THE OFFICIAL ATHLETICS SITE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA LIONS

    John Bostick was a three-sport standout during his playing days with the Lions from 1952-56. He earned 11 varsity letters at Florence State, with four each in basketball and baseball and three in football. He scored 343 points for a 14.3 average in 1956 and he scored 32 points in a game against Jacksonville State in 1955 for the Lion basketball team. In three seasons as quarterback for the Lions  football squad, he helped take the team to a 21-6-1 record.

A native of Winfield, Ala., Bostick earned his bachelor's degree in 1957 and then served as an officer in the U.S. Army and was head football coach of the Seventh Corps Jayhawks in Germany. Upon his return he entered the high school coaching ranks and compiled a 178-102 record in 10  years of prep coaching, with three years at Sheffield High School and seven years at Gadsden High School. His Gadsden teams earned several trips to the state tournament and finished as the runner-up once.

He then joined C.M. Newton's staff at the University of Alabama as a graduate assistant coach and later coached the Tide freshman team. He served as an assistant at Alabama for 13 seasons and played a key role in the Tide posting five straight seasons with 22 or more wins and winning three Southeastern Conference championships.

Bostick then moved on with Newton to Vanderbilt University, where he served as assistant head coach for eight seasons. In all he spent 32 years as a coach on either the high school or collegiate level. He then moved on to the University of Kentucky in 1989 and served as the Assistant Director of Athletics/Compliance at the time of his induction.