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2024-2025 NFHS School Honor Roll Program

2024-2025 NFHS School Honor Roll Program

The NFHS School Honor Roll Program recognizes schools with their coaches completing professional development through NFHS Learning Center coursework.  This national distinction honors a school and its coaches’ dedication and commitment to students and education-based programs. Schools that apply and meet the requirements earn a banner to hang in their school to highlight this national achievement….

Coach Albert Capps Receives N.C. Governor’s Laurel Wreath Award

Coach Albert Capps Receives N.C. Governor’s Laurel Wreath Award

On Sunday, December 22, 2024, Coach Albert Capps was honored with the N.C. Governor’s Laurel Wreath Award is a prestigious recognition bestowed upon individuals who have made exceptional contributions to athletics or sports in North Carolina. Representative Frank Sossamon nominated Coach Capps for this distinguished award. Capps’ remarkable educational career began in 1965 at Henderson…

2025 NCHSAA Winter Championship Sites

2025 NCHSAA Winter Championship Sites

CHAPEL HILL – The North Carolina High School Athletic Association is proud to stage the 2025 Winter Sports State Championships in February and March. Swimming and Diving New this year, media are asked to register if they plan to attend the Regional Swimming and Diving Championships.  The first championships of the Winter will be the Swimming and…

Remembering Coach Wright: A Hall-of-Fame Coach and WNC Legend

Remembering Coach Wright: A Hall-of-Fame Coach and WNC Legend

Carroll C. Wright, Jr. passed away on Friday, January 17, 2025, in Haywood County, North Carolina. He was born December 24, 1936, in Swain County, North Carolina, leaving behind a legacy filled with remarkable accomplishments and cherished memories. Wright was inducted into the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 2004, among…

2023-24 State and National Coaches of the Year Announced; Maurice Atwood named National Coach of the Year

2023-24 State and National Coaches of the Year Announced; Maurice Atwood named National Coach of the Year

INDIANAPOLIS  — Twenty-four high school coaches nationwide have been selected as 2023-24 National Coaches of the Year by the NFHS Coaches Association.  The NFHS, which has been recognizing coaches through an awards program since 1982, honors coaches in the top 10 girls’ sports and top 10 boys’ sports (by participation numbers) and in two “other”…

Remembering, NCHSAA Hall of Famer, Jim Brett

Remembering, NCHSAA Hall of Famer, Jim Brett

Coach Jim Brett of Emerald Isle, NC, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Saturday, January 11, 2025.  He passed away peacefully at Carolina East Medical Center with his wife and daughter by his side.  Jim grew up in Ahoskie and graduated from Ahoskie High School in 1963, where he was a three-sport athlete.  He excelled…

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