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Robert George Light (April 27, 1927 – May 11, 2015) of
Boone, North Carolina Boone is a town in and the county seat of Watauga County, North Carolina, United States. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, Boone is the home of Appalachian State University and the headquarters for the disaster a ...
, was an American
basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
and
tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
coach for Appalachian State University. Light was a standout basketball and Tennis player for
Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University is r ...
from 1946 to 1950, and was named the school's most outstanding athlete for the 1949–50 year. From 1957 to 1972, Light served as the head basketball coach for Appalachian State, compiling a 212-179 (.542) record. His 15 seasons mark the longest tenure in Mountaineer history. In 1974, Light was named head tennis coach and went on to win 255 matches in that capacity. Light, a member of the Washington University and Appalachian State athletic Halls of Fame, as well as the North Carolina Tennis Hall of Fame, died on May 11, 2015, at the age of 88. He resided in Boone, NC with his wife, the former Patricia Parker of Jerseyville, Illinois, from 1957 until he entered palliative care in Lenoir, NC. Together they had four sons.


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