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After graduating from high school in Brooklyn, New York, Hairston was recruited by Coach Curtis Price to play basketball at WVSU. He played one year on the junior varsity team before joining the baseball team as a walk-on. In baseball, he was a three-year letterman and two-year starter being named to the WVIAC All-Conference team in 1977. Hairston also ran track for the Yellow Jackets in 1978; with the 4x440 relay team he was part of finishing first in the WVIAC outdoor track meet. After graduation, he became a health and physical education teacher and assistant girl’s basketball coach and head baseball coach in Roanoke, Virginia. Hairston is the proud husband to Mary “Missy” Coles Hairston and a loving father to three children and grandfather to six grandchildren.
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