Carter Suggs To Be Inducted Into North Carolina High School Track & Field Hall of Fame
January 08, 2025 | Track & Field
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - East Carolina track & field alum Carter Suggs is set to be inducted into the North Carolina High School Track & Field and Cross Country Hall of Fame, the organization has announced.
Suggs, a 1978 East Carolina alumni, was a 21-time high school State Champion in North Carolina and four times was the MVP of the state meet while competing for Tarboro High School. The sprinter set multiple N.C. meet records and went on to win three gold medals at the All-American Championship as well as winning six medals — five gold, one silver — competing for the USA Junior team in global competitions.
According to the Hall of Fame, "His impact on North Carolina was so great, that the NC General Assembly penned a joint resolution by the N.C. House and N.C. Senate, in 1973, when he was only a junior in high school, proclaiming him as "one of the outstanding native sons" of the state, and also the town of Tarboro declared Aug. 1, 1973, 'Carter Suggs Day'."
Suggs went on help ECU to three Southern Conference Track & Field Championships while individually winning MVP of both the indoor and outdoor meets in 1975. He won six events individually during his time in Greenville, competing under the legendary Bill Carson.
Suggs passed away in 2012 and was posthumously inducted into the East Carolina Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013 and has separately been inducted into the Tarboro High School Hall of Fame (2015) and Twin County Museum and Hall of Fame (2016).
The North Carolina Track & Field Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be Feb. 1, 2025, in Winston-Salem during the Mondo Elite High School Invitational at the JDL Fast Track.
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Suggs, a 1978 East Carolina alumni, was a 21-time high school State Champion in North Carolina and four times was the MVP of the state meet while competing for Tarboro High School. The sprinter set multiple N.C. meet records and went on to win three gold medals at the All-American Championship as well as winning six medals — five gold, one silver — competing for the USA Junior team in global competitions.
According to the Hall of Fame, "His impact on North Carolina was so great, that the NC General Assembly penned a joint resolution by the N.C. House and N.C. Senate, in 1973, when he was only a junior in high school, proclaiming him as "one of the outstanding native sons" of the state, and also the town of Tarboro declared Aug. 1, 1973, 'Carter Suggs Day'."
Suggs went on help ECU to three Southern Conference Track & Field Championships while individually winning MVP of both the indoor and outdoor meets in 1975. He won six events individually during his time in Greenville, competing under the legendary Bill Carson.
Suggs passed away in 2012 and was posthumously inducted into the East Carolina Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013 and has separately been inducted into the Tarboro High School Hall of Fame (2015) and Twin County Museum and Hall of Fame (2016).
The North Carolina Track & Field Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be Feb. 1, 2025, in Winston-Salem during the Mondo Elite High School Invitational at the JDL Fast Track.
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