Asheboro adds four teams plus others for Sports Hall of Fame

ASHEBORO — Four different teams and seven individuals will be recognized as part of this fall’s next class for Asheboro High School’s Sports Hall of Fame.

The teams picked are the 1956, 1958 and 1959 boys’ basketball teams along with the 1967 baseball team.

Former standout athletes Elliott Armstrong (football, track and field), Nick Coe (football, wrestling), Lyle Hartgrove (baseball), Emily Hayes (volleyball) and Emmauel Jones (football, basketball) are part of the induction class.

They’ll be joined as inductees by former athletics director and coach Steve Luck, who was an athlete at the school as a student, and longtime athletics volunteer Skip Hurley. Luck retired as AD in 2022.

Armstrong, who went on to play college football and participated in track and field during the early 1990s at Elon and is a member of that university’s Sports Hall of Fame, died in 2019 at age 49.

Coe was an Auburn football standout with his professional career ending in the Canadian Football League in 2022. Hartgrove, 53, played collegiately for East Carolina before spending time professionally in the minor leagues.

Hayes went on to play college volleyball for Elon before spending 18 seasons as volleyball coach at Guilford College, where she became known as Emily Gann and also was an assistant athletics director.

The induction will be held at 6 p.m. Oct. 3 in the gym. That comes prior to a football game vs. Northern Guilford, with the inductees to be honored during an on-field recognition at halftime.