January 11, 2002 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, Brittany Boyce of East Rutherford connected on nine three-point field goals in a women’s basketball game against West Lincoln. Boyce’s performance was just two three-pointers short of the NCHSAA record. January 11, 2005 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, Ty Carter of…
Gaston County’s newest high school has named its first athletic director. Terry Radford, the current athletic director at Hunter Huss, will be the athletic director at the new Stuart Cramer High School. Stuart Cramer will open in the fall of 2013 and Radford will assume his new duties on January 22, according to Dennis Noble…
CANTON—Pisgah High School has announced its new head football coach, according to the Asheville Citizen-Times. Brett Chappell, who for the last eight seasons has been the head coach at East Henderson, has been named to head the Black Bears program. Chappell was 67-35 during his stint at East and his team won the Western North…
CARY—Long-time game official Leo Pegram died on Monday at the age of 80. Pegram officiated both basketball and football for 43 years for the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. Born in Chatham County and a graduate of Apex High School, he was employed by the North Carolina Department of Transportation for 40 years before…
INDIANAPOLIS— The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS), in partnership with USA Baseball, has developed “Fundamentals of Coaching Baseball” – the latest online sport-specific course in its Coach Education Program available at www.nfhslearn.com. Along with instructional demonstrations from Washington Nationals players and team manager Davey Johnson, the course is designed for interscholastic baseball…
DEEP RUN—Tim Jenkins is leaving South Lenoir High School to take a teaching and coaching job at East Duplin, according to a report in the Kinston Free Press. Jenkins had gone to South Lenoir from Wallace-Rose Hill to take the head baseball position, and then later was appointed as the head varsity football coach as…
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January 8, 1982 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, Bill Bost of Bandys High School recorded his 400th coaching victory as his Bandys men’s team defeated Cherryville 61-50, led by Vernon Odom’s 25 points. For several years, Bost coached both the men’s and women’s varsity teams simultaneously at Bandys and he is a…
WADESBORO—Veteran high school and college football coach Ed Emory passed away on Friday at his home at the age of 75. Among his stops as a successful high school coach were Brevard, Anson and Richmond Senior. He coached collegiately at Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, Clemson and East Carolina, leading the ECU Pirates program from 1980…
January 7, 1992 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, Columbia’s Michelle Richardson hauled in an astronomical 36 rebounds in a women’s basketball game against Cape Hatteras. January 7,2004 On this day in history in the NCHSAA, long-time coach Russell Blunt died at the age of 95. He had coached in six different decades…
