SouthWest Edgecombe High School welcomed three new members to its Athletic Hall of Fame during the school’s athletic awards banquet on Monday.
Bobby Hawkins, Linwan Euwell and Allen Letchworth were inducted into the HOF Class of 2025 by current SWE athletic director Carter Varnell and retired athletic director Sandra Langley.
Hawkins graduated from SWE in 2003. He played baseball all four years and basketball his junior and senior seasons with the Cougars.
He was a standout pitcher, infielder and hitter for SWE. He lettered three years and was an all-conference selection two years. The Cougars advanced to the playoffs all three years Hawkins was on the varsity squad, and the Cougars advanced to the final eight in the state in 2001.
Hawkins is one of eight players in the history of the baseball program to be named all-state.
At the time of his high school graduation, Hawkins held the highest batting average of .494 (from 1979-2003). It has since been broken.
He signed to play baseball for Methodist College (now University) in Fayetteville, and played two seasons primarily as a utility infield player before suffering a knee injury in the offseason which ended his playing career.
Hawkins moved into a career in sales and marketing, and after leaving Methodist, he returned to the community and coached SWE Babe Ruth teams as well as served as a volunteer coach for the high school program.
He is currently on the baseball staff as a varsity assistant coach and has spent countless hours improving, grooming and manicuring the SWE baseball field for the school programs and Babe Ruth programs.
Euwell was born in Edgecombe County and graduated from SWE in 2007. He received a bachelor of arts degree in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Euwell was a standout varsity athlete in football, basketball and track at SouthWest. He was an all-conference selection as well as conference player of the year twice and earned all-state recognition his junior and senior seasons as well.
He recorded 78 tackles, six sacks and 13 tackles for loss as a sophomore; 90 tackles and 14 sacks as a junior and 98 tackles, 13 sacks and 24 tackles for loss as a senior.
Euwell received a full scholarship to UNC-Chapel Hill and was once voted “comeback player of the year.”
In 2012, he started a career in the restaurant business and is a successful chef in the Raleigh/Durham area and has been nominated twice for chef of the year.
Letchworth graduated from SWE in 2002, where he was a standout in varsity baseball (all-conference for three years) and a member of the National Honor Society.
The varsity baseball teams made the state playoffs for three straight years. He was the starting and winning pitcher in the first round all three of those years.
Letchworth signed to play baseball at Barton College in 2002, then transferred to Pitt Community College where he compiled a record of 11-2. While at PCC, he was a Region X all-conference player and was selected as an honorable mention All-American.
Letchworth primarily served as relief pitcher at North Carolina State University after PCC. He graduated from N.C. State with a bachelor science degree in education and received an associate’s degree in science from PCC.
After graduating from N.C. State, Letchworth returned to Barton and obtained an additional degree in business management.
He is currently serving as a software engineering Senior Director at Truist Bank.
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