High school boys basketball: East announces Ledbetter as new head coach
Published 12:35 am Monday, May 6, 2024
- East' Trey Ledbetter, photo by Wayne Hinshaw, for the Salisbury Post
Staff report
GRANITE QUARRY — East Rowan announced Trey Ledbetter as its new head boys basketball coach on Sunday.
Ledbetter will replace Andrew Porter, who was head coach for four seasons. Porter’s teams were 19-63, including 3-21 this past season.
East still has one school year of athletics remaining in the 3A South Piedmont Conference, which is strong in boys basketball.
Realignment is coming for the 2025-26 school year.
Ledbetter knows the lay of the land as an East Rowan graduate — he played for the East varsity in 2000 and 2001 — as well as a former East head coach.
He coached the Mustangs for five seasons from 2010-11 to 2014-15. East had records of 1-20, 13-12, 6-17, 4-18 and 9-14.
The 2011-12 team that went 13-12 was the last East boys basketball squad to post a winning record and the last one to make the state playoffs.
That team, which has players such as Jared Hough, Jordan Shepherd and Hakeem Gittens, had a seven-game winning streak and finished third in the 3A North Piedmont Conference standings.
Ledbetter returned at mid-season as head coach to help the Mustangs finish out a 2-23 season in 2019-20. He is credited with a 1-15 record for that partial season.
East plans to introduce — or re-introduce — Ledbetter to parents and potential players on Wednesday, May 8, at 6 p.m. in the East media center.
That’s an “interest meeting” and the Mustangs will talk about plans for summer basketball.