Huntsville-Madison County Athletic Hall of Fame 2025 inductees announced
Retired legendary softball coach Dale Palmer from Sparkman High has been selected among the class of 2025 for induction into the Huntsville-Madison County Athletic Hall of Fame.
MADISON – The Huntsville-Madison County Athletic Hall of Fame announced its inductees for the class of 2025 and the list includes one connected to Bob Jones High and another associated with Sparkman High.
Brian Campe, a 1999 graduate of Bob Jones and a 2018 inductee into the Bob Jones Hall of Fame, is a longtime race engineer and was recently named Technical Director of Legacy Motor Club. He has nearly two decades experience in both NASCAR and IndyCar industries. The Huntsville-Madison native began his professional career as a data acquisition/race engineer at Dale Earnhardt, Inc. in 2002. He then moved to the famed Hendrick Motorsports group where he remained until 2008. After a short stay with JR Motorsports, Campe began a 12-year relationship with Penske racing changing from stock cars to Indy cars. He tenure with Penske included race engineer for the 2015 Indianapolis 500 winner Juan Pablo Montoya.
In 1021, Campe joined Hendrick Motorsports developing into the role of Technical Director.
After retiring in 2021 as head coach of the softball team at Sparkman High, Dale Palmer has lived his life away from the world of competitive softball, but not after being one of the best head coaches in the history of the sport in Alabama. At Sparkman, Palmer posted an overall 1,059-313 record and his teams claimed six State Championships including three consecutive state titles 2012-2014. Palmer’s Lady Senators also picked up state titles in 2006, 2009 and 2016. His squads were also state runner-up four other years.
Palmer was once a softball umpire before becoming a coach in the sport at T.W. Martin High. He came to Sparkman in the school year of 1996-1997 where he remained until calling it quits more than two decades later. He moved from education into the financial world at Hometown Lenders.
