Wake Forest-Rolesville appoints Lucas
Ex-player to lead boys basketball
Published: Sat, Aug. 30, 2008 12:30AM
Modified Sat, Aug. 30, 2008 03:10AM
E-Mail
Print
tool name
closeWake Forest-Rolesville has named former football and basketball standout Reggie Lucas as its head boys varsity basketball coach.
Lucas succeeds Chuck Hess, who has retired.
"I am honored and excited to have this opportunity," Lucas said. "This is a dream come true for me."
More Sports
Lucas played for famed WF-R boys basketball coach Larry Lindsay and helped lead the Cougars into the regional playoffs as a junior and senior. He also started at quarterback on the football team.
He played cornerback at Lenoir-Rhyne and returned to Wake Forest to become a teacher.
He coached football, basketball and track at Wake Forest-Rolesville Middle before moving to the high school in 2001 as a football assistant for current Cougar coach Earl Smith.
He is WF-R's head track coach and the defensive coordinator for the Cougars' football team.
"I have worked with him on the football staff for several years and I know of no better young coach," said coaching veteran Don Murry, who has been named as athletic director.
"He is as good a coach as I have ever worked with. He demands respect, and he demands perfection. He has a tremendous rapport with the kids."
Murry is a former head football coach at Oxford Webb and Asheboro and coached with Ed Emory at East Carolina.
He has been a football assistant coach at Wake Forest since 2001.
Get it all with convenient home delivery of The News & Observer.
The News & Observer is pleased to be able to offer its users the opportunity to make comments and hold conversations online. However, the interactive nature of the internet makes it impracticable for our staff to monitor each and every posting.
Since The News & Observer does not control user submitted statements, we cannot promise that readers will not occasionally find offensive or inaccurate comments posted on our website. In addition, we remind anyone interested in making an online comment that responsibility for statements posted lies with the person submitting the comment, not The News and Observer.
If you find a comment offensive, clicking on the exclamation icon will flag the comment for review by the administrators, we are counting on the good judgment of all our readers to help us.
