ROCKY MOUNT—Former North Carolina High School Athletic Association president Dr. Travis Twiford has been named interim superintendent of the Nash-Rocky Mount school system. Twiford served as the NCHSAA president during the 1998-99 academic year. He previously has received a Distinguished Service Award from the NCHSAA and was the Association’s Superintendent of…
CLEMMONS—Brittany Cox has been selected to serve as West Forsyth High School’s new women’s varsity basketball head coach, according to a report in the Winston-Salem Journal. Cox was a star player at Bishop McGuinness High School and played on four North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 1-A championship teams from…
The Scholar-Athlete program, one of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association's most popular voluntary programs, recognizes excellence in the classroom as well as on the playing court or field. The program includes recognition of varsity teams that attain certain grades as well as individual athletes and is presented by the North Carolina…
GASTONIA—Tripper Crisson has been named as the new head baseball coach at Hunter Huss High School, according to a report in the Gastonia Gazette. Crisson graduated from Lincolnton High School in 2008 and then played shortstop at Catawba Valley Community College for two years and then two years at Tusculum….
WASHINGTON—Washington High School will be adding to its facilities by building a new field house, according to a report in the Washington Daily News. The project has been years in the making, but the school is preparing to break ground in September on a field house of 4,020 square feet…
Brian Robinson, head women’s basketball coach at Bishop McGuinness High School, has also developed a national profile while working with USA Basketball. Robinson is one of a select group of high school coaches—and the only women’s coach—who has been invited to speak at the USA Basketball Youth Coach Academy in Las…
INDIANAPOLIS— More than two million concussion courses have now been taken by coaches and other individuals since the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the online course in May 2010. The course – “Concussion in Sports” – was taken…
GREENSBORO—Allison Brown, an incoming freshman at Southern Guilford High School, died last Thursday after collapsing after a training run during tryouts for the cross country team. The 14-year-old, who had run in middle school, immediately received aid from the school’s athletic trainer and then from nearby EMT’s. She was then taken…
ROBBINSVILLE– Robbinsville High School has named Warren Knott as its new head basketball coach, according to a report in the Asheville Citizen-Times. He was promoted from assistant to head coach after serving as the head junior varsity coach. He replaces Tommy Johnson, who resigned in April after three seasons….
Green Hope and Panther Creek High Schools will be competing against one another in a unique all-sports rivalry this year, according to a report in The Raleigh News and Observer. The competition will be known as the “Fight For 55,” named for North Carolina highway 55 that separates the two Wake County…
