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, has announced that Elly Henes of Green Hope High School as its 2014-15 Gatorade North Carolina Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year. Henes is the first Gatorade North…
CHAPEL HILL— Amanda Gerni of Currituck and Richard “Peanut” Tolston of Fayetteville Jack Britt have been named 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 competition are selected for this…
A Weddington High School women’s basketball standout has achieved one of the rarest of hoop feats—again—for entry in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Record book. Stephanie Watts had a quadruple double last week in a big win over Marvin Ridge. She poured in 35 points, grabbed 11 rebounds, handed…
LEJEUNE—Darryl Schwartz, a veteran teacher and coach, has stepped down as head football coach at Lejeune High School, according to a report in the Jacksonville Daily News. Schwartz, who is 59, has been coaching for 38 years and has served as head coach at Lejeune for five seasons. He has…
Jethro Pugh, an original member of the famous Dallas Cowboys Doomsday Defense and player on two Super Bowl championship teams, died last week at the age of 70 due to natural causes, according to media reports. Pugh played in four Super Bowl and helped the Cowboys win titles in 1972 and…
INDIANAPOLIS—North Carolina high school coaches continue to make great inroads in terms of national certification, according to figures released recently by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS). The state is now seventh nationally in total Accredited Interscholastic Coaches (AIC). North Carolina had 177 coaches…
a quick question concerning rules, regulations and policies of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Q: If a coach is ejected from a contest, what must he or she do for reinstatement? A: Besides serving the appropriate suspension from coaching games, according to rule 2.6.3(l) in the current edition of the Handbook, “any…
January 12, 2004 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, Ty Carter of Bessemer City launched a NCHSAA record 28 three-point attempts in a 143-49 defeat of Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy. Carter went 11 for 28 behind the arc. His 28 attempts are a NCHSAA record and his 11 made three-pointers are among the NCHAA…
RALEIGH—Southeast Raleigh High School head women’s basketball coach Nicole Meyers achieved a coaching milestone last month. Meyers guided her team to a 60-7 victory over Harnett Central in mid-December to earn her 200th coaching victory. Her career mark now stands at 200-30. The Southeast Raleigh coach is a graduate…
