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MONTGOMERY: Alabama High School Athletic Association announced Monday Tonya Tice Peoples has been hired in a position on the associations' executive staff.
The hiring was announced by AHSAA Executive Director Heath Harmon in a new release.
Peoples is well known for her greatness as a basketball player in the AHSAA.
In 1988, known as Tice, the point guard hit a shot as time ran out to give Pell City the 5A state championship against Hartselle with the game being played at Calhoun Community College in Decatur.
Coaching Tice and Pell City was Larry Slater, who in two years would go on and become the head coach at Wallace State Community College.
The game was tremendous in an overflow crowd at Carlton Kelley Gymnasium. Also the fact for Hartselle, a standout player named Jeaniece Slater was playing against her father.
That championship game was seen by yours truly on an assignment for a local publication.
Tice is associated with a family of athletic greatness. Her father Mike Tice took over football at Pell City in 1987 with Tonya just a freshman in the sport.
She had a younger sister Amanda that would play AAU girls basketball for yours truly with North Central Alabama.
Amanda was on the 1990 team that finished in the Top 4 of the Tampa Invitational Tournament, playing in the event for a 3rd consecutive year.
Tice left Pell City for Hamilton as did her family. She was the PG for Hamilton when the Lady Aggies won the 1990 Class 5A championship.
Her coach was Wanda Gilliland who would later become recognized for her role as an assistant director with the AHSAA.
Tice is 4th all time in AHSAA basketball history in points scored with 2,567. She holds the all time state assist record with 1,626.
She will officially report to the AHSAA August 21, the day fall sports officially begins the new season.
Tice Peoples had been working as a career counselor and Title IX coordinator for the Muscle Shoals School System before accepting the position to be on the staff of the AHSAA.
Photo of Tonya Tice Peoples.
Photo courtesy of the AHSAA.
