Harlan Frye, a man with deep roots within the Aggie Family, enters his sixth season as North Carolina A&T's volunteer director of basketball operations
Frye spent 16 years working in Raleigh. Frye is responsible for handling the Aggies basketball operations, which includes coordinating travel and putting together practice and travel schedules. Before living in Raleigh, Frye spent three years as the human resources representative at Perdue Farms in Accomac, Va.
He coordinated personnel policies and activities, while working in an advisory role. In the business world, Frye has also worked as an assistant personnel manager at Burlington
Industries in Mooresville, N.C., where he was responsible for all personnel matters, including employee relations, labor turnover, benefits, employee safety and affirmative action practices.
In 1984, he was a business analyst for TRW Space and Technology Group in Redondo Beach, Calif. Frye also has a significant basketball background. He starred at Grimsley High School in Greensboro from 1977- 79. Frye, who played point guard, led the Whirlies to the Class 4A state championship game in 1978, where they lost to Rocky Mount High led by future NBA player Buck Williams.
During his senior season in 1979, the Whirlies went 27-2, losing to Page in the state playoffs. Frye also led Grimsley to two Little Four Championships and two conference championships. For his efforts at Grimsley, Frye earned an athletic scholarship to Howard University.
Frye spent one season at Howard before transferring to N.C. A&T in 1981, where he played under legendary N.C. A&T men's basketball coach Don Corbett. Frye was a part of three of the Aggies record-setting eight straight MEAC Tournament Championships. In two of those seasons, the Aggies played in the NCAA Tournament.
After leaving N.C. A&T, Frye became the eighth-grade head basketball coach at Greensboro Day School in 1984. Frye also worked as assistant coach at Dudley, where he helped the Panthers win the Little Four Championship. Frye left Greensboro to take an assistant basketball coaching position at West Los Angeles Junior College.
While in California, Frye also worked as the director of the basketball program at the Gardena, California YMCA. He coached all-star teams, refereed city league games in the Los Angeles area and helped his six-foot-and-under basketball team to a third place finish in the Los Angeles County basketball tournament in 1986. Frye returned to North Carolina in 1988, where he worked at the Bryan Adrian Basketball Camps, the Mooresville City youth coach and the Statesville, N.C., men's basketball league.
In 1990, he became an assistant basketball coach at Pocomoke City High. Pocomoke was the Class 1A state runner-up in Maryland in 1992 and a state semifinalist in 1993. Recently, Frye has refereed and coached in the city of Raleigh Adult and Youth Basketball Leagues. From 2004-06 he worked as an assistant basketball coach at Enloe High School in Raleigh. During the same span he was the head coach of an AAU program in Raleigh, where his team qualified for the AAU National Championship three consecutive years.
Frye is a 1984 graduate of North Carolina A&T State University with a B.S., degree in business administration. His mother, Shirley Frye, used to be the special assistant to the Chancellor at N.C. A&T. Frye's father, Henry Frye holds the distinction of being the first black justice to serve on the North Carolina Supreme Court.
