JACKSONVILLE— Two outstanding individuals will be inducted into the Jacksonville-Onslow Sports Commission Hall of Fame on Saturday at the Jacksonville Country Club, according to the Jacksonville Daily News. Former Lejeune High School and Northside-Jacksonville High School athletic director Mike Smith and former White Oak standout athlete and major league baseball player Chad Fonville will join…
April 26, 1979 The new Simon F. Terrell Building in Chapel Hill, the home offices of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, is formally dedicated. The new building located on Finley Golf Course on the University of North Carolina campus had 7,671 square feet of office space at the time of its opening.
FOURTH ANNUAL ADAMS SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS ANNOUNCEDFOR NCHSAA CHAPEL HILL – Hayden Rudd of Pinecrest High School and Robbie Tomasic of Durham Jordan have been named winners of the fourth annual Charles Adams Endowed Scholarships awarded by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. The two outstanding student-athletes will be recognized at the NCHSAA’s Annual Meeting on…
GASTONIA—Forestview High School’s men’s golf team had a tremendous performance early in the regular season that will garner a place in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association records for non-state tournament play. The Forestview golf team recorded a four-player team score of 270 for an 18-hole match on Monday, March 18, at the Crowder’s…
FUQUAY-VARINA—Fuquay-Varina has named Gail Siemer as its new women’s head basketball coach, according to various media reports including highschoolot.com. Siemer, a native of Severna Park, Maryland, is a 2002 graduate of Shepherd University in West Virginia, where she played basketball and later was an assistant coach there for four years. She is currently on staff…
April 25, 2006 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, Carolyn Rogers of Perquimans and Hal Capps of Western Alamance were named the inaugural winners of the Toby Webb Coach of the Year awards. They were presented their awards at the NCHSAA Annual Meeting, which was held in May at the Progress Energy Center…
HOKE COUNTY COACH WINS COURAGE AWARD FROM NCHSAA CHAPEL HILL—A veteran baseball coach will be honored by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association at its 2013 Annual Meeting with the NCHSAA’s A.J. “Tony” Simeon Courage Award. Mike Ray of Hoke County High School will…
NORTH WILKESBORO— The Wilkes Board of Education has approved naming Chris Skabo to the new position of coordinator of county athletics and healthful living, according to various media reports. Skabo currently serves as athletic director and head men’s varsity basketball coach at West Wilkes High School, and he has served a four-year term on the…
HILLSBOROUGH—Two Orange County rivals will battle today (Wednesday) in both baseball and softball, but they will all be joining together for a great cause. Cedar Ridge will travel to Orange, with games starting at 4:30, with the cause all for cancer awareness. Orange baseball coach Dean Dease reports that players on all teams will be…
April 24, 2003 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, Athens Drive launched five home runs in a single inning against Apex in high school baseball action. The Jaguars outlasted Apex 18-17 in a NCHSAA slugfest in which Athens Drive hit a total of eight round-trippers in the game. East Rutherford set the NCHSAA…
