Enloe Swimming Coach Named 2009 Toby Webb Award Winner
April 29, 2009 - Vickie Peoples of Enloe High School will be presented the fourth annual Toby Webb Coach of the Year Award given by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association.Peoples has put together a stellar career as a teacher and one of the state’s top swimming and diving coaches. She has coached the sport for both men and women at Enloe for 26 years and has amassed a tremendous record. Her men’s team earned nine consecutive state championships at one stretch and her teams have won a combined 28 conference championships and 19 Eastern Regional crowns.
In addition, for years she has directed both regional and state championship swimming and diving meets for the NCHSAA and has earned a number of recognitions. The City of Raleigh designed May 1, 2007, as Enloe Swimming and Diving Day in her honor.
Peoples and co-recipient Norman Trzaskoma of Winston-Salem R.J. Reynolds High School will be recognized at the NCHSAA’s Annual Meeting on May 7 at the Smith Center on the campus of the University of North Carolina.
The Webb Award is made possible through the generosity of gifts from individuals and companies through the NCHSAA Endowment and annually recognizes an outstanding male and female coach. To be eligible for the award, a coach must be nominated by school personnel at the NCHSAA member school where he or she coaches, to have coached for a minimum of 10 years, and have made major contributions to the success of high school athletics at the school, in the community and beyond.
The award is in honor of Toby Webb, a member of the NCHSAA Hall of Fame who was an outstanding coach as well as a principal and superintendent. He helped turn Albemarle into a football power and posted a brilliant 103-18-6 mark as a head coach there.
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