APEX—Matt Clifton has been named as the first athletic director at the new Apex Friendship High School, according to a report in the Raleigh News and Observer. Apex Friendship, which has been accepted into the membership of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, will open this fall with…
January 30, 2009 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, Dr. Bill Harrison, superintendent of the Cumberland County Schools and president of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, tendered his resignation as president of the NCHSAA effective in April. He was named the head of the State Board of Education. January…
4 QUESTIONS: A CONVERSATION WITH…BOBBY WILKINS Bobby Wilkins has had a notable career in both coaching and administration. He has spent over a decade as the principal at Hendersonville High School after guiding Hendersonville to both the 1987 and 1992 NCHSAA men’s state basketball titles as head coach and the men’s golf team…
RAEFORD—Hoke High School will induct the newest members of the Hoke High School Hall of Fame on Friday. The banquet starts at 6 pm in the Gibson Cafeteria on campus and then after the banquet the inductees will head to the McDonald Gym for the Hoke basketball game, where they will…
Weddington High School’s women’s basketball team and its star Stephanie Watts qualified for a performance listing in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Record Book from a game earlier this week. Weddington hit 14 three-point field goals as a team in its 56-28 victory over Cuthbertson, five short of the…
January 29, 2010 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, the North Carolina High School Athletic Association and All American Swim Supply entered into a three-year agreement naming All American Swim Supply as the title partner of the NCHSAA State Swimming and Diving Championships. All American Swim Supply is a full service swim…
GREENVILLE– Dr. Jimmie Grimsley, very supportive of high school athletics in the state and especially in the Pitt County area, died earlier Wednesday of an apparent heart attack at the age of 70. Grimsley had been involved with the North Carolina High School Athletic Association's Eastern Regional basketball tournament when…
CHICAGO — In its 30th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with USA TODAY High School Sports, today announced Jeremy Brown of Broughton High School as its 2014-15 Gatorade North Carolina Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year. Brown is the first Gatorade North Carolina…
CHAPEL HILL—Sarah Marriner of Perquimans and Logan Bugg of Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons are the winners of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Performance of the Week awards, powered by Time Warner Cable SportsChannel with Subway® Restaurants. Each week one male and one female athlete in NCHSAA…
January 27, 1998 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, legendary football coach and educator Lee Stone died at the age of 91. A native of Pennsylvania, Stone had the football field at Asheboro named in his honor and he is a member of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Hall of…
