SYLVA—A Smoky Mountain High School baseball pitcher had one of the most memorable seasons in recent memory and has earned a performance listing in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Record Book. Mark Thompson of Smoky Mountain recorded 15 pitching victories against a single loss as his team advanced the whole way…
July 21, 2012 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, Lexi Davis of Porter Ridge High School in Indian Trail was named the ESPNHS National Softball Player of the Year. Davis was 33-1 as a pitcher for Porter Ridge and led her team to the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 4-A softball…
TRINITY—Wheatmore High School has announced a couple of changes in its athletic department, according to a report in the High Point Enterprise. Rick Halo has been named as the school’s new athletic director and Pete Kilcullen has been selected as the new women’s varsity basketball coach. Halo replaces veteran Eugene Everhart, who…
Merritt Wilkinson of Western Alamance High School had an outstanding softball season as a senior in the spring, and her performance enables her to have several listings in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association on-line record book. Wilkinson batted .616 for the season, collecting 45 hits in 73 official at-bats, and had 15 doubles…
RALEIGH—Enloe High School has announced that Patrick Paye is the school’s new athletic director and will also assume the duties as head men’s basketball coach, according to various media reports including HighSchoolOT.com. Paye comes to Enloe from Knightdale and before that served as an assistant basketball coach at Elizabeth City State University. He…
Chris Munnelly, who just completed an excellent career with the University of North Carolina Tar Heel baseball program, has embarked upon his professional baseball career. Munnelly, who worked for a year in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association offices as an intern while in school at UNC, signed with the Houston Astros…
GREENSBORO—Page High School will have a new softball coach during the spring of 2014, but his name might ring a bell with football fans. Ethan Albright, who played for 16 years in the National Football League after a standout career at Grimsley and the University of North Carolina, will serve as the head…
July 15, 1996 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, Glaxo Wellcome announced a gift of $100,000 to the North Carolina High School Athletic Association for the NCHSAA Hall of Fame. The donation, made over a four-year period, enabled the Association to create a special endowment to subsidize the activities of the Hall of…
INDIANAPOLIS, IN— Two new rules regarding the use of electronic devices in high school softball were among the five changes approved by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Softball Rules Committee at its June meeting in Indianapolis. All rules changes were subsequently approved by the NFHS Board of Directors. With the…
CHARLESTON—The North Carolina high school all-stars won one and tied one in the seventh annual Clash of the Carolinas soccer matches at Blackbaud Stadium. In the men’s game, North Carolina topped South Carolina by a 2-0 count and the women’s game ended in a 3-3 tie. Gary O’Neill of Wilmington Ashley, who…
