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Ragsdale High School
Athletic Booster Club
Coach Maness has been the head coach at RHS, his home school, for 12+ seasons. At Ragsdale, Coach Maness played 3 varsity seasons at 3B. Now, he works with infielders. In college, Coach Maness played as a three- year starter at Barton College under head Coach Todd Wilkinson. Coach Maness, since coming back to Ragsdale, has a career record of 226-91. Ragsdale has won 5 conference titles in the last 7 seasons, including the last two. In 2006, Ragsdale played for its first state title since 1972.
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A graduate of Elon University, Coach Tommy Norwood has been teaching for 30 years. He has been the head football coach at Ragsdale for 13 years and his teams have won seven conference championships.
Coach Gore is a graduate of Appalachian State University and began her teaching/coaching career at Western Guilford. She has been at Ragsdale since 1988 and has coached JV and Varsity Basketball, Varsity Softball ('88 to '95) and has been the Varsity Volleyball coach since 1995. Coach Gore's Volleyball teams have only missed the playoffs twice since 1995, have won four conference championships and have made the final eight in the state playoffs twice. Her husband Keith is also a teacher/coach (South Stokes High School) and they have two sons, Jason and Ryan.
Graduate of Catawba College BA-’84, Appalachian State MA-’87. This coming year will be his 16th year at Ragsdale and 27th year overall. I coached at High Point Central and won 2 team state championships-1994 and we have won 3 team state championships here at Ragsdale-1997, 2004, 2005. We have had 19 individual state champions here since arriving in 1995.
Craig Shoemaker enters his 6th season as the Head Coach at Ragsdale High School. Under Coach Shoemaker, the Tigers have had three straight 20+ win seasons (07, 08 & 09) and won the Mid-Piedmont Conference Championship in 2007-08 and conference and tournament champions 2008-09. A native of Northern Virginia, he began his coaching career in North Carolina at Lowes Grove Middle School in Durham. During his 12 years there, he coached three sports, winning several championships in basketball and soccer. Shoemaker then took his first high school basketball coaching job at St. David’s School in 2002, in Raleigh. In his second year at St. David’s lead his team to the EPIC Conference and Tournament Championships and were ranked 4th in the state.
Coach Shoemaker and his wife, Suzanne, have four children Andrew (15), Erin (12), and twin boys Cade and Troy (5). Coach Shoemaker played basketball for and graduated from Bridgewater College, Va. (’90).
From Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada, Graduated and played college football at St. Francis Xavier University. Coach Pitts has been teaching Social Studies for 9 years and this his my fifth year at Ragsdale. He is the Head Boys Track Coach and Assistant Football Coach and has been part been of 2005, 2007, and 2009 Track conference Championship teams and 2008 and 2009 Football conference Championship teams. His wife, Mary and he have a daughter, Payton
Coach Braswell graduated from Guilford College in 1987 & played soccer there for 4 years. This is his 22nd year coaching boys/girls soccer here at Ragsdale earning numerous conference titles for both girls & boys. State Championships : boys – 1991, 1993, & 1995. Runners up in 1994. Girls- 1994, 1996, 1999, & 2005.
A graduate of the Florida Institute of Technology, Coach Turner has 25 years of coaching experience with the last nine at Ragsdale. He has been the coach of girl's golf the since 2006 and the team has been Conference Champs four times and Regional Champions three times. During his time at Ragsdale, Coach Turner has also coached the swim team and boy's golf team and been an assistant coach for boy's JV basketball.
Coach Harmon is a graduate of UNC-Greensboro, Bachelor's in Physical Education, and NC A&T, Master's in Adapted Physical Education. She has been Head Coach of Men's Tennis for two years (Conference Champs in both years) and is the Assistant Coach of cross country and previously was the JV Girl's basketball coach. Coach Harmon has spent all six years of her teaching career at Ragsdale.
Graduate of UNC - Chapel Hill. Coach Carroll has been teaching for four years, all at Ragsdale. In addition to his duties as Head Swimming Coach, Coach Carroll is also the Assistant Volleyball Coach at Ragsdale. The men's swim team were the 2009-2010 regular season Conference Champions.
Coach Popek has been at Ragsdale for 11 years. She has been the Head Cross Country Coach for the past 5 years and Head Coach of Girl's Track for 3 years. Her teams have won multiple Conference Championships and her Girl's track team has been State Champions three times. Coach Popek is a graduate of DePaul University and is a certifed USATF coach and is also National Federation of State High Schools Associations Track and Field certified.