HOPE MILLS—Former South View High School head women’s softball coach Eddie Dees recently received an important honor. Dees, one of the state’s most successful coaches in softball during a 25-year coaching career, was recognized as the softball field at South View was officially dedicated as Eddie Dees Field in ceremonies before South View hosted Fayetteville…
HAMPSTEAD—Bryan Davis has stepped down as head football coach at Topsail High School, according to a report in the Port City News. Davis has been the head coach at Topsail for the last six years. According to the report, he plans to stay at the school in his teaching capacity. Topsail’s teams posted overall records…
May 1, 2003 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, Anna Evans of Lumberton and Drew Williamson of Cummings received the Pat Best Memorial Awards as the NCHSAA Athletes of the Year for the 2002-03 academic year. Williamson was a top player in both football and basketball, throwing for 3,118 yards as a quarterback…
Millbrook, Jones Senior To ReceiveMajor Awards At Annual Meeting CHAPEL HILL – Two major awards will be presented to schools at the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Annual Meeting on Thursday at the Smith Center on the University of North Carolina campus. Millbrook High School in Raleigh is the seventh annual winner of the…
HICKORY — Andy Poplin has been named by the Hickory Public Schools Board of Education to serve as the new men’s head basketball coach for Hickory High School, according to a press release by the school system.. Poplin’s record is among the most notable among his peer. While serving as the head men’s basketball coach…
April 30, 2012 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, Takeisha J. Smith of St. Pauls High School and Jaret Grady of South Lenoir High School were named winners of the third annual Charles Adams Endowed Scholarships awarded by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. The scholarships are made possible through the generosity…
AAA SCHOLAR-ATHLETE WINNERS NAMED BY NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION CHAPEL HILL—Over 28,000 individual awards have been given by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association to student-athletes for their achievements in the classroom as well as on the playing court or athletic field. The NCHSAA made the awards in its AAA Scholar-Athlete program,…
INDIANAPOLIS— High school swimmers in the breaststroke event will now be permitted to execute a single butterfly kick on the start or turn at any time prior to the first breaststroke kick. “It was extremely difficult for officials to observe and consistently judge the initiation of the arm stroke on the start and turns,” said…
HICKORY—St. Stephens High School in Catawba County has named Wayne Hicks as its new head football coach, according to various media reports including the Hickory Daily Record. Hicks has been the defensive coordinator at Hickory High for the last five seasons and prior to that was head football coach at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory from…
April 29, 2012 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, James Kornegay of North Duplin High School was named the 2012 winner of the Gainey Student Scholarship Award. The Gainey Student Scholarship Awards are available to NCHSAA member schools in counties having a poverty rate of 20 percent or more for children 17 and…
