TRYON—Long-time Polk County head football coach Bruce Ollis is headed south of the border, according to various media reports including the Hendersonville Times-News. Bruce Ollis, who has guided the Wolverines for the past 12 years, has been approved as the new head coach at T.L. Hanna High School in South Carolina. Ollis helped build Polk…
VALDESE—Allen Wittenburg has been named the new head football coach at Draughn High School, according to various media reports including the Hickory Daily Record. The Burke County Board of Education has approved the appointment. Wittenburg is only the second head football coach in the young school’s history and will take over for Scott Lambert. Wittenburg…
HOKE COUNTY NAMES THIRD INDUCTION CLASSFOR SCHOOL’S ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME RAEFORD— The Hoke County High School Athletic Hall of Fame committee has announced its 2014 list of inductees, according to a press release from the school. The inductees will be honored at special ceremonies on February 7. The third inductee class includes Terrell Carpenter,…
WAXHAW—Brad Hoover has been named as the new head football coach at Marvin Ridge High School, according to a press release issued by the school. Tim Conner, principal at Marvin Ridge, announced the hiring. Hoover comes to Marvin Ridge after serving for a year as head coach at Union Academy, where he led the team…
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 Fame,…
INDIANAPOLIS—Mark Dreibelbis of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association staff has been selected for a prestigious national honor. Dreibelbis, assistant commissioner and supervisor of officials for the NCHSAA, has been selected by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) as the recipient of the 2014 NFHS Coach Educator of the Year award….
CHAPEL HILL—Former Durham Riverside star Lee Land has been named as the new head baseball coach at Chapel Hill, according to the Chapel Hill News. Land was selected in the Major League Baseball draft out of Riverside by the Pittsburgh Pirates, but opted to go to Wake Forest. He transferred to Arkansas and then…
NAMES IN THE BOOK Shea Ralph- Terry Sanford (1993-1996) Shea Ralph is one of the greatest female basketball players from the Tar Heel state. A graduate of Terry Sanford High School in Fayetteville, Ralph ranks among the all-time NCHSAA leaders in a number of defensive and offensive categories that helped her earn the 1996 Pat…
DALE JARRETT HONORED WITH KEY TO CITY CONOVER—Former NASCAR star and current television commentator Dale Jarrett, who was born and raised in Conover and resides there today, has been honored with the key to the city by the Conover Town Council, according to a report in The Observer-News-Enterprise. According to the paper, Jarrett said, “It…
BREVARD—Jessica Merrill, head volleyball coach at Brevard High School, has resigned, according to a report in the Asheville Citizen-Times. Merrill served as head coach there for five seasons, and the team’s record in the final two years was 38-15, the best in the history of Brevard volleyball. The Blue Devils went 18-7 during the 2013…
