S.C. State SID Bill Hamilton receives Helms Award

ORANGEBURG, South Carolina -- Bill Hamilton, in his 39th year as sports information director at South Carolina State University, was among four persons honored for contributions to sports in the Palmetto State by the South Carolina Athletics Hall of Fame during its annual banquet and induction ceremony on Monday.

Hamilton received the Herman Helms Media Excellence Award.

The Baltimore, Maryland, native, who grew up in Chesterfield, is the only full-time sports information director in the university’s history, having begun his career at S.C. State – his alma mater – in 1973. He has earned numerous professional awards during his career and is enshrined in the S.C. State, MEAC and CoSIDA halls of fame.

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