PEMBROKE – Individual student-athletes representing four different sports, as well as the legendary 2004 men's soccer team, will be officially inducted into the UNC Pembroke Athletics Hall of Fame as part of Homecoming Week in mid-October, athletics department officials announced Friday.
 
Larry Rodgers, who served the track & field program as a student-athlete and later as its head coach, will join a host of his former teammates in the fraternity. Former diamond standout Johnny Dial will become the 31st baseball player to be inducted into the Hall, and he will be joined by wrestling's Greg Shealy and women's basketball's Teresa Carl.
 
The 2004 men's soccer team, which rattled off a 16-3-0 record on the way to an appearance in the NCAA Final Four, will be the second team in four years to be added to the Athletics Hall of Fame display in the English E. Jones Center.
 
The date and start time for the 2020 UNCP Athletics Hall of Fame ceremony has yet to be determined, but department officials announced that the event will be held during Spring 2021. Details for the ceremony will be announced at a later date.
 
Members of the 2020 Athletics Hall of Fame committee include Hall of Famers Tom Gardner (basketball) and Melanie (Cobb) Hughes (soccer), Braves Club members Crystal Moore and Jordan Sampson, and Dr. Calvina Ellerbe, an associate professor in the Sociology and Criminal Justice Department.