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WAKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR TO RECEIVE NFHS CITATION
INDIANAPOLIS,
IN — The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) will
award NFHS Citations to eight high school athletic directors December 18 in
Orlando, Florida, including one from North Carolina.
Bobby Guthrie
of the Wake County schools will be among those recognized during luncheon
festivities at the 41st annual National Athletic Directors
Conference, sponsored jointly by the NFHS and the National Interscholastic
Athletic Administrators Association.
NFHS Citations are
presented annually to outstanding athletic directors in recognition of
contributions to interscholastic athletics at the local, state and national
levels. State associations nominate athletic directors for NFHS Citations, and
the NFHS Board of Directors approves recipients.
Guthrie, CMAA,
is the senior administrator for athletics and driver education of the Wake
County school system and has spent his entire career promoting education-based
athletics in North Carolina.
After starting
his career as a teacher at Scotland High School in Laurinburg, Guthrie became a
baseball coach at the collegiate level. He was a graduate assistant baseball
coach at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill for a year before moving
to the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, where he was the head baseball
coach from 1983 to 1991.
Returning to
the high school ranks, Guthrie became a teacher and coach in the New Hanover
School System in Wilmington in 1991. From there he moved to Wake County, where
he has been in his current position since 1994. While at Wake County, Guthrie
has assisted with numerous North Carolina High School Athletic Association championships,
developed a cheerleading coach education program, established a sportsmanship
education program and initiated the Wake County Schools Sports Medicine
Symposium.
Guthrie is an outspoken
advocate for coaching education on the national level. He is the NIAAA
representative on the NFHS Coaches Education Committee and is a certified
instructor of the NFHS Fundamentals of Coaching course. Earlier this year,
Guthrie was named the NFHS Coach Educator of the Year. In addition, he was the
first Accredited Interscholastic Coach to be certified in the United States
through the NFHS Coach Education Program.
At the state
level, Guthrie served on the boards of directors of both the NCHSAA and the
North Carolina Athletic Directors Association (NCADA), and he has served as
chair of the NCADA Mentoring Committee since 2003. Among his numerous awards,
Guthrie was named athletic director of the year by the NCADA in 2007 and
received the NCADA Award of Merit in 2001.
Guthrie
received both his bachelor’s (1974) and master’s (1978) degrees from the
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
The NFHS, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, is the national leadership organization for high school sports and fine arts activities
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