Vickie Peoples of Enloe High School has been selected for induction into the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame. Peoples is a member of the 23rd group of inductees to join the prestigious hall. She will become one of 125 enshrined.
Peoples was an outstanding high school athlete in Iowa who really made her mark as a coach in North Carolina. Peoples was an Iowa high school state finalist in swimming and diving and then a Big Eight gymnastics champion at Iowa State.
But it is her stellar career as both the men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach at Enloe High from 1982 to 2007 that propelled her to the Hall. Her swimming teams won a total of 10 NCHSAA state championships, with nine of those earned by her men’s teams. The Eagles also captured 18 regional crowns and 27 conference titles under her tutelage. She served as the director of the Eastern Regional in swimming and diving for 20 years.
She was Teacher of the Year at Enloe in the 2004-05 academic year. The City of Raleigh proclaimed May 1, 2007, as Enloe Swimming and Diving Day in her honor.
The new inductees will be honored during special halftime ceremonies at a football game at Kenan Stadium on Saturday, November 14, when North Carolina takes on Miami. The University of North Carolina has designated the day as the 25th annual NCHSAA Day.
The new class will officially be inducted at the special Hall of Fame banquet next spring at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center at the University of North Carolina.