MARY LOUISE LEDBETTER –
PLAYER-COACH-TEACHER

Few have given back to their school more than Mary Louise. As a player she was in the era of 3 on offense and 3 on defense and admits the game wasn’t exciting. In college, after a degree in Biology, with minors in Chemistry and Physical Education, she heeded the call from Supt. Buckner to teach and coach at Lenoir City High. Now she was teaching, coaching and sponsoring the Junior Class and sponsoring the cheerleaders (for 22 years) and doing the State Attendance registers. She became Attendance Supervisor in 1986 until she retired in 1990. She didn’t stay retired long, as the nest year, she returned to teach part-time, assist the new Attendance Supervisor and help in any other way she was called on. If the team uniforms needed washing, she did it – if she was needed to work in the concession stand at the games, she did it—if money was needed to be raised for a school project she raised it. This is 2006 and she is still doing it. From 1949 and counting, she continues to give back to her school. She was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2006.