Peggy Pate Chappell

Swimming
Inducted: 1993
  • Graduate of Goldsboro High School, 1944
  • Top amateur swimmer in the 1940s, specializing in the breaststroke
  • Won the Teague Award as outstanding female athlete in the Carolinas in 1943 and 1944
  • Attended Penn Hall College in Pennsylvania
  • Set a national college record in the 50-meter breaststroke