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…
from the National Federation INDIANAPOLIS — Davis Whitfield, commissioner of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) for the past five years, has been selected chief operating officer of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS), effective July 1, 2015. Whitfield will succeed Jim Tenopir, who is retiring…
WINDSOR– Former teacher and coach Ron Cooke passed away over the weekend at the age of 71. Born in Bertie County, Cooke had been a teacher and baseball coach at Bertie High School for a number of years and had also coached at East Wake High School and Lawrence Academy. …
KERNERSVILLE—Glenn High School has elevated Antwon Stevenson go its head football coaching position. Stevenson has been an assistant coach for all 13 years that he has taught at Glenn. A native of High Point, Stevenson will be replacing Aldine Payne, who resigned in December because of health issues. A…
a quick question concerning rules, regulations and policies of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Q: Can we get our team together on Sunday, just to look at video? A: The answer is no. Rule 2.3.6 in the current edition of the Handbook relates to no Sunday participation. Part (a) of that rule…
When Seattle and New England battle in the Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, a South View High School graduate will actually be supervising the footballs, according to the Fayetteville Observer. Tony Medlin, a native of Hope Mills, will serve as an equipment manager at the Super Bowl. The NFL dictates that equipment…
WINSTON-SALEM—David Hamlin has been selected as the new head football coach at Atkins High School, according to a recent report in the Winston-Salem Journal. Hamlin has served as the junior varsity football coach at R.J. Reynolds for the past two years. This is his first stint as a varsity head…
HENDERSONVILLE—Cole Cleary of Hendersonville High School completed an outstanding senior football season in 2014 and earned a spot in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state record book. Cleary caught 75 passes on the year for 1,818 yards, and the receiving yardage total is the third best documented for an…
