CHAPEL HILL – The North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) is pleased to announce the eight winners of the 2020 Homer Thompson Memorial “Eight Who Make a Difference” Awards. These awards are presented in partnership with the North Carolina Farm Bureau and recognize one individual in each region that serve as excellent role models…
CHAPEL HILL – The Morris Walker Development Award was created to help recognize individuals and groups that have helped to build the endowment for the NCHSAA. Through the endowment, these groups and individuals help provide the exceptional quality of championships, scholarship and leadership programs we enjoy in North Carolina. This year recognizes a group, the…
CHAPEL HILL – The North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) selected Steve Alford, Ted Carver and Arnold Spell from Durham to honor with the Association's 2020 Unsung Hero Award. The Unsung Hero Award, given periodically by the NCHSAA, normally goes to those tremendous volunteers who work in so many different areas of a school…
CHAPEL HILL—A total of 54 student-athletes from North Carolina High School Athletic Association member schools were named Performance of the Week Award recipients throughout the 2019-2020 school year. This weekly award was designed to recognize outstanding accomplishments by student-athletes nominated by media representatives and school administrators spanning from August 19th through March 14th. Weekly recipients…
CHAPEL HILL – The North Carolina High School Athletic Association is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019-2020 Pat Gainey Student Award, providing scholarship support for two student-athletes with a focus on need-based applicants. This year’s recipients are Austin Bowling from Harnett Central High School and Colby Taylor from Swain County High School. Each…
Now we know. And it isn’t fun. No NCAA basketball tournament. No traditional Major League Baseball Opening Days. No professional basketball or hockey playoffs. No Little League or youth soccer. The Summer Olympics have been delayed for at least a year. And the list of community cancellations and postponements is nearly endless.
CHAPEL HILL – The North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) announced the selection of Steve Rankin from Lake Norman High School for the Association's Bud Phillips Retiree Award. The award is designed to recognize individuals that have retired from full-time work in education and continue to be a valuable resource to the NCHSAA through…
CHAPEL HILL —The NCHSAA Scholar Athlete Program is sponsored by the Governor’s Highway Safety Program’s “Click It or Ticket” initiative and provides certificates of recognition to individual students as well as teams that meet the qualification standards. For individuals to qualify, they must have a 3.5 weighted GPA or higher during the semester under consideration,…
CHAPEL HILL —The NCHSAA Scholar Athlete Program is sponsored by the Governor’s Highway Safety Program’s “Click It or Ticket” initiative and provides certificates of recognition to individual students as well as teams that meet the qualification standards. For individuals to qualify, they must have a 3.5 weighted GPA or higher during the semester under consideration,…
CHAPEL HILL — Commissioner Que Tucker of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) is pleased to present two Commissioner's Choice Awards for the 2019-2020 academic year. One is awarded to Sammy Carden from Durham Coca-Cola and the other is awarded to one to J.J. Knox from Eastern Alamance High School. These awards are presented when…
