaw was teaming up with Shumake to deliver Sumter High's second state title in 2011. Shumake made a two-year stop at White Knoll after that title but returned to the Gamecocks to claim a third state title in 2014. Shumake won 389 games at Sumter High after an excellent collegiate career as a player at Clemson before a four-year career in the minor leagues. "It really doesn't happen without the people around you," Shumake said. "It's an us award, for me. It's about us; it has to be. I'd like to thank God for having favor with our baseball program, having favor with every person that's been here tonight. "I remember coming here and seeing the banners in the gym. Anyone who's coached here goes in and looks at those banners, and you say, 'I wonder if I can get one of those. I want one of those banners in the gym with a state championship on it.' We ended up getting three of them put up there, so I'm proud of our guys. "I think it's a testament to what some great young men and coaches can accomplish from hustling to practice, to enjoy the game and develop some skills to be able to win a lot of games and a few state championships. We enjoyed the grind and challenge to get better each day." This was the second year Sumter High inducted a new class after an 11-year hiatus. The 2023 class included Nelson, White, Baker Sr., Montgomery, Rod McDowell, Pressley Harvin III, Shawna Waters and Greg Blanding. [1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7] | |
| Occupation | selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers by the second round of the 2004 draft - was signed by the Panthers as an unrestricted free agent during the offseason (2008) [5] | |
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