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Comgratulations to Coach Lingerfelt !!!

Beth Ruggles and Rob Lingerfelt will be the two newest members of the East Burke High Sports Hall of Fame. Both former Cavalier standout athletes of the 1980s will be inducted Friday night at halftime of the EB home varsity basketball contest versus South Iredell.

Ruggles was named all-conference in tennis during the 1981, ’82 and ’83 seasons, all-conference in track in 1982, ’83 and ’84 and all-conference in cross country in ’82 and ’83 — when she was the individual conference champ both years. In fact, in 1983, Ruggles was also regional and state champion for cross country.

In track, she was both the conference’s 1600 and 3200 meter champion in ’83 and ’84, and she received the school’s Ray Childers' Student-Athlete Award in 1984.

Following graduation, Ruggles attended Appalachian State where she was Southern Conference cross country champion in 1985 and again in ’87. In 1988, she was the inaugural women’s SoCon 3000 and 5000 meter champion in track. Ruggles was later inducted into the ASU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2003.

Lingerfelt was a four-sport letterman during his time in Icard. In football, he played JV in 1983 and moved his way up to varsity by the next year. Then in ’85, Lingerfelt was named all-conference, all-region and all-state for a Cavalier co-conference championship squad. He also represented the North Carolina team in the Shrine Bowl that fall.

In wrestling. Lingerfelt was a ’84 sectional champion who made regionals. And in ’85, he repeated as sectional champ and finished second at regionals and third at state for his weight class. He also played three years of varsity baseball and track, but focused on football after EBHS, when he attended Wake Forest.

As a Demon Deacon, he started three years, was voted as a preseason All-ACC team member before his senior campaign and was named the team’s Lineman of the Year on two occasions.