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CAROLYN SHANNONHOUSE - ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER SPORTS
Carolyn Shannonhouse has served the NCHSAA as assistant executive director since 1986, after an outstanding career as a teacher and a coach in several different school systems.
She came to the Association after eight years at Cary High School, where she compiled a 125-60 coaching mark in basketball and guided her teams to first or second place in the conference in her last five seasons. She was Wake County Coach of the Year, the Raleigh Metro Coach of the Year three times, and was an assistant coach in the 1985 East-West All-Star basketball game in Greensboro. Her Cary women's tennis teams were also strong, posting an 85-26 mark during her tenure, and she also worked with the women's gymnastics team there in 1979 when it earned a state championship. IN 1994 she was chosen as a charter member of the Cary High School Sports Hall of Fame.
She was active in NCHSAA activities even then, serving as secretary of the Basketball Advisory Committee and as a member of the North Carolina Athletic Officials Association (NCAOA) Board, among her assignments.
She also coached and taught at Broughton High in Raleigh for a year and was at Pembroke High in Hampton, Va., for six years prior to that. While at Pembroke, she also coached women's track (a 30-5 dual meet mark in three years), women's basketball, field hockey, softball and swimming, giving her a most diversified athletic background.
A 1966 graduate of Southampton High in Virginia, Mrs. Shannonhouse went on to Madison College (now James Madison University) where she earned her B.S. degree in health and physical education in 1970.
In her role with the NCHSAA, Mrs. Shannonhouse has been primarily responsible for working with women's sports programs and sports such as soccer, cross-country, tennis and swimming played by both men and women.
She has served as a member of the National Federation of State High School Associations Volleyball and Soccer Rules Committee and served on a special national ad hoc Spirit Committee. During her years with the NCHSAA, she has served on numerous local and statewide committees regarding athletics in general and more specifically the involvement of females in sports.
She received the NFHS's Outstanding Service Award in 2001 and the Citation Award in 2009. She works with cheerleading with the NCHSAA and is also responsible for the sanctioning of interstate and international competitions. In 2004, she received the YWCA Academy of Women Award recognizing "Women Who Make a Difference" in the state of NC. Ms. Shannonhouse was inducted into the prestigious NCHSAA Hall of Fame in the Spring of 2010.
Carolyn and her husband David reside in Cary and frequently visit their daughter, Alison, her husband Tim and their grandsons Cooper and Luke, who live in Wilmington.
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