CHAPEL HILL—The 2025-2026 NCHSAA Wells Fargo State Cup fall standings – the first data among eight classifications – are available after last week’s fall sports season conclusion.
The 1A classification’s highest scoring quintet spans from the westernmost mountains (Robbinsville) to the Inner Banks (Northside-Pinetown). Robbinsville and Northside-Pinetown shared the men’s cross country state meet stage in Kernersville, where both schools placed third and fifth, respectively. The top eight teams in any sanctioned sport earn school points toward the Wells Fargo State Cup.
Education-based athletics’ core values are reaffirmed each time student-athletes from across North Carolina gather to pursue top honors while representing their schools, cities, and counties,” NCHSAA Commissioner Que Tucker said. “Most importantly, these young people do so by exemplifying a uniting spirit of sportsmanship, which overcomes any perceived boundaries.”
Hoggard, a men’s soccer state champion, added runner-up finishes in women’s tennis and men’s cross country. Cardinal Gibbons placed first in women’s cross country (with the Crusaders’ men second), and first in women’s tennis. Watauga completed its fall with a football state championship after a golden women’s cross country campaign and silver volleyball season.
The three largest classifications’ leaders represent the state’s Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and Mountains. Hoggard (Wilmington) in 8A, Cardinal Gibbons (Raleigh) in 7A, and Watauga in 6A, all had teams among the state’s top eight finishers in six of the fall’s seven sanctioned sports (men’s & women’s cross country, football, women’s golf, men’s soccer, women’s tennis, and volleyball).
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools earned fall distinction as a local education agency (LEA) with more than one high school and each NCHSAA school among a classification’s top five. Carrboro is second in 4A, while Chapel Hill and East Chapel Hill are fourth in 7A and 6A, respectively.
This fall’s highest scoring school is Mooresville’s Pine Lake Preparatory (307.5 points), which secured three 3A state championships (women’s cross country, golf, and tennis), and placed second in volleyball. Approximately 50 points separate the current first and fifth positions among the 2A and 5A classifications.
Fall Standings
8A
- Hoggard (Wilmington) – 275
- Green Level (Cary) – 217.5
- Myers Park (Charlotte) – 210
- Broughton (Raleigh) – 180
- West Forsyth – 147.5
7A
- Cardinal Gibbons (Raleigh) – 290
- Marvin Ridge (Waxhaw) – 275
- Cuthbertson (Waxhaw) – 185
- Chapel Hill – 157.5
- Reagan (Pfafftown) – 150
6A
- Watauga – 270
- Charlotte Catholic – 210
- Northern Guilford – 200
- East Chapel Hill – 192.5; Middle Creek (Apex) – 192.5
5A
- East Lincoln – 180
- Hickory – 167.5
- Orange – 155
- Seaforth (Pittsboro) – 142.5
- South Point (Belmont) – 125
4A
- Lake Norman Charter (Huntersville) – 230
- Carrboro – 220
- Brevard – 190
- Lincoln Charter – 150
- First Flight (Kill Devil Hills) – 147.5
3A
- Pine Lake Preparatory (Mooresville) – 307.5
- NCSSM-Durham – 237.5
- Wake Preparatory – 150
- Union Academy (Monroe) – 142.5
- Shelby – 100
2A
- Bishop McGuinness (Kernersville) – 177.5
- Community School of Davidson – 167.5
- Research Triangle – 147.5
- Christ The King (Huntersville) – 140
- East Wilkes – 125
1A
- NCSSM-Morganton – 252.5
- Thomas Jefferson Classical (Mooresboro) – 190
- NC Leadership Academy (Kernersville) – 150
- Northside (Pinetown) – 142.5
- Robbinsville – 127.5
