John Smith, who won two state wrestling championships during an outstanding career at Del City (Oklahoma) High School and later won two Olympic gold medals is on the list of 11 individuals selected for induction into the 2004 class of the National High School Hall of Fame.    Among the other top stars in the class are: Ray Guy, who excelled in four sports at Thomson (Georgia) High School in the late 1960s and later became one of the top punters in National Football League history; Gerry Faust, highly successful football coach at Archbishop Moeller High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, who later coached on the college level at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Akron; and Debbie Meyer, who won three gold medals in swimming at the 1968 Olympic Games while a 16-year-old high school student at Rio Americano High School in Sacramento, California.     Another  outstanding former high school athletes chosen for the 2004 class is Joyce Walker, one of the top basketball players in Washington history during her career at Garfield High School in Seattle,     High school coaches joining Faust in the 2004 class are Joe Newton, who has won 23 state cross country championships at York High School in Elmhurst, Illinois; Elbert "Lum" Wright, winningest football coach in Mississippi high school history and ninth nationally all-time; and Dick Katte, who has the most basketball-coaching victories in Colorado high school history during his legendary career at Denver Christian High School.    These four former high school athletes and four coaches will join one contest official, one administrator and one from the sports-medicine field at the July 5 induction ceremony in San Diego, California, site of the National Federation of State High School Associations' (NFHS) 85th annual Summer Meeting.    This class is the 22nd group to be inducted in the Hall of Fame, which was started in 1982 by the NFHS to honor high school athletes, coaches, contest officials, administrators, fine arts coaches/directors and others for their extraordinary achievements and accomplishments in high school athletics. This year's class increases the number in the Hall of Fame to 301.    The remaining three individuals selected for the 2004 class include Mike Webb, a basketball, baseball and football official from West Virginia; Dr. Thad Stanford, an orthopedic surgeon from Salem, Oregon, who has been a pioneer in the sports medicine field at the high school level; and Claudia Dodson, who served 30 years on the staff of the Virginia High School League and expanded opportunities for girls in athletics at the state and national levels.    The 11 individuals were chosen for the National High School Hall of Fame after a two-level selection process involving a screening committee composed of active high school administrators, coaches and officials, and a final selection committee composed of coaches, officials, former athletes, state association officials, media representatives and educational leaders. Nominations were made through member state high school athletic/activity associations.    BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION    John Smith was one of the top wrestlers in Oklahoma history during his career at Del City High School in the early 1980s. He was undefeated in his junior and senior seasons, winning 56 matches and two state titles. He was selected the tournament's outstanding wrestler as a senior. As a ninth-grader, Smith was state runner-up and finished with a 17-2 record, and he followed that with a 32-3 mark as a sophomore and a third-place finish in the state tournament. His overall high school record was 105 victories and only 5 losses.     Smith's success continued at Oklahoma State University and on the international scene. At Oklahoma State, Smith compiled a 154-7-2 record, including a 90-match winning streak that began early in his junior season and ran through his senior year. He won two NCAA wrestling titles and three Big Eight championships.    On the international scene, Smith was a six-time world champion in freestyle wrestling, the most by any American. These six world titles included championships at the 1988 and 1992 U.S. Olympic Games. He also holds titles at World Cup, Pan American and Goodwill Games competition. Perhaps even more amazing is that these six titles were consecutive, so from 1987 to 1992, Smith was the best in the world. His career freestyle record was an impressive 177-8.    Smith's achievements at the high school, college and international levels of amateur wrestling helped promote and strengthen the sport in the United States. He became the first wrestler to win the Sullivan Award from the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), and he also was the first U.S. wrestler to win the FILA wrestler of the year award, given annually to the best wrestler in the world, as well as the World Trophy, given to the world's top amateur athlete.    After finishing his competitive athletic career in the early 1990s, Smith turned his energies to coaching. In 12 years as head wrestling coach at his alma mater, Oklahoma State University, Smith has won more than 170 matches, including one NCAA championship, and has produced 49 all-Americans and 12 NCAA champions. In 2000, Smith was selected to lead the Olympic freestyle team to Sydney, Australia.    At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Smith was chosen one of the 100 greatest Olympians of all-time. The following year he was inducted in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. In addition, the fieldhouse at Del City High School is named in his honor with a life-size bronze statue inside the building.    Click here for bios of other inductees