- Jerry Moore
Jerry Moore is the current head football coach at Appalachian State University, filling the position since 1989. Moore has had a winning record in 15 out of the last 16 seasons. He led the Mountaineers to the NCAA Division I-AA national football championship in 2005. This was the first national championship for any collegiate football team in the state of North Carolina. Moore and the Mountaineers repeated as champions in 2006, …
- Houston Fancher
Houston Fancher is the head basketball coach at Appalachian State. Following the 2002-2003 season, he was named the Southern Conference coach of the Year. His first two seasons saw his team go 11-20, and 10-18 respectively. The following season, his team went 19-10, giving him coach of the year honors. In the 2006-2007 season, his squad won a school record 25 games, but failed to make the NCAA tournament garnering Appalachian's first NIT berth instead.
- Dexter Coakley
William Dexter Coakley (born October 20, 1972 in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina) is an American football linebacker currently a free agent of the NFL. He was a third round draft choice of the Dallas Cowboys in the 1997 NFL Draft, out of Division I-AA school Appalachian State University. While at Appalachian State, he won the first two Buck Buchanan Awards, given each year to the nation's top Division 1-AA defensive player.
- Martha McCaughey
Martha McCaughey, PhD, (born 25 October 1966) is the director of Women's Studies at Appalachian State University. Her research and writings have dealt extensively with evolutionary psychology as applied to gender. Among her writings are two similarly titled books: "Real Knockouts: the Physical Feminism of Women’s Self-Defense" (ISBN 0-8147-5577-1) in 1997 and "Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in the Movies" (ISBN 0-292-75251-2), …
- Charles Frazier
Charles Frazier (born November 4, 1950) is an award-winning American historical novelist. Frazier was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1973. He earned an M.A. from Appalachian State University in the mid-1970s, and received his Ph.D. in English from the University of South Carolina in 1986.
- Stephen J. Dubner
Stephen J. Dubner is an award-winning author and journalist who lives in New York City. In addition to Freakonomics , he is the author of Turbulent Souls ( Choosing My Religion ), Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper , and a children's book, The Boy With Two Belly Buttons . His journalism has appeared primarily in the New York Times and the New Yorker , and has been anthologized in The Best American Sportswriting , The Best American Crime Writing , and elsewhere.
- Mack Brown
William Mack Brown (born August 27, 1951) is head coach of the University of Texas Longhorn football team. During the 2005 season, Coach Brown led the Longhorns to a Rose Bowl victory and a National Championship. With the 2006 season, Brown led his team to win 10 games or more for six straight years, which is the best current ten-win streak in the NCAA. Prior to coaching at Texas, Brown coached at Appalachian State, Tulane, and North Carolina.
- Eric Church
Eric Church (born Kenneth Eric Church, May 3, 1977 in Granite Falls, North Carolina) is a country music singer and songwriter. To date, has charted three singles on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts.
- John Settle
John R. Settle (born June 2, 1965 in Reidsville, North Carolina), is a former professional American football player. A 5'9", 207-lb. undrafted running back from Appalachian State University, Settle played for the Atlanta Falcons from 1987-1990. During the 1988 season, he was selected to the 1988 Pro Bowl after rushing for a career high 1,024 yards and 7 touchdowns. He was the first undrafted running back in NFL history to rush for over 1,000 yards in a season.
- Buzz Peterson
Buzz Peterson, born Robert Bower Peterson, Jr. on May 17, 1963, is currently an executive (director of player personnel) with the Charlotte Bobcats of the NBA. Previously, he was the College Basketball head coach at Coastal Carolina University. He also formerly coached at Tulsa and Tennessee. Peterson played basketball at North Carolina where he was a roommate of Michael Jordan. On June 12, 2007, he joined the Charlotte Bobcats, the team co-owned by Jordan, …
- Ron Prince
Ron Prince (born September 18, 1969, in Omaha, Nebraska) is the head football coach at Kansas State University. In his first season he was the third-youngest NCAA Division I-Bowl Subdivision head coach in the country, and he is presently one of just six African-American head coaches in the Division I Bowl Subdivision. Prince succeeded Bill Snyder at Kansas State following the 2005 season. In his first season at Kansas State, in 2006, …
- Daniel Wilcox
Daniel Wilcox (born March 23, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American football player who plays for the Baltimore Ravens and plays tight end. He is averaging 14 receiving yards per game. He attended Appalachian State University.
- Alvin Gentry
Alvin Gentry is an American professional basketball coach, and college basketball player, who has led three different NBA teams. He served as an interim coach for the Miami Heat at the end of the 1995 season, and later coached the Detroit Pistons and the Los Angeles Clippers. As of March 2006, Gentry is an assistant coach with the Phoenix Suns. He began his NBA coaching career in 1989 as an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs under Larry Brown.
- Romulus Linney
Romulus Zachariah Linney IV (born September 21, 1930) is an American playwright and professor. Linney was born in Philadelphia to Maitland Thompson (Clabaugh) and Romulus Zachariah Linney III. His great-grandfather was Republican Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney. Linney was raised in Boone, North Carolina and Madison, Tennessee. He is the author of three novels, thirteen plays and twenty-two short plays that have been produced in the U.S. and in Europe.
- Joe Murphy
Joseph R. Murphy (Joe Murphy) (born September 27, 1947, in Memphis, Tennessee) is a documentary filmmaker specializing in films about cultural obsessions. He graduated from Davidson College in 1969. His films include "Hot Lime" (1982) about fresco painter Ben Long, "Doc and Merle" (1985) about Doc Watson and his son Merle, "Talk Hair Talk" (1987), "Auto Bond" (1988) about automobiles, "Shoes Required" (1989), …
- Lyle F. Schoenfeldt
Lyle F. Schoenfeldt is an American psychology professor best known for a standard textbook on human resources. Schoenfeldt earned his B.A. from Case Western Reserve University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University. He held a position at University of Georgia and was Director of Early Identification of Management Talent (EIMT) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before joining Texas A&M University in 1981. He remained there until 1996.
- Mike Ramsey
Michael Jeffrey Ramsey was a Major League Baseball infielder. He attended Appalachian State University. Ramsey was drafted in the 26th round of the 1972 Amateur Draft by the Chicago Cubs, but did not sign. In 1975, Ramsey was again drafted, this time in the 3rd round by the St. Louis Cardinals. He spent the next several years coming up through the Cardinals minor league farm system with stops in Johns City, Arkansas, and Springfield.
- John A. Allison IV
John A. Allison IV is the chairman and chief executive officer of BB&T Corporation, a financial holdings company listed on the New York Stock Exchange with more than $100 billion in managed assets. Allison was born on August 14, 1948, in Charlotte, North Carolina. He began his career with BB&T in 1971 following his graduation from the University of North Carolina with a degree in business administration.
- Gail E. Haley
Gail E. Haley (1939-) is an American author an illustrator. She was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. She married mathematician Joseph A. Haley in 1959. Her first book, "My Kingdom for a Dragon" was published in 1962. She won the Caldecott Medal in 1970 for her retelling of African folktale "A Story a Story".
- Oliver Max Gardner
Oliver Max Gardner (22 March 1882 -- 6 February 1947) was the Democratic governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1929 to 1933. Prior to becoming Governor, Gardner was elected as a state senator from Cleveland County, North Carolina (serving one term as President Pro Tempore of the North Carolina Senate) and as Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina (1917-1921). In 1920, he lost the Democratic primary runoff for Governor to Cameron Morrison.
- Chris Swecker
Chris Swecker (born July 14, 1956 in El Ferrol, Spain) was Assistant Director of the FBI until Spring 2007
- Mike Frier
Mike Frier (born March 20, 1969 in Jacksonville, North Carolina) is a former American football defensive end/defensive tackle in the NFL. He played collegiately at Appalachian State University and professionally with the Seattle Seahawks and Cincinnati Bengals.
- Beattie Feathers
William Beattie Feathers (August 20, 1909 - March 11, 1979) was an American football running back in the NFL. He played for the Chicago Bears, Brooklyn Dodgers and Green Bay Packers during his seven year career. He is credited as being the first player in NFL history to rush for over 1,000 yards in one season (1934) and remains to this day the NFL single season record holder for yards per carry when he averaged 8.44 yards per attempt that same year.
- Larry Hand
Larry Thomas Hand (born July 10, 1940) is a former American Football defensive tackle who played for the Detroit Lions in a thirteen year career that lasted from 1965 to 1977 in the National Football League. Hand played college football at Appalachian State University, …
- Gene Wooten
Gene Wooten (born in Franklinton, NC, died November 07, 2001 in Nashville, TN) was an American dobro player and multi-instrumentalist. He became serious about playing music professionally while a student at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, and ultimately moved to Nashville, TN in 1977, where he landed his first professional job as a musician with Wilma Lee Cooper. He fast became a regular on the Grand Ole Opry.
- Tim Pratt
Tim Pratt (December 12, 1976) is a science fiction and fantasy writer and poet. He grew up in the vicinity of Dudley, North Carolina, and attended Appalachian State University, where he earned a Bachelor's in English. In 1999 he attended the Clarion East Writing Workshop. He moved to Santa Cruz, California in 2000, and currently resides in Oakland with his wife Heather Shaw. He currently works as a senior editor at "Locus Magazine".
- Tom Apke
Tom Apke was a college basketball coach at Appalachian State, Colorado, and Creighton. From 1974 to 1981, he coached at Creighton, where he compiled a 130-64(.670) record. From 1981 to 1985, he coached at Colorado, where he compiled a 17-52 record. From 1986 to 1996, he served as the head basketball coach at Appalachian State. During his ten year tenure, he compiled a 139-147(.486) record.
- Steve Metcalf
Stephen Michael Metcalf is a U.S. politician. He was a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's forty-ninth Senate district, including constituents in Buncombe county. A management consultant from Asheville, North Carolina, earned degrees from Appalachian State University and the University of Tennessee in political science. He served in the United States Army as a chaplain's assistant, …
- Melissa Morrison-Howard
Melissa Morrison-Howard (born July 9, 1971 in Mooresville, North Carolina) is an American hurdler best known for winning two Olympic bronze medals. She also won the bronze medal at the 2003 World Indoor Championships as well as one national indoor championships. She is a 1993 graduate of Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
- Adrian Murrell
Adrian Byran Murrell (born October 16, 1970 in Fayetteville, North Carolina), is an American former professional football player who was selected by the New York Jets in the 5th round of the 1993 NFL Draft after playing collegiately for the West Virginia Mountaineers. Murrell played in 9 NFL seasons from 1993-2000 and 2003. Murrell is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans.
- Alec Yasinsac
Alec Yasinsac is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Florida State University. Yasinsac was awarded his doctoral degree from the University of Virginia, where his doctoral advisor was William Wulf. He received the Master of Science in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School and Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Appalachian State University.
- Matthew Barnett Robinson
Matthew Barnett Robinson (born August 17 1970 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is a Criminologist at Appalachian State University (ASU) in Boone, North Carolina. After receiving his PhD from the Florida State University School of Criminology & Criminal Justice, he accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice at ASU in 1997. Now in the position of Associate Professor, Dr.
- Clyde R. Hoey
Clyde Roark Hoey (11 December 1877 -- 12 May 1954) was the Democratic governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1937 to 1941. Hoey later served as a Democratic U.S. Senator from 1945 until his death in 1954. He was also a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1919 to 1921. Hoey Auditorium on the campus of Western Carolina University is named after him, as is Hoey Hall, a dormitory at Appalachian State University.
- Ruth M. Easterling
Ruth Elizabeth Moss Easterling (1910-2006) was a Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives for thirteen terms. She was born December 26, 1910 in Gaffney, South Carolina. She was an alumna of Limestone College and Appalachian State University. After serving on the city council of Charlotte, Easterling was first elected to the legislature in 1976, at age 65. She retired in 2002 at age 92. Easterling died on November 1, 2006 at age 95, …
- Joseph R. Murphy
Joseph R. Murphy (Joe Murphy) (born September 27, 1947, in Memphis, Tennessee) is a documentary filmmaker specializing in films about cultural obsessions. He graduated from Davidson College in 1970. His films include Hot Lime (1982), Doc and Merle (1985), Talk Hair Talk (1987), Auto Bond (1988), Shoes Required (1989), Life from Stone (1992), Slow Food Fast Times (1995), and Age Matters (2000). Joe Murphy is currently a full-time Professor at Appalachian State University.
- Gil Hyatt
Gil Hyatt has a degree in business management/finance from Appalachian State University in North Carolina, graduating in 2000. He helps run a family owned business "Gil Hyatt Construction" based in Southern Florida.
- Tony Suarez
Antonio Jose Suarez played for the Carolina Lightnin' in the American Soccer League (ASL). He was named Rookie of the Year in 1981 and played Forward on the first ASL All-Star Team. Suarez was born in Havana, Cuba. In 1972 his parents, Roberto and Miriam Suarez, left Cuba and relocated their family in Charlotte, North Carolina, where Suarez attended Myers Park High School. He graduated from Myers Park in 1974, enrolled in Appalachian State University, …
- Wendy Blue
Hello everyone!! My name is Wendy Blue and I currently live in beautiful Maryville, TN. Which is a short distance away from my party spot of Knoxville. I am from Canton, NC (GO TARHEELS!) and I graduated from Appalachian State University and then went on to pursue my Doctorate of Chiropractic at Logan College of Chiropractic in St. Louis. I moved to Maryville in 2003.
- Kenya Tillery
Bonjour! I am a classical composer turned film/tv composer turned songwriter/producer AKA "Ms. Maestro", and I am currently preparing an album for release soon entitled "SECRETS" with my band, The MoJo Affair...
- Katie
I have plopped myself down in the upper midwest. uptown minneapolis. the north tip of uptown. the back room of the building. overlooking the garden. I left a fiery home of 101 degrees and have found myself at the seasonal cusp of what seems to be the beginning of a wet autumn. i like it. The Equality Ride has me by the boot straps? the belt buckle? by my reins. We seek the conversation that may save your life, it saves mine. never doubt that.