Coaches

Quitman Sullins

Year Inducted: 1991

Category: Coaches

Schools / Organizations:
(Park Ridge) Maine South High School
Northwestern University

Biography: Quitman Sullins coached for more than 23 years, seven as head coach at Maine South High School in Park Ridge.  In those seven seasons, his record ws 140-52. He won three conference championships. Sullins is probably most remembered at Maine South for his 1978-79 team which went 31-1. Many consider that team as one of the finest coached teams to ever appear in Champaign.  Winning the IHSA Class AA state championship with victories over more talent-laden teams as Chicago DeLaSalle High School and Quincy High School represented one of the most remarkable and surprising achievements in state tourney history. In 1982, Sullins started a tenure as assistant basketball coach at Northwestern University under Rich Falk and Bill Foster. Records and championships aside, many young coaches have made special trips to meet and talk with Sullins who was held in absolute highest regard as a statistician and strategist. Sullins directed the original AFBE camps in New York , Chicago and Los Angeles. Sullins was also director of the original Nike All-American Camp at Princeton University besides serving as director of Rich Falk and Bill Foster Basketball Camps. Sullins’ record and achievements, the tremendous respect he had from so many coaches familiar with his work, many of whom are held in the highest regard themselves, and the attention shown him by those responsible for some of the bigger name basketball camps in America supports Quitman Sullins as a worthy member of the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.  Quitman Sullins died on May 10, 2019 at the age of 84.