{"id":22071,"date":"2024-07-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/lynchburg-va\/?p=22071"},"modified":"2024-07-23T16:56:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T16:56:14","slug":"donnie-wilkerson-meet-mr-altavista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/lynchburg-va\/donnie-wilkerson-meet-mr-altavista\/","title":{"rendered":"Donnie Wilkerson: Meet Mr. Altavista"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>W<\/strong><strong>ITH A <\/strong>broken neck, fractured ribs, two collapsed lungs, and unconscious \u2014 that\u2019s how a stricken community found a beloved 71-year-old man who had become a staple and role model for many. Some call him a legend. Others call him \u201cMr. Altavista.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Altavista, a small town just over 25 miles south of Lynchburg, is where Donnie Wilkerson was born in 1951, spending most of his life with his wife of 45 years, Nancy. Together, they have two daughters and three grandchildren.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Growing up, Wilkerson attended Altavista High School, where he made sports a way of life, playing football in the fall and basketball in the winter. But he claimed running as his real love. Through sports, he met mentors who invested in him and instilled life-changing greatness.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had some coaches that helped me believe in myself,\u201d Wilkerson expressed. \u201cAnd when I went to college, I knew that I wanted to return the same type of feeling that I got from my coaches.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon graduation, the Altavista native did just that, returning to his hometown to teach in 1973 and finding himself at Campbell County Technical Center. There, he helped kids obtain jobs through an apprenticeship program as a coordinator for\u00a0Campbell County Public Schools. For 27 years, he registered students across the county and administered performance grades. He also met employers and developed programs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the while, he adhered to his true calling of coaching. Aligning with his interests as a kid, Wilkerson has been coaching football, basketball, cross-country, and track at Altavista High School. He loves biking and running with the cross-country team during training sessions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/lynchburg-va\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/07\/2-6-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/lynchburg-va\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/07\/2-6-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/lynchburg-va\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/07\/2-6-980x653.png 980w, https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/lynchburg-va\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/07\/2-6-480x320.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe \u2014 my head coach and I in cross-country \u2014 the question was asked over the 27 years that we\u2019ve been coaching cross-country, how many runners have we had,\u00a0and we totaled it up,\u201d Wilkerson said. \u201cIn 27 years that we\u2019ve been coaching, there was over a thousand runners that we have had on our cross-country team.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilkerson\u2019s impact and love for people have been felt by those students and others, many of whom would simply describe the coach as \u201cjust a good person.\u201d His character bleeds into volunteering, assisting with 5Ks, and many other running events in Altavista.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilkerson also ran with a gang \u2014 no, not that kind of gang. He volunteered with others to move chained sideline markers during Altavista\u2019s home football games. They called themselves the \u201cchain gang.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although he coached, Wilkerson never quit competing in sports as an athlete. Road races and triathlons were the norm. He even competed in ultra running. He has participated in all these events for over 35 years, and he retired from competition only a few years ago. He continues to pour into the community through sports and coaching.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s two ways that people sometimes look at it,\u201d Wilkerson said. \u201cSometimes kids, when you\u2019re growing up \u2014 \u2018Oh, I can\u2019t wait to get out of this community. I want to go and do this and that.\u2019 But that was never what I wanted to do. I wanted to come back and be a part of the community and give back to what people gave to me. So here I am \u2014 going to be 73 years old and still helping out where I can and try to make a difference.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/lynchburg-va\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/07\/3-6-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/lynchburg-va\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/07\/3-6-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/lynchburg-va\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/07\/3-6-980x653.png 980w, https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/lynchburg-va\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/07\/3-6-480x320.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One day, though, his whole community helped him. The coach has always had a routine of mountain biking in the afternoon. June 21, 2022, was no different. He did not have brakes on his bike and told his wife, Nancy, he would bike downtown to order some. The trip was a success \u2014 except for one thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t make it home,\u201d Wilkerson said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, Wilkerson never carried a cell phone. Nancy did not find him at the bike shop. Even worse, she discovered he never showed up for a scheduled sports practice. That\u2019s when she knew something was seriously wrong.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy youngest daughter \u2014 we all go to the school, and the head coach\u2019s wife said, \u2018We need to call and report a missing person,\u2019\u201d Nancy recalled.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The community responded. Friends were already looking, but the police placed Wilkerson\u2019s missing status on Facebook. Suddenly, more people from the school, technical center, and community were filling the park, searching for Wilkerson. About seven hours later, they found him down a neighbor\u2019s driveway into the woods, unconscious and severely injured, where he was airlifted to a hospital. To this day, the only thing Wilkerson remembers from the whole ordeal is the words, \u201cWe found him.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what the community means to me,\u201d said Wilkerson, who continues to bike and has his still-bloodied, torn jersey framed on his back porch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that\u2019s what Wilkerson means to his community, who nicknamed him \u201cMr. Altavista.\u201d <strong>GN&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WITH A broken neck, fractured ribs, two collapsed lungs, and unconscious \u2014 that\u2019s how a stricken community found a beloved 71-year-old man who had become a staple and role model for many. Some call him a legend. 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