PORTER RIDGE STAR EARNS GATORADE® SOFTBALL AWARD CHICAGO — In its 27th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with ESPNHS, has announced Lexi Davis of Porter Ridge High School as its 2011-12 Gatorade North Carolina Softball Player of the Year. Davis is the first Gatorade Softball Player…
FORMER NCHSAA MVP TAKEN IN NBA DRAFT A former Most Valuable Player in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state basketball championships was chosen in the National Basketball Association draft on Thursday night. Darius Johnson-Odom, who played collegiately for Marquette University, was taken in the second round by the Dallas Mavericks. His rights…
GREENSBORO— Several former high school athletic standouts and a couple of great high school coaches have been named to the newest class of the Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame was created in 2005 and will have 88 members after this class, the eighth in the history of the program, is…
PRINCETON— Princeton High School has named Derrick Minor as its new head football coach, according to various media reports including the Raleigh News and Observer. Minor is a 1997 graduate of Western Alamance High School who earned his undergraduate degree from North Carolina A&T State University and a masters in education from Elon. The 33-year-old…
FORMER NCHSAA CHAMPION MAKES U.S. OLYMPIC DIVING TEAM Former North Carolina High School Athletic Association diving champion Nick McCrory has added another major achievement to his list. McCrory, both the reigning Atlantic Coast Conference champion representing Duke University and the NCAA champion, qualified for the London Olympics in both the men’s individual 10-meter diving and…
MORGANTON— Joey Davis is retiring as the athletic director at Freedom High School, according to a report in the Morganton News-Herald. Davis has been the athletic director at Freedom for four years and has spent 25 years at the school, in addition to serving at Watauga and Clyde Erwin in Buncombe County. Davis is a…
2012-13 NFHS rulebooks for Football, Men’s Soccer, Volleyball, Cross-Country, and Cheerleading have been mailed to the Athletic Director at each school. Each of these head coaches should pick up their rulebook from the school in preparation for the 2012 fall season.
The new reigning national champion in professional golf is a former North Carolina High School Athletic Association golf champion. Webb Simpson made big news in the world of golf recently as the PGA golfer won the U.S. Open championship— and the top prize of $1,440,000– at the Olympic Club in San Francisco. It was Simpson’s…
SALISBURY TO HONOR COACHING LEGENDS SALISBURY — Salisbury High School will honor 11 coaching legends for their achievements, according to the Salisbury Post. The 11 coaching greats will be honored on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the auditorium at Salisbury High School. They coached either at Salisbury, Boyden or J.C. Price in Salisbury. The coaches…
JACKSONVILLE— Jacksonville High School head men’s basketball coach Mike Ark is heading back to his home state, according to the Jacksonville Daily News. Ark, who grew up in Ohio, is leaving the Onslow County school have six years as the head basketball coach. He will take over the same job at Solon High School in…
