PEMBROKE – Student-athletes representing five different sports, including one that went on to make a name for himself as a legendary high school football and baseball coach in nearby Hope Mills, will be officially inducted into the UNC Pembroke Athletics Hall of Fame as part of Homecoming Week in late October, athletics department officials announced Tuesday.
 
Former baseball player Randy Ledford, who turned in a stellar playing career in Pembroke before eventually coaching Fayetteville's South View High School to state championships in both baseball and football, will join basketball players Lindsay Bartholf and Damon Green, track & field's Sam Council and football's Caylon Hann in comprising UNCP's 42^nd Athletics Hall of Fame class.
 
The 2021 Athletics Hall of Fame ceremony, which will recognize the 41^st Hall of Fame class as well, is scheduled to take place at 6 p.m. on October 22 in the University Center Annex. Ticket information will be announced at a later date.
 
Members of the 2021 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.
 
Bartholf played in 104 games over her illustrious collegiate career, averaging 10.9 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.8 assists per contest, and exited Pembroke with 1,129 career points to cement herself among the most prolific scorers in program history. Her career in the Black & Gold was highlighted by a junior campaign that watched her earn first team All-Peach Belt Conference honors after tallying 14.5 points per game, including a school record 71 3-pointers and a 44.4 percent shooting rate from the perimeter as well. She currently ranks 18^th on UNCP's all-time scoring list, and still holds program records for both single-season (71) and career (190) 3-point field goals made.
 
A six-time All-Carolinas Conference honoree, Council earned all-America accolades in both the 400-meter Run and again as a member of the Mile Relay squad under legendary head coach Ed Crain in 1979. An NAIA All-District performer as well, Council played a key role in then-Pembroke State's run to four NAIA district titles, three Carolinas Conference crowns and a trio of top-10 finishes at the NAIA Championships, including a third-place showing in 1979. He is still the proud owner of a 33-year-old school record in the 400-meter Run, but can still see his name etched in the record book as a member of a pair of relay squads as well – the 4x400-meter Relay and the Mile Relay.
 
An NAIA All-America pick in 1990-91, Green currently ranks 11^th on the men's basketball program's all-time scoring list with 1,555 career points. The Fayetteville product logged time in 115 games over his career on the hardwood and registered 13.2 points, 5.2 rebounds and 4.3 assists, while shooting 48.7 percent from the field, including a deadly 42.6 percent success rate from beyond the 3-point arch. His senior campaign in 1990-91 also saw him pick up his second-straight All-Carolinas Conference nod after turning in 16.6 points, 5.6 rebounds and 4.5 assists, including a school-record 83 3-pointers (196 attempts). Green was a key player on four Dan Kenney-coached squads that amassed 72 victories from 1988-91, including a 27-5 mark in Green's senior campaign.
 
Hann, who played his first two seasons at Bethune-Cookman, earned the UNCP football program's first all-America laurels in 2008 after ranking third nationally with seven interceptions, while also posting 51 tackles (five tackles for loss) and 10 pass break-ups. The Homestead, Fla., native logged playing time in 30 career games for the Black & Gold, and wrapped up his career with 122 tackles, a program-best 13 interceptions and 24 pass break-ups. A lethal return man as well, Hann currently ranks third all-time in program annals with a 13.67 yard average on 27 career punt returns, and scored a pair of punt return touchdowns over his career, including a 64-yard jaunt against Concord as a sophomore. He was a two-time preseason all-America pick as well.
 
A legendary high school baseball and football coach at Fayetteville's South View High School, Ledford began his athletic prowess on the baseball diamond in Pembroke where he was a two-time all-district and 1975 all-America selection under Hall of Fame head coach Harold Ellen. Ledford posted a team-best runs batted in total as both a junior and a senior in Pembroke, while also leading the Braves in home runs during the 1975 campaign as well. Pembroke State registered nearly 90 wins over Ledford's collegiate career, as well as a pair of NAIA district championships and an appearance in the 1973 NAIA World Series.