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LOUISBURG -- Louisburg College has gone to an experienced hand for its next men's basketball coach.
Assistant Athletic Director Jason Rasnake announced that assistant coach Ray Hartsfield has been elevated to head coach, effective this week.
Hartsfield has been with the Hurricanes since the spring of 2023. And, he's been in coaching and administration for more than 30 years -- most significantly with East Chapel Hill High -- building successful programs and developing student-athletes, the college said.

Ray Hartsfield, Louisburg College's newly named basketball mentor, encourages and instructs players at a practice session. Before joining the Louisburg College staff, Hartsfield spent 31 years coaching high school basketball -- serving 27 years as the head boys' basketball coach at East Chapel Hill High School, where he was the only head coach in the program's history from the school's opening in 1996 until his retirement in 2023.