A graduate of East Carolina University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physical Education, Mary Bryan Carlyle attended ECU on full athletic scholarship in softball where she led her team as a co-captain, MVP, NCAIAW All-State and All- Region player in 1980. ECU softball won the highest level of competition at the collegiate level, winning the regional championship in 1980, defeating Tennessee Tech twice in the finals and giving ECU a number one national ranking.

When asked, Coach Mary Bryan Carlyle will tell you, she knew coaching would be her career at the age of twelve. “George Ivy, the local recreation director, thought a lot of her as a player and he trusted her to coach a termite league team of boys at such a young age”. She was always there for the kids. She held practices on her driveway during the week. Teaching the game paid off then, as it has paid off throughout her career.

Coach Carlyle coached ten years of middle school basketball and is working in her eleventh year of high school varsity basketball, hosting a 312-81 career record before the 2009-2010 seasons. Coach Carlyle's response to their success is “the credit belongs to the kids. It is the players who work hard to prepare. We provide the opportunities year round in our program for players to develop and to get experience. I t is the players that commit and sacrifice other things to get in the gym and develop their game.  It is the players that make it all worth every effort I make as a coach."

Coach Carlyle’s teams have accomplished:

7 High School Conference Championships

One 4A and Three 3A/4A Conference Tournament Championship

Eight 3A or 4A State Playoff appearances

3A and 4A NCHSAA Sectional Runner up three times

Four 3A/4A and two 4A Eastern Regional appearances

Two Eastern Regional runner-up accomplishments

One 4A Eastern Regional Championship

One 4A State Championship 1982 Goldsboro High School