Vincent Harvell                     Harvell said he was really surprised by the honor. He and four other inductees were honored at a breakfast during Lambuth’s Homecoming 2006 activities.

He attended McGavock High School in Nashville, which he said at the time was the largest high school in the state, and was proud to be on the basketball team that had lots of good players from which to draw. Although he had played on the team the previous three years, in his senior year he was unsure whether to try out for the team. But he did, and became the sixth man on the team.          
Lambuth scouts recruited him, although, he said, they were there to look at another player.

He played under Coach Charles Bray at Lambuth all four years, and received All-Conference honors and MVP in his senior year, playing all three positions, center, forward, and guard. His 6’5” frame led him to score an average over the four years of 15.9 points and 9 rebounds a game.

Harvell earned a degree in accounting while at Lambuth which eventually led him to Haywood County Schools four years ago. Before coming to the Haywood County School System, he worked in the Lauderdale County School System, and for the state department of education as a fiscal consultant for schools in the Southwest District.

“I actually have a lot of ties to Brownsville,” Harvell said. His roommate was Terry Smith of Brownsville, and he played with David Delk one year at Lambuth and with Ricky Delk for three years. And Leslie Delk introduced him to his wife, Marie Morton Harvell, also from Brownsville. The couple lives in Jackson, but they attend church at St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Brownsville. They have two daughters, one is a sophomore at Austin Peay and the other is a junior at Jackson Central-Merry, and both are basketball players.

Harvell says he is humbled by being selected for the Lambuth University Sports Hall of Fame. “I never thought about this happening,” he said. “It is a great honor.”